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HB 2177 Certificate of public need; eliminates regional health planning agencies.

Introduced by: Robert D. Orrock, Sr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Certificate of public need. Amends the definition of "project" for which a certificate of public need is required to include capital expenditures of $15 million or more by or on behalf of a medical care facility other than a general hospital. Currently, all capital expenditures of $15 million or more by or on behalf of any medical care facility constitute a project for which a certificate of public need is required. The bill also provides that capital expenditures of $5 million or more by a general hospital shall be registered with the Commissioner of Health.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Certificate of public need. Eliminates regional health planning agencies and adds an exception to the definition of project to exclude (i) an increase in the total number of non-nursing home beds in an existing general hospital, psychiatric hospital, or rehabilitation hospital or operating rooms in an existing general hospital; (ii) the introduction of open heart surgery at a hospital that registers the new service and performed at least 1,100 adult inpatient or outpatient cardiac catheterizations, including at least 400 therapeutic catheterizations, or discharged at least 800 patients with the principal diagnosis of ischemic heart disease during the 12 months immediately preceding such registration; and (iii) the introduction of intermediate- or specialty-level neonatal special care services at an existing medical care facility that registers the new service and delivered more than 1,000 infants in the 12 months immediately preceding such registration.