CS/CS/HB 7 - Summary

• Excludes general hospitals from certificate-of-need (CON) review requirements, requiring only simplified application materials (project description and service areas identified by zip code).

• Removes osteopathic acute care hospitals from CON requirements and eliminates the rural hospital replacement facilities statute.

• Deletes notification requirements for health care facilities to report termination of services, bed additions, or bed delicensure to the Agency for Health Care Administration.

• Requires hospitals providing pediatric cardiac catheterization, pediatric open-heart surgery, organ transplantation, neonatal intensive care, psychiatric services, or comprehensive medical rehabilitation to meet specified agency-adopted minimum licensure standards.

• Effective date: July 1, 2017.