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B-203355 1 (1982-02-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkbs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: / / 4}-203355 DATE: February 23, 1982 MATTER OF: D!I EST: Eugene IT, Kopf - Ambulance Service Expense The cost of ambulance service to take an employee to a hospital in seattle, Washington, where he became ill en route home to Washington, D.C., frori a temporary duty station may not be paid by the Government, IWhile in certain cases ambulance service necessary to return an ill employee from a temporary duty station to his home may be paid by the Government, in this case the ambulance was used to tnke the employee to the hospital, not to his home. This decision is in response to a request for an advance decision concerning payment of the cost of ambulance services required by an Air Force civilian employee hospitalized en route from a temporary duty location to his official duty station. As is explained below, the Government may not pay for the ambulance service in these circumstances. The question was submitted by the Accounting and Finance Officer, 76th Air Lift Division (HAC), Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C, It has been assigned control number 81-14 by the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee. On December 16, 1980, the employee involved, Mr. Eugene H. Kopf, was traveling from Seoul, Korea, a temporary duty station, to his permanent duty station in Washington, D.C. lie became ill en route in Seattle, Washington. Due to lis illness, he traveled by ambulance from the Seattle Airport to Riverton General Hospital near Seattle where he remained until December 23, 1980. He resumed his trip home to the. Washington, DC., area at Government expense on December 24, 1980. The Accounting and Finance Officer Indicates that Mr. Kopf seeks payment from the Government of the entire ambulance bill, $118.40, although his medical insurance will pay 75 percent of the bill. Under 5 U.S.C. § 5702(b) and implementing regulations, an employee who, while traveling on official business away from his designated post of duty becomeE incapneitated by illness or injury not due to his own misconduct, is entitled to per diem allowance and appropriate transportation expenses to his desig- nated post of duty, or home. 9*. ..-..j~t - *fl. tqr~ s ~-r .. . .*. 11P. , p . . . .I I 1 DECISION THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THLI UNITMO STATEB WASHINr'TO N, 0,0, 20548 21.1 FILE:

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