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GA HB1032
Bill
Status
Engrossed
3/12/2020
Primary Sponsor
James Hatchett
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AI Summary
- Creates "behavioral rehabilitation joint ventures" allowing a public or private acute care hospital with vacant beds to partner with an institution for mental diseases to manage up to 16 of the hospital's vacant beds as behavioral rehabilitation swing beds for patient treatment
- Requires the Department of Community Health to provide Medicaid reimbursement at 100% of allowable amounts for patients treated under a behavioral rehabilitation joint venture, with payments beginning in the second year after the venture is established
- Exempts contributions received by a behavioral rehabilitation joint venture from counting against the $4 million aggregate limit cap under the rural tax credit program (Code Section 48-7-29.20)
- Removes a specific certificate of need (CON) consideration for rural hospitals seeking to increase bed capacity or use unused beds exclusively for behavioral health or developmental disabilities services, including through bed leases to behavioral health providers
- Exempts ambulatory surgery facilities that perform procedures only in non-sterile procedure rooms (not operating rooms) and hold a CON exemption letter from operating room physical plant and construction standards, subjecting them instead only to standards applicable to facilities that do not use operating rooms with general anesthesia
Legislative Description
Health; certificate of need laws; provisions
Last Action
Senate Withdrawn & Recommitted
6/15/2020
Full Bill Text
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