GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
S D
SENATE DRS75096-LB-299A* (03/23)
Short Title: Equal Treatment Under SMFP. |
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Sponsors: |
Senator Hartsell. |
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ENSURE EQUAL TREATMENT OF HEALTH SERVICE APPLICANTS UNDER THE STATE MEDICAL FACILITIES PLAN.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 131E-183(b) reads as rewritten:
(b) The Department
is authorized to adopt rules for the review of particular types of applications
that will be used in addition to those criteria outlined in subsection (a) of
this section and may vary according to the purpose for which a particular
review is being conducted or the type of health service reviewed. No such
rule adopted by the Department shall require an academic medical center
teaching hospital, as defined by the State Medical Facilities Plan, to
demonstrate that any facility or service at another hospital is being
appropriately utilized in order for that academic medical center teaching
hospital to be approved for the issuance of a certificate of need to develop
any similar facility or service. All such rules, and all policies and
need determinations in the State Medical Facilities Plan, shall apply equally
to all applications for a particular type of health service."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.