General Bill
Health Care:
Provides definitions applicable to provisions regulating hospitals and other licensed facilities; specifies that only the applicant is entitled to an administrative hearing on its application; establishes licensing criteria for cardiac programs; requires reporting; provides a nursing-home-bed need methodology that has a goal of maintaining a specified district average occupancy rate; revises provisions relating to health-care-related projects subject to review for a certificate of need; deletes hospice inpatient facilities from the projects subject to review; deletes shared services contracts or projects from expedited review; modifies circumstances requiring transfer of a certificate of need; provides expedited review for replacement of a nursing home and for relocation of a portion of a nursing home's beds; adds or revises exemptions for addition of acute care beds, hospital-based distinct part skilled nursing unit beds, comprehensive medical rehabilitation beds, Level II or Level III neonatal intensive care beds, mental health services beds, and nursing home beds; adds exemptions for conversion of mental health services beds, replacement of a statutory rural hospital, establishment of a Level II neonatal intensive care unit, replacement of a licensed nursing home, consolidation or combination of nursing homes or transfer of beds between nursing homes by providers that operate multiple nursing homes, and establishment of certain adult open-heart programs; deletes exemptions relating to establishment of certain specialty hospitals and a satellite facility for new medical technologies; allows a consolidated audit of a parent company; provides that the acquisition of a licensed hospital includes acquisition of any pending certificate-of-need application; increases fees to fund the activities of the certificate-of-need program; eliminates the right of existing health care facilities to initiate or intervene in an administrative hearing pertaining to the issuance or denial of a certificate of need; provides that without agency action within a specified time period the recommended order of the Division of Administrative Hearings becomes the final order; removes the requirement that the court must find a complete absence of a judiciable issue of law or fact prior to awarding attorney's fees and costs; requires a hospital that is the losing party in a judicial review to pay the reasonable attorney's fees and costs of the prevailing hospital; provides quality outcome measure reporting requirements and standards for cardiac programs; establishes criteria for which the imposed moratorium on certificates of need for nursing homes does not apply; provides a grandfather clause for cardiac programs; includes the additional beds at certain acute care hospitals in high growth counties in the inventory of hospital beds used in the calculation of the fixed-bed-need pool for acute care hospitals.
Effective Date:
This act shall take effect July 1, 2003
Last Event:
Died, Reference Deferred on Friday, May 2, 2003 6:15 PM
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PCB HC 03-01 recommended by:
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PCB HC 03-01 recommended by:
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PCB HC 03-01 recommended by:
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Bill #:
HB 1105
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Subject:
Health Care Facilities
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Relationship:
Compare
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Bill #:
CS/CS/SB 1252
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Subject:
Health Care Facilities
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Relationship:
Compare
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Bill #:
CS/SB 2132
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Subject:
Certificates of Need
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Relationship:
Compare
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Event:
H Died, Reference Deferred
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Time:
05/02/2003 - 6:15 PM
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Event:
H 1st Reading
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Time:
04/24/2003 - 5:43 PM
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Event:
H Filed timely
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Time:
04/24/2003 - 5:43 PM
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Committee:
Health Care
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