{"id": "HB788", "year": 2003, "term": "2003-2004", "title": "(New Title) transferring the duties of the health services planning and review board.", "narrative": "It was introduced on January 30, 2003 and referred to the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs committee. The committee held a public hearing on March 3, 2003. The majority recommended that the House pass it with changes, and the minority recommended that the House kill it, by a vote of 13\u20135. On March 13, 2003 the House voted to pass it with changes on a roll call 233\u2013122, then referred it on to the House Finance committee. The committee held a work session on March 21, 2003. The majority of the committee recommended that the House pass it with changes by a vote of 15\u20137. On April 10, 2003 the House voted to pass it with changes on a voice vote. It crossed to the Senate on April 24, 2003 and was referred to the Senate Insurance committee. The committee held a public hearing on May 13, 2003. The committee recommended that the Senate kill it. On May 22, 2003 the Senate rejected a motion to lay it on the table on a voice vote. On May 22, 2003 the Senate voted to kill it on a voice vote.", "stages": [{"label": "House Committee (Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs)", "hand": "H:committee", "text": "It was introduced on January 30, 2003 and referred to the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs committee. The committee held a public hearing on March 3, 2003. The majority recommended that the House pass it with changes, and the minority recommended that the House kill it, by a vote of 13\u20135.", "notes": []}, {"label": "On the House Floor", "hand": "H:floor", "text": "On March 13, 2003 the House voted to pass it with changes on a roll call 233\u2013122, then referred it on to the House Finance committee.", "notes": []}, {"label": "House Committee (Finance)", "hand": "H:committee", "text": "The committee held a work session on March 21, 2003. The majority of the committee recommended that the House pass it with changes by a vote of 15\u20137.", "notes": []}, {"label": "On the House Floor", "hand": "H:floor", "text": "On April 10, 2003 the House voted to pass it with changes on a voice vote.", "notes": []}, {"label": "Senate Committee (Insurance)", "hand": "S:committee", "text": "It crossed to the Senate on April 24, 2003 and was referred to the Senate Insurance committee. The committee held a public hearing on May 13, 2003. The committee recommended that the Senate kill it.", "notes": []}, {"label": "On the Senate Floor", "hand": "S:floor", "text": "On May 22, 2003 the Senate rejected a motion to lay it on the table on a voice vote. On May 22, 2003 the Senate voted to kill it on a voice vote.", "notes": ["Laying a bill on the table sets it aside without voting it down. A tabled bill can be taken back up later, but dies at the end of the session if it is not."]}], "notes": [], "vote_note": "3 of the floor votes on this bill were voice or division votes, which do not record how individual legislators voted.", "events": [{"date": "2003-01-30", "text": "Introduced and ref to Health HS&EA", "routine": false, "cite": "HJ 12"}, {"date": "2003-02-03", "text": "==CANCELLED(Storm)==Hearing Feb 18 10:00 RM205,LOB", "routine": false}, {"date": "2003-03-03", "text": "Rescheduled Hearing Mar 3 9:00 RM206,LOB", "routine": false}, {"date": "2003-03-04", "text": "Maj Report OTP/AM for Mar 13 (Vote 13-5;Reg<II>)", "routine": false}, {"date": "2003-03-04", "text": "Min Report ITL <OTP in Cal>", "routine": false}, {"date": "2003-03-04", "text": "Prop Maj Am{0489}(New Title); HC20, p479-488", "routine": false, "cite": "HC 20", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2003%5CNo%2020%20March%207%202003.pdf"}, {"date": "2003-03-13", "text": "Maj Am, AA VV; Passed with Am and ref to Finance RC(233-122); HJ24, p606-619", "routine": false, "cite": "HJ 24"}, {"date": "2003-03-21", "text": "Fin DivIII Subcom Work & Exec Sess Mar 21 10:00 RMs210-211,LOB <Rep Emerton>", "routine": false}, {"date": "2003-03-24", "text": "Fin Maj Report OTP/AM for Apr 10 (Vote 15-7;Reg)", "routine": false}, {"date": "2003-03-24", "text": "Fin Comm Am {0959}; HC31, p1045-1054", "routine": false, "cite": "HC 31", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2003%5CNo%2031%20April%204%202003.pdf"}, {"date": "2003-04-10", "text": "Fin Am, AA VV; Passed with Am VV", "routine": false, "cite": "HJ 34"}, {"date": "2003-04-24", "text": "Introduced and Ref. to Insurance", "routine": false, "cite": "SJ 14"}, {"date": "2003-05-13", "text": "Hearing; May 13, 2003, Roon 101, LOB, 9:45 a.m.; SC21", "routine": false, "cite": "SC 21", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/senate/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=Calendars%5C2003%5CSC%2021.pdf"}, {"date": "2003-05-16", "text": "Committee Report; Inexpedient to Legislate [05/22/03]; SC23", "routine": false, "cite": "SC 23", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/senate/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=Calendars%5C2003%5CSC%2023.pdf"}, {"date": "2003-05-22", "text": "Inexpedient to Legislate", "routine": false, "cite": "SJ 17"}, {"date": "2003-05-22", "text": "Sen. 