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Office of Health Strategy outlines CON changes, seeks clearer rules and expedited reviews
Summary
The Office of Health Strategy told the Public Health Committee the agency needs clearer statutory authority to set CON policies and use internal market reports, and proposed an expedited 30‑day review for narrow cases of demonstrated unmet need.
HARTFORD — The Office of Health Strategy (OHS) asked the Public Health Committee on March 24 to approve a series of changes to Connecticut’s certificate-of-need (CON) law aimed at giving the agency clearer tools and a faster path for certain reviews.
Commissioner Deidre Gifford, testifying for OHS, described a package she said would improve transparency and efficiency. “First of all, it would allow OHS to establish policies and procedures as a prelude to, regulation for the certificate of need statute,” Gifford told the committee. She also proposed tightening the statute’s definition of “termination of services” and adding an expedited CON review route when the agency or an applicant identifies a “significant unmet need.”
Nut graf: The testimony highlighted longstanding concerns about lengthy CON timelines and inconsistent outcomes. Gifford said the median time from filing to final action has fallen since she took office, but that clarifying…
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