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HB879

Certificate of public need; revises the Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need Program.

Status:
Killed

Chief Patron:
Mark Sickles (D)

Session:
2020 Regular Session

Summary

As Passed House of Origin. Certificate of public need.

Revises the Medical Care Facilities Certificate of Public Need Program. The bill (i) removes from the list of reviewable medical care facilities specialized centers or clinics or that portion of a physician's office developed for the provision of lithotripsy, magnetic source imaging, or nuclear medicine imaging; (ii) removes from the definition of project introduction into an existing medical care facility of any new lithotripsy, magnetic source imaging, or obstetrical service that the facility has never provided or has not provided in the previous 12 months and addition by an existing medical care facility of any medical equipment for the provision of lithotripsy and magnetic source imaging; (iii) creates a new process for registration of projects exempted from the definition of project by the bill; (iv) renames the State Medical Facilities Plan as the State Health Services Plan and establishes a State Health Services Plan task force to provide recommendations related to the content of the State Health Services Plan; (v) clarifies the content of the application for a certificate; (vi) reduces the timeline for a person to be made party to the case for good cause from 80 calendar days to four days following completion of the review and submission of recommendations related to an application; (vii) requires the Commissioner of Health to condition issuance of a certificate upon the agreement of the applicant to provide care to individuals who are eligible for benefits under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq.), Title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq.), and 10 U.S.C. § 1071 et seq. and permits the Commissioner to condition the issuance of a certificate on the agreement of the applicant to provide specialty medical services in addition to existing options for conditioning certificates; (viii) requires every certificate holder to develop a financial assistance policy that includes specific eligibility criteria and procedures for applying for charity care, which shall be provided to a patient at the time of admission or discharge or at the time services are provided, included with any billing statements sent to uninsured patients, posted conspicuously in public areas of the medical care facility for which the certificate was issued and posted on a website maintained by the certificate holder; (ix) eliminates the requirement that a person willfully fail, refuse, or neglect to comply with a plan of correction to be subject to a civil penalty so that any failure, refusal, or neglecting to comply with a plan of correction may subject the person to a civil penalty; and (x) provides that the Commissioner may consider any changes in the circumstances of the certificate holder resulting from changes in the financing or delivery of health care services, including changes to the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance services, and any other specific circumstances of the certificate holder when determining whether conditions imposed on a certificate continue to be appropriate. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/07/2020 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101264D
  • 01/07/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
  • 01/17/2020 - House: Assigned HWI sub: Health
  • 01/30/2020 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB879)
  • 02/03/2020 - House: House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  • 02/03/2020 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
  • 02/03/2020 - House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
  • 02/04/2020 - House: Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
  • 02/04/2020 - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments (22-Y 0-N)
  • 02/04/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
  • 02/05/2020 - House: House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  • 02/05/2020 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
  • 02/05/2020 - House: Reported from Appropriations with amendments (20-Y 1-N)
  • 02/06/2020 - House: Read first time
  • 02/07/2020 - House: Read second time
  • 02/07/2020 - House: Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions amendments agreed to
  • 02/07/2020 - House: Committee on Appropriations amendments agreed to
  • 02/07/2020 - House: Engrossed by House as amended HB879E
  • 02/07/2020 - House: Printed as engrossed 20101264D-E
  • 02/10/2020 - House: Engrossed bill reprinted 20101264D-E
  • 02/10/2020 - House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 1-N)
  • 02/10/2020 - House: VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-N)
  • 02/11/2020 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB879E)
  • 02/11/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 02/11/2020 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
  • 02/20/2020 - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 5-N 1-A)
  • 02/20/2020 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 20108642D-S1
  • 02/20/2020 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
  • 02/25/2020 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB879S1)
  • 02/25/2020 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (12-Y 4-N)
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Read third time
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20108642D-S1
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Reading of amendments waived
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB879S1
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute with amendments (37-Y 3-N)
  • 02/26/2020 - House: Senate substitute with amendments rejected by House 20108642D-S1 (0-Y 94-N)
  • 02/26/2020 - House: VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 94-N)
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Senate insisted on amendments (40-Y 0-N)
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Senate requested conference committee
  • 02/27/2020 - House: House acceded to request
  • 02/27/2020 - House: Conferees appointed by House
  • 02/27/2020 - House: Delegates: Sickles, Hope, Davis
  • 02/27/2020 - Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
  • 02/27/2020 - Senate: Senators: Barker, Lewis, Locke
  • 03/12/2020 - House: No further action taken
  • 03/12/2020 - House: Failed to pass in House

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