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Senate amends H.96 to consolidate certificate-of-need monetary thresholds; committee gives straw-poll approval
Summary
A legislative committee reviewed the Senate'proposed amendments to H.96, which consolidate monetary thresholds for certificates of need across health care facilities, remove a hospital-specific subsection and fold ambulatory surgical centers into a single definition; the panel gave a straw-poll approval ahead of the bill's next action.
A legislative committee reviewed Senate amendments to H.96 on increasing monetary thresholds for certificates of need and gave a straw-poll signal of support ahead of the bill's next action.
The committee heard from Jen Carby of the Office of Legislative Council, who presented a markup showing that the Senate'proposed language removed a separate hospital subsection and a separate line for ambulatory surgical centers, instead placing all facilities under a single statutory provision. "We took out the reference to a healthcare facility other than a hospital and then deleted the whole subsection on hospitals," Carby said, adding that ambulatory surgical centers remain defined in statute and are included in the broader…
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