Kentucky Revised Statutes Title XXVI. Occupations and Professions § 309.412.License required to provide or hold oneself out as providing home medical equipment and services; exemptions

(a) A person licensed or registered in this state under any other law who is engaging in the profession or occupation for which he or she is licensed or registered;

(b) Health care practitioners who lawfully prescribe or order home medical equipment and services, or who use home medical equipment and services to treat their patients;

(c) Home health agencies that do not engage in the provision of home medical equipment and services;

(d) Hospitals that provide home medical equipment and services only as an integral part of patient care;

(e) Manufacturers and wholesale distributors of home medical equipment who do not sell, lease, or rent home medical equipment directly to a patient;

(f) Pharmacies that are engaged in the sale, lease, or rental of home medical equipment and services;

(g) An employee of a person licensed under KRS 309.400 to 309.422;

(h) Hospice programs that do not involve the sale, lease, or rental of home medical equipment and services;

(i) Skilled nursing facilities that do not involve the sale, lease, or rental of home medical equipment and services;

(j) Government agencies, including fire districts which provide emergency medical services; and

(k) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, an out-of-state provider whose primary business is the manufacture, distribution, or both, of highly specialized equipment who ships that equipment into this state if that equipment is not provided by a licensed Kentucky home medical equipment and services provider.