VT H0096

Capital expenditure threshold for non-hospital health care facilities requiring a certificate of need increases from $1,500,000 to $10,000,000

Diagnostic and therapeutic equipment purchase threshold rises from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 for non-hospitals

Annual operating expense threshold for new health care services or technology increases from $500,000 to $3,000,000 for non-hospitals

Conceptual development phase certificate of need threshold increases from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000, with pre-application expenditure limit rising to $10,000,000

Hospitals are removed from separate certificate of need requirements, and ambulatory surgical center provisions are repealed; emergency/non-emergency ground ambulance services and State-owned or State-funded health care projects are excluded from certificate of need requirements