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HB 413 Medical care facilities; exempts facilities performing outpatient or ambulatory ophthalmic surgery.

Introduced by: Harry R. Purkey | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Certificate of Public Need; exemption of certain facilities performing outpatient or ambulatory ophthalmic surgery. Exempts from the requirements for obtaining a certificate of public need prior to building, obtaining licensure, and opening a covered medical care facility, any specialized centers or clinics or portions of physicians' offices developed for the provision of outpatient or ambulatory ophthalmic surgery upon meeting the following conditions: (i) providing annual charity care to the extent that, if charges had been levied for such charity care, the funds generated would have equaled two percent of the net profit for the relevant year or, in the event the specialized center or clinic or that portion of a physician's office developed for the provision of outpatient or ambulatory ophthalmic surgery has failed to deliver such charity care in any year, contributing an amount to the Virginia Indigent Health Care Trust Fund that would equal two percent of the net profit for the relevant year after subtracting the charity care that was delivered, if any; and (ii) submitting documentation of accreditation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, the Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Care, Inc., or the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities, Inc. The Boards of Health and Medical Assistance Services are required to promulgate emergency regulations in a second enactment clause.


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