Bill Text: NC S505 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Equal Treatment Under SMFP

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-05 - Ref To Com On Health Care [S505 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2011-S505-Amended.html

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2011

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SENATE BILL 505*

 

 

Short Title:        Equal Treatment Under SMFP.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senators Hartsell;  Brock and Tillman.
Referred to:	Health Care.

April 5, 2011

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.