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2002 SESSION

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HB 885 Medical care facilities certificate of public need; spec. services.

Introduced by: Phillip A. Hamilton | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Regulation of specialty services. Removes specialty services from the certificate of public need requirements so long as such facilities participate in Virginia Medicaid and do not consider the ability of their patients to pay when providing treatment. Specialty services are defined as any specialized center or clinic or that portion of a physician's office developed for the provision of computed tomographic (CT) scanning, lithotripsy, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomographic (PET) scanning, radiation therapy, or nuclear medicine imaging. The Board of Health must license specialty services; however, deemed status will be accorded for facilities accredited by the American College of Radiology or the American College of Radiation Oncology or another accrediting agency approved by the Board. In addition, specialty services will be required to contribute and be eligible to receive payments from the Indigent Health Care Trust Fund in the same manner as hospitals. The Board and Director of Medical Assistance Services (the administrators of the Trust Fund) will be required to report by December 1, 2003, on the results of this new requirement. Enactment clauses allow specialty services to make capital investments and other expenditures in order to plan the implementation of a facility upon enactment of this provision; however, no specialty service can initiate operation without licensure. The Boards of Health and Medical Assistance Services must promulgate emergency regulations.


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