Senate Health & Welfare advances H.96 to raise CON threshold to $10 million, adds state-project notice

Montpelier — The Senate Health & Welfare Committee on April 8 voted to report H.96 favorably, advancing an amendment that raises the monetary threshold for certificate-of-need (CON) review to $10,000,000 and makes several structural changes to Vermonts CON law.

The amendment, offered as draft 1.3 by Jen Furby of the Office of Legislative Counsel, combines separate hospital and non-hospital provisions into a single definition so all "health care facilities" are treated the same under the monetary threshold. "We are looking at an amendment to H 96, which is an act relating to increasing the monetary thresholds for certificates of need," Furby said while walking the committee through the draft.

Under the amendment, ambulatory surgical centers would fall under the same $10,000,000 threshold that applies to other health care facilities after the stand-alone ambulatory-surgical provision is…