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1998 SESSION

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HB 869 Medical care facilities certificates of public need.

Introduced by: H. Morgan Griffith | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Medical facilities certificates of public need. Modifies the provision exempting certain nursing home projects from the requirement to obtain a certificate of public need when such facilities meet all of certain strict criteria. This bill removes the requirement that the facility meet all of the conditions, allowing the exempted facility to meet only one of the criteria and authorizes a freestanding nursing home facility which is not associated with a hospital or part of a long-term care community having multiple levels of care to be exempted, if (i) such nursing home has a licensed bed capacity of less than 60 beds on July 1, 1998, (ii) all of the beds in such nursing home are certified to receive individuals eligible for medical assistance services, (iii) the nursing facility project is planned to increase the licensed bed capacity of the facility to not more than 60 such beds, (iv) all of the new nursing home beds will seek certification for reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid, and (v) the projected allocation of licensed nursing home beds provided in the State Medical Facilities Plan will not be reduced through the expansion of the number of nursing home beds in the exempted facility. Any project for which a certificate is issued pursuant to this exemption will not be considered an incomplete project by the Commissioner when determining future allocations of beds within the planning district of the project.


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