Bill Text: MI SB0672 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Health facilities: certificate of need; requirement to obtain a certificate of need for air ambulance, increase in psychiatric beds, and certain psychiatric programs; modify and modify amount for covered capital expenditures. Amends sec. 22203 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.22203). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0669'19, SB 0671'19
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2020-12-30 - Pocket Veto 01/05/2021 [SB0672 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-SB0672-Enrolled.html
state of michigan
100th Legislature
Regular session of 2020
Introduced by Senator
VanderWall
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 672
AN ACT to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled “An act to protect and promote the public health; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the laws relating to public health; to provide for the prevention and control of diseases and disabilities; to provide for the classification, administration, regulation, financing, and maintenance of personal, environmental, and other health services and activities; to create or continue, and prescribe the powers and duties of, departments, boards, commissions, councils, committees, task forces, and other agencies; to prescribe the powers and duties of governmental entities and officials; to regulate occupations, facilities, and agencies affecting the public health; to regulate health maintenance organizations and certain third party administrators and insurers; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee; to provide for the levy of taxes against certain health facilities or agencies; to promote the efficient and economical delivery of health care services, to provide for the appropriate utilization of health care facilities and services, and to provide for the closure of hospitals or consolidation of hospitals or services; to provide for the collection and use of data and information; to provide for the transfer of property; to provide certain immunity from liability; to regulate and prohibit the sale and offering for sale of drug paraphernalia under certain circumstances; to provide for the implementation of federal law; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide for sanctions for violations of this act and local ordinances; to provide for an appropriation and supplements; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; to repeal certain parts of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates,” by amending section 22203 (MCL 333.22203), as amended by 2002 PA 619.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 22203. (1) “Addition” means adding to a health facility patient rooms, beds, and ancillary service areas, including, but not limited to, procedure rooms or fixed equipment, surgical operating rooms, therapy rooms or fixed equipment, or other accommodations.
(2) “Capital expenditure” means an expenditure for a single project, including cost of construction, engineering, and equipment that under generally accepted accounting principles is not properly chargeable as an expense of operation. Capital expenditure includes a lease or comparable arrangement by or on behalf of a health facility to obtain a health facility, licensed part of a health facility, or equipment for a health facility, if the actual purchase of a health facility, licensed part of a health facility, or equipment for a health facility would have been considered a capital expenditure under this part. Capital expenditure includes the cost of studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, and other activities essential to the acquisition, improvement, expansion, addition, conversion, modernization, new construction, or replacement of physical plant and equipment.
(3) “Certificate of need” means a certificate issued under this part authorizing a new health facility, a change in bed capacity, the initiation, replacement, or expansion of a covered clinical service, or a covered capital expenditure that is issued in accordance with this part.
(4) “Certificate of need review standard” or “review standard” means a standard approved by the commission.
(5) “Change in bed capacity” means 1 or more of the following:
(a) An increase in licensed hospital beds.
(b) An increase in licensed nursing home beds or hospital beds certified for long-term care.
(d) A change from 1 licensed use to a different licensed use.
(e) The physical relocation of beds from a licensed site to another geographic location.
(6) “Clinical” means directly pertaining to the diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation of an individual.
(7) “Clinical service area” means an area of a health facility, including related corridors, equipment rooms, ancillary service and support areas that house medical equipment, patient rooms, patient beds, diagnostic, operating, therapy, or treatment rooms or other accommodations related to the diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation of individuals receiving services from the health facility.
(8) “Commission” means the certificate of need commission created under section 22211.
(9) “Covered capital expenditure” means a capital expenditure of $10,000,000.00 or more, as adjusted annually by the department under section 22221(g), by a person for a health facility for a single project, excluding the cost of nonfixed medical equipment, that includes or involves the acquisition, improvement, expansion, addition, conversion, modernization, new construction, or replacement of a clinical service area.
(10) “Covered clinical service”, except as modified by the commission under section 22215, means 1 or more of the following:
(a) Initiation or expansion of 1 or more of the following services:
(i) Neonatal intensive care services or special newborn nursing services.
(ii) Open heart surgery.
(iii) Extrarenal organ transplantation.
(b) Initiation, replacement, or expansion of 1 or more of the following services:
(i) Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.
(ii) Megavoltage radiation therapy.
(iii) Positron emission tomography.
(iv) Surgical services provided in a freestanding surgical outpatient facility, an ambulatory surgery center certified under title XVIII, or a surgical department of a hospital licensed under part 215 and offering inpatient or outpatient surgical services.
(v) Cardiac catheterization.
(vi) Fixed and mobile magnetic resonance imager services.
(vii) Fixed and mobile computerized tomography scanner services.
(viii) Until June 1, 2021, air ambulance services.
(d) Initiation, replacement, or expansion of a service not listed in this subsection, but designated as a covered clinical service by the commission under section 22215(1)(a).
(11)
“Fixed equipment” means equipment that is affixed to and constitutes a
structural component of a health facility, including, but not limited to,
mechanical or electrical systems, elevators, generators, pumps, boilers, and
refrigeration equipment.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 100th Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 669.
(b) Senate Bill No. 671.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor