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James Splaine (D)", "s": "splaine, james", "p": "D", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Joseph Stone (R)", "s": "stone, joseph", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. C Donald Stritch (R)", "s": "stritch, c donald", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Michael Whalley (R)", "s": "whalley, michael", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. David Hess (R)", "s": "hess, david", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. David Babson (R)", "s": "babson, david", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. J. Gail Barry (R)", "s": "barry, j. gail", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Ronald Belanger (R)", "s": "belanger, ronald", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Roger Berube (D)", "s": "berube, roger", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Franklin Bishop (R)", "s": "bishop, franklin", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Robert Brundige (R)", "s": "brundige, robert", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Kevin Camm (R)", "s": "camm, kevin", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Peter Cote (D)", "s": "cote, peter", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Vivian Desmarais (R)", "s": "desmarais, vivian", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Stephen DeStefano (D)", "s": "destefano, stephen", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Robert Dodge (R)", "s": "dodge, robert", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Cynthia Dokmo (R)", "s": "dokmo, cynthia", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. John Gibson (R)", "s": "gibson, john", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. John Gleason (R)", "s": "gleason, john", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Anne Grassie (D)", "s": "grassie, anne", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Margaret Hallyburton (R)", "s": "hallyburton, margaret", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Jane Kelley (D)", "s": "kelley, jane", "p": "D", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Rudolph Kobel (R)", "s": "kobel, rudolph", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Jane Langley (R)", "s": "langley, jane", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Bernard Luebkert (R)", "s": "luebkert, bernard", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. James MacKay (D)", "s": "mackay, james", "p": "D", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Marc Pappas (R)", "s": "pappas, marc", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Betsey Patten (R)", "s": "patten, betsey", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. John Thomas (R)", "s": "thomas, john", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Everett Weare (R)", "s": "weare, everett", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Fran Wendelboe (R)", "s": "wendelboe, fran", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Naida Kaen (D)", "s": "kaen, naida", "p": "D", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Thomas Varrell (R)", "s": "varrell, thomas", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Peter Bergin (R)", "s": "bergin, peter", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. David Bickford (R)", "s": "bickford, david", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Donald Carlson (R)", "s": "carlson, donald", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. 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The committee heard five hours of testimony both in support and opposition of the bill. It became apparent to the majority that the current system was restrictive and non-responsive to New Hampshire citizens. The amendment provides for the transfer of existing CON oversight to the Health and Human Services Office of Health, Planning and Medicare. Further, it provides improvements by instituting a review process of inpatient vs. outpatient care resulting in reduced bureaucracy, regulation and more efficient use of staff while guarding against over expansion of facilities in the state by certificate of review process. The committee agreed the bill, as amended, would provide for competition in the delivery and access to outpatient health services. The existing staff, relieved of the current over regulatory time drain, will be used to do more efficient long term health care planning and assessment as well as assuring improvements in quality of care issues. Based on consideration of the information received, the committee felt that the bill would help to ensure that all New Hampshire citizens have access to high quality, cost effective health care services. For years the Legislature has sought for oversight of this regulatory and planning process and this bill as amended allows for that. It also places inpatient and outpatient medical facilities on a level playing field, which is good for the citizens of New Hampshire."}, {"side": "Minority", "author": "Rep. Hilda W. Sokol", "committee": "Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs", "text": "The bill repeals the Healthcare and Review Board (CON) which was designed to regulate growth costs and to avoid duplication of facilities and inpatient and outpatient medical services. Repealing the CON could lead to proliferation of costly facilities and major equipment. We firmly believe that healthcare is a service and not a business. Thus, we have great concern that private health providers may take the profitable services and leave the \"money losers\" to hospitals. In lieu of the certificate of need, this bill would replace it with a certificate of review establishing different procedures for inpatient and outpatient facilities."}], "source": "House Calendar 19, 2003", "date": "2003-03-07", "dated": "printed", "cite": "HC 19", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2003%5CNo%2019%20March%207%202003.pdf"}, {"bill": "HB788", "title": "transferring the duties of the health services planning and review board", "majority_recommendation": "OUGHT TO PASS WITH AMENDMENT", "minority_recommendation": null, "reports": [{"side": "Committee", "author": "Rep. 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This total appropriation comes from non-general fund dollars, being raised by fees assessed to certain health care facilities and matching dollars from the federal government."}], "source": "House Calendar 31, 2003", "date": "2003-04-04", "dated": "printed", "cite": "HC 31", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2003%5CNo%2031%20April%204%202003.pdf"}], "docket_reports": [{"date": "2003-05-16", "dated": "recorded", "body": "S", "committee": "Insurance", "side": "", "recommendation": "INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE", "vote_yeas": null, "vote_nays": null, "amendment": "", "new_title": false, "cite": "SC 23", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/senate/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=Calendars%5C2003%5CSC%2023.pdf"}], "report_actions": [], "veto_message": null, "bill_note": null, "subject": "Public and Mental Health", "subject_source": "granite record", "house_committee": "Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs", "senate_committee": "Insurance", "lsr": "2003-689", "docket_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=689&sy=2003&txtsessionyear=2003&txtbillnumber=hb788&sortoption=billnumber", "documents": [{"label": "Bill status page", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/Bill_status.aspx?lsr=689&sy=2003&txtsessionyear=2003&txtbillnumber=hb788&sortoption=billnumber", "kind": "status"}, {"label": "Docket", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=689&sy=2003&txtsessionyear=2003&txtbillnumber=hb788&sortoption=billnumber", "kind": "docket"}, {"label": "HC 20", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2003%5CNo%2020%20March%207%202003.pdf", "kind": "record"}, {"label": "HC 31", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2003%5CNo%2031%20April%204%202003.pdf", "kind": "record"}, {"label": "SC 21", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/senate/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=Calendars%5C2003%5CSC%2021.pdf", "kind": "record"}, {"label": "SC 23", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/senate/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=Calendars%5C2003%5CSC%2023.pdf", "kind": "record"}, {"label": "House Calendar 19, 2003, committee report", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2003%5CNo%2019%20March%207%202003.pdf", "kind": "report"}], "amendments": [], "billtext": {"version": "As amended by the house", "title": "", "analysis": "This bill transfers the duties of the health services planning and review board to the department of health and human services. The bill increases the standard amounts for which a review is necessary.", "fiscal": {"lead": "", "tables": [{"caption": "", "raw": ["The Department of Health and Human Services stated this bill, as amended by the House ( House Amendment #2003-0959h), will have an indeterminable fiscal impact on state, county and local revenue and expenditures in FY 2004 and each year thereafter."]}]}, "body": "13mar03... 0489h\n\n10apr03... 0959h\n\nBe it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:\n\n1 Certificate of Review. RSA 151-C is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\nCHAPTER 151-C\n\nCERTIFICATE OF REVIEW OF PROPOSED\n\nNEW INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH SERVICES\n\n151-C:1 Legislative Findings; Public Interest; Review and Assessment of New Health Services. It is declared to be the public policy of this state that:\n\nI. The general welfare and protection of the lives, health, and property of the people of this state require that all new inpatient institutional health services be offered or developed in a manner which avoids unnecessary duplication, contains or reduces increases in the cost of delivering services, and promotes rational allocation of health care resources in the state;\n\nII. The state has a compelling interest in working with the health care delivery system to set standards relative to the size, type, level, quality, and affordability of health services offered in New Hampshire; and\n\nIII. The state has an interest in promoting and stimulating collaboration among providers, including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physicians, and others, and payors, including Medicaid, Medicare, private health insurers, and CHAMPUS, in the health care delivery system as a means of managing the increases in health care costs.\n\n151-C:2 Definitions. In this chapter:\n\nI. \"Ambulatory surgical facility\" means a health care facility or a portion of a health care facility which provides surgical treatment to patients not requiring hospitalization, and does not include the offices of private physicians or dentists, whether in individual or group practices.\n\nII. \"Applicant\" means a person responding to a request for application for certificate of review.\n\nIII. \"Bed capacity\" means the total number of licensed beds in a facility licensed under RSA 151; or in the case of state facilities, it means the total number of beds in service (staffed).\n\nIV. \"Business day\" includes any day, Monday through Friday, except legal holidays.\n\nV. \"Capital expenditure\" means an expenditure which, under generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied, is not properly chargeable as an expense of operation or maintenance, and includes acquisition by purchase, by transfer, or by lease or comparable arrangement, or through donation, if the expenditure would have been considered a capital expenditure if acquisition had been by purchase.\n\nVI. \"Categories of service\" means health services offered in or through a health care facility which were not offered on a regular basis in or through such health care facility within the 12-month period before the time such services would be offered.\n\nVII. \"Certificate of review\" means a certificate issued by the state agency approving the offering or development of a proposed new inpatient institutional health service.\n\nVIII. \"Confidential commercial information\" means any information filed either by a health care facility in an application for certificate of review or data disclosure under RSA 126:25 that contains either a trade secret or other commercial information:\n\n(a) That has not yet been revealed to persons other than (i) employees, agents, or attorneys of the filing party; (ii) other persons or entities with which the filing party is engaging in a joint venture or other commercial action in concert; and (iii) other persons or entities with which the filing party is actively negotiating for the purchase or sale of goods or services; and\n\n(b) That would, if revealed, substantially and adversely affect the ability of the filing party or its affiliated interests to compete with other entities offering or proposing to offer the same goods and services in the same market.\n\nIX. \"Confidential financial information\" means any financial information filed by a health care facility in accordance with an application for certificate of review or data disclosure under RSA 126:25:\n\n(a) That has not yet been revealed to persons other than (i) employees, agents, or attorneys of the health care facility; (ii) other persons or entities with which the health care facility is jointly participating in an effort to obtain financing; and (iii) other persons or entities to which the health care facility has applied for financing;\n\n(b) That would, if revealed, substantially, predictably, and adversely affect the ability of the health care facility or its affiliated interests to obtain financing on reasonable terms in competition with others seeking similar types of capital; and\n\n(c) That could lawfully be concealed under applicable laws governing financial transactions.\n\nX. \"Construction\" includes actual commencement of any construction or fabrication of any new building, or addition to any existing facility, or any expenditure, relating to the alteration, remodeling, renovation, modernization, improvement, relocation, repair, or replacement of a health care facility or health maintenance organization which adds inpatient beds or is with the intent to add a new inpatient institutional service.\n\nXI. \"Consumer of health care\" means a person who is not a provider of health care.\n\nXII. \"Conversion\" means change of the distribution of existing beds in a health care facility affecting acute care, skilled nursing care, intermediate care, psychiatric care, and substance abuse care as defined in the applicable state or federal law.\n\nXIII. \"Days\" means calendar days, unless otherwise specified.\n\nXIV. \"Department\" means the department of health and human services.\n\nXV. \"Health care facility\" means hospitals, ambulatory surgical facilities, specialty hospitals and nursing homes. Health care facilities shall include facilities which are publicly or privately owned or for-profit or not-for-profit, and which are licensed or required to be licensed in whole or in part by the state.\n\nXVI. \"Health maintenance organization\" means a public or private organization, organized under the laws of any state or the federal government which:\n\n(a) Provides or otherwise makes available to enrolled participants health care services, including at least the following basic health care services: usual physician services, hospitalization, laboratory, x-ray, emergency and preventive services, and out-of-area coverage; and\n\n(b) Is compensated, except for co-payments, for the provision of the basic health care services listed in subparagraph (a) to enrolled participants on a predetermined periodic basis without regard to the date on which health care services are provided; a predetermined periodic basis shall be fixed without regard to the frequency, extent, or kind of health care service actually provided; and\n\n(c) Provides physician services primarily (1) directly through physicians who are either employees or partners of such organization, or (2) through arrangements with individual physicians or one or more groups of physicians organized in a group practice or individual basis, or (3) a combination of (1) and (2), as provided herein.\n\nXVII. \"Health services\" means clinically related diagnostic, treatment, or rehabilitative services, as well as preventive services, and includes, without limitation, alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health services.\n\nXVIII. \"Hospice\" means a concept of care to assist dying patients to live their remaining weeks or months as free of symptoms and as much in control as possible. Such care can be provided in the individual's home, in a residential setting outside of the individual's home or in a hospital or long-term care facility.\n\nXIX. \"Hospice house\" means a free standing 24-hour residential setting licensed under RSA 151 as a supported residential care facility for terminally ill individuals with less than one year to live who no longer have a home or cannot remain safely there. Palliative care such as room, meals, personal care, medication monitoring and emotional support, is provided. Additional health care services may be provided to residents through arrangements with outside organizations as is currently available if the resident was in his or her own home.\n\nXX. \"Hospital\" means an institution which is engaged in providing to patients, under supervision of physicians, diagnostic and therapeutic services for medical diagnosis, treatment and care of injured, disabled, or sick persons, or rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of such persons. The term \"hospital\" includes psychiatric and substance abuse treatment hospitals.\n\nXXI. \"Inpatient services\" means all care delivered to patients staying more than 24 hours in a health care facility, including, but not limited to, alcohol and drug dependency, psychiatric services, physical rehabilitation, cardiology services, obstetrical services, and general medical and surgical services.\n\nXXII. \"Institutional health service\" means any proposed project for which a standard must be developed under RSA 151-C:5, II.\n\nXXIII. \"Intermediate care facility\" means an institution which, on a regular basis, provides health-related care and services of a lower level than those provided by a hospital or skilled nursing facility but above the level of room and office.\n\nXXIV. \"Location\" means service area.\n\nXXV. \"Major new facilities\" means the construction, development, or other establishment of a new inpatient health care facility.\n\nXXVI. \"Nursing home or facility\" means a place which shall provide, for 2 or more persons, basic domiciliary services (office, room, and laundry), continuing health supervision under competent professional medical and nursing direction, and continuous nursing care as may be individually required.\n\nXXVII. \"To offer\", when used in connection with health services, means that a health care provider holds itself out as capable of providing, or as having the means for the provision of, specified health services.\n\nXXVIII. \"Outpatient services\" means all care delivered to patients who are not required as a part of treatment to stay in excess of 24 hours from time of admission in a health care facility.\n\nXXIX. \"Person\" means an individual, trust, state, partnership, committee, corporation, nonprofit health service corporation, association and other organizations such as joint stock companies and insurance companies, or a political subdivision or instrumentality of a state, including a municipal corporation.\n\nXXX. \"Physical facility or site\" means the total buildings, structures, and land of a health care facility.\n\nXXXI. \"Provider of health care\" means a person:\n\n(a) Who is a direct provider of health care, including a physician, dentist, nurse, podiatrist, optometrist, physician assistant, or ancillary personnel employed under the supervision of a physician, in that the individual's primary current activity is the provision of health care to individuals or the administration of facilities or institutions, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, rehabilitation facilities, alcohol and drug abuse treatment facilities, outpatient facilities, and health maintenance organizations, in which such care is provided and, when required by the laws of this state, who has received professional training in the provision of such care or in such administration and is licensed or certified for such provision or administration;\n\n(b) Who holds a fiduciary position with, or has a fiduciary interest in, any entity described in subparagraph (c)(2) or (c)(4) of this paragraph other than an entity described in either such subparagraph which is also an entity described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and which does not have as its primary purpose the delivery of health care, the conduct of research, the conduct of instruction for health professionals, or the production of drugs or articles described in subparagraph (c)(3) of this paragraph;\n\n(c) Who receives (either directly or through the person's spouse) more than 1/5 of his gross annual income from any one or combination of the following:\n\n(1) Fees or other compensation for research into or instruction in the provision of health care;\n\n(2) Entities engaged in the provision of health care or in research or instruction in the provision of health care;\n\n(3) Producing or supplying drugs or other articles for individuals or entities for use in the provision of or in research into or instruction in the provision of health care; or\n\n(4) Entities engaged in producing drugs or such other articles;\n\n(d) Who is the member of the immediate family of an individual described in subparagraph (a), (b), or (c); or\n\n(e) Who is engaged in issuing any policy or contract of individual or group health insurance, hospital, or medical service benefits. An individual shall not be considered a provider of health care solely because the individual is a member of the governing office of an entity described in subparagraph (c)(2) or (c)(4).\n\nXXXII. \"Psychiatric hospital\" means an institution which is primarily engaged in providing to inpatients, by or under the supervision of a physician, psychiatric services for the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of mentally ill and emotionally disturbed persons.\n\nXXXIII. \"Rehabilitation facility\" means an inpatient facility which is operated for the primary purpose of assisting in the rehabilitation of disabled persons through an integrated program of medical and other services which are provided under competent professional supervision.\n\nXXXIV. \"Request for application\" means a formal publication of need for a specific service based on an existing standard, revised standard, or new standard as developed pursuant to RSA 151-C:5 and 6.\n\nXXXV. \"Review\" means the review of applications submitted in response to a request for application published by the department.\n\nXXXVI. \"Skilled nursing facility\" means an institution or a distinct part of an institution which is primarily engaged in providing to injured, disabled, or sick inpatients skilled nursing care, and rehabilitative and related services.\n\nXXXVII. \"Standard\" means a health policy guideline developed by the department and instituted under the provisions of RSA 541-A.\n\n151-C:3 Ambulatory Surgical Facilities. An ambulatory surgical facility may provide beds or other accommodations for the overnight stay of up to 5 patients not to exceed 24 hours from the time of admission. Thereafter, an individual patient shall be discharged in an ambulatory condition or shall be transferred to an inpatient health care facility. The rules adopted pursuant to 1996, 299:4 regarding quality and safety standards for overnight beds in ambulatory surgical facilities shall remain in effect.\n\n151-C:4 Prohibitions.\n\nI. No new inpatient institutional health service shall be offered or developed within the state, nor shall any arrangement or commitment for financing the offering or developing of a new inpatient institutional health service be made, except pursuant to obtaining a certificate of review for such service.\n\nII. No certificate of review shall be granted by the department unless a standard has been developed which delineates the need for the service and outlines the criteria which must be met by any person proposing such a service.\n\nIII.(a) No certificate of review shall be granted by the department for any nursing home, skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility or rehabilitation facility from the effective date of chapter 310, laws of 1995, department of health and human services reorganization act, through the period ending June 30, 2003, except that a certificate of review shall be issued for replacement or renovation of existing beds as necessary to meet life safety code requirements or to remedy deficiencies noted in a licensing inspection pursuant to RSA 151 or state survey and certification process pursuant to titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act.\n\n(b) No certificate of review shall be granted by the department for any nursing home, skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility if it will result in the total number of licensed nursing facility beds in the region exceeding 40 beds per each 1,000 persons aged 65 and older living in the region.\n\nIV. Any applications for certificates of review for nursing homes or facilities or rehabilitation facilities pending on the effective date of this paragraph shall be suspended pending revision of such standard of need.\n\nV. The department shall apply the revised standard of review to any suspended pending applications.\n\n151-C:5 Standard Development.\n\nI. Prior to development or review of any new institutional health service the department shall publish in one or more newspapers of general circulation within each county, a description of the scope of coverage of its program for development and review of standards and the review of applications responding to requests for applications (RFA's) including the activities covered in RSA 151-C:5, II and 151-C:13. Whenever the scope of such coverage is revised, the department shall publish a revised description thereof, as provided in this paragraph.\n\nII. The department shall develop standards for new inpatient institutional health services. These include the following:\n\n(a) The transfer of ownership, in whole or in part, of an existing health care facility, or the acquisition of all or substantially all of its assets or stock, except where the transfer of ownership would be subject to the provisions of reevaluation of assets as outlined in the Federal Deficit Reduction Act of 1984;\n\n(b) The development and offering of new inpatient services;\n\n(c) A threshold amount for construction of ambulatory surgical centers within the service area of a hospital with fewer than 70 general hospital beds licensed by the department of health and human services shall be $500,000, which threshold shall be adjusted annually using an appropriate inflation index, unless there is an objection by such hospital, in which case the application shall be subject to review regardless of value. The department shall determine by rule the service areas of such hospitals.\n\nIII. The department shall develop, pursuant to rules adopted under RSA 541-A, standards of need on health care services listed in paragraph II of this section. All persons enumerated in paragraph I of this section shall receive notice of all the standards and public hearings relative to the standards. The department shall publish notice of proposed standards in a state-wide newspaper and at least one newspaper in each county of the state. Each notice shall include dates and locations of public hearings.\n\n151-C:6 Procedures for Existing Standards; No Standards.\n\nI. If a standard of need, which precludes additional services, has existed for longer than 24 months, any person may request that the standard be reviewed to determine whether the standard should be continued. The 24-month requirement may be waived if it can be demonstrated that there has been a change in technology, market, or price which would warrant review of the standard. Notwithstanding RSA 541-A:4, the procedure shall be as follows:\n\n(a) A request for a standard review shall be submitted in writing to the department.\n\n(b) Within 30 days of the receipt of the request, the department must notify, in writing, the person making the request of the commencement of the 120-day standard review process or that the proposed project is not in accordance with RSA 151-C:5, II, and no standard review shall take place.\n\n(c) The review of an existing standard shall take no longer than 120 days. Adoption of the standard shall be in accordance with RSA 541-A.\n\n(d) The department shall notify persons, pursuant to RSA 151-C:5, I, of the beginning of the standard review period and the schedule for the review.\n\n(e) If the department does not provide a standard allocating the new service or a statement on competition within the allotted 180 days, the proposed service shall not be required to obtain a certificate of review and shall not be subject to regulation under RSA 151-C.\n\nII. In the case of a service for which there is no standard, any person may request, in writing, that the department develop a standard. Notwithstanding RSA 541-A:4, the procedure shall be as follows:\n\n(a) A request for a standard development shall be submitted in writing to the department.\n\n(b) Within 30 days of the receipt of the request, the department shall notify, in writing, the person making the request of the commencement of the 120-day standard development process or that the service is not in accordance with RSA 151-C:5, II, and no standard development shall take place.\n\n(c) The development of a new standard shall take no longer than 120 days. Adoption of the standard shall be in accordance with RSA 541-A.\n\n(d) The department shall notify persons, pursuant to RSA 151-C:5, I, of the beginning of the standard development period and the schedule for the review.\n\n(e) The standard shall be either a standard allocating the new service by number, type, and location or a statement that the proposed new service is in the best competitive interest of health care in the state and shall not be subject to the provisions of RSA 151-C:8. The decision of the department shall be considered a final decision.\n\n(f) If the department does not provide a standard allocating the new service or a statement on competition within the allotted 180 days, the proposed service shall not be required to obtain a certificate of review and shall not be subject to regulation under RSA 151-C.\n\nIII. In any standards for nursing facilities, the department shall provide that priority for a certificate of review for additional nursing facility beds shall be given to any facility which after January 1, 1999, has surrendered its certificate of review for the same or greater number of nursing facility beds. A facility may transfer to any other entity its priority status for a new certificate of review.\n\n151-C:7 Criteria. Every standard developed by the department shall stipulate the criteria which must be met by any successful applicant applying to fill a need identified in the standard. At a minimum these shall include:\n\nI. The immediate and long range financial feasibility of the proposed project, including the probable impact of costs and charges of the facility on health insurance premiums and personal health expenditures in the state or the region of the state.\n\nII. The availability of resources for the proposed project including health and management personnel and funds, capital, and operating needs.\n\nIII. The degree to which the proposed project will be accessible to persons who are medically underserviced, including, but not limited to, persons with a disability and indigent persons.\n\nIV. In the case of existing facilities or entities with other facilities, records of the quality of care which may include records from state, federal, and private licensing and accreditation facilities. In the case of new entities, assurance of the quality of care stated in measurable terms.\n\n151-C:8 Procedures for Certificate of Review.\n\nI. If a standard developed through RSA 151-C:5 or 151-C:6 indicates a need for additional health services, the department shall issue a request for applications. The department shall publish, in other than the legal notices section, in a newspaper of statewide distribution and in at least one newspaper in every county, as well as notify all affected persons as defined in paragraph VI(b) of this section, a notice that the department is requesting applications for certificates of review for the specified service. At a minimum the notice shall include:\n\n(a) A brief description of the service to be provided, including the amount, type, and location as established by the standard.\n\n(b) The final date that applications are to be submitted which shall be no sooner than 60 days from the date of publication. An application in response to a request for application may be submitted prior to the deadline, but no review shall commence prior to the deadline.\n\n(c) An address at which applicants may obtain copies of the application format as well as the minimum criteria and specifications which shall be the basis for judging the merits of each application.\n\nII. The department shall be available to provide technical assistance to any applicant submitting an application in response to a request for applications.\n\nIII. All applications received in response to a single request for applications shall be reviewed simultaneously and shall be considered in relationship to each other.\n\nIV. Every application shall contain such information as the department adopts by rule. The department shall not require any information which it has not adopted by rule. The information requirements established by the department may vary according to the purpose of the review or the type of health service being reviewed. In addition to the information required for submission to the department, any applicant may submit, and the department shall duly consider, any other information.\n\nV.(a) The department shall examine every application for form and completeness, and the information required by RSA 151-C:7 as well as the specifications and standards outlined in the request for application. If an application is determined incomplete by the department, it shall notify the applicant by certified mail within 15 business days of receipt of the application. Such notification shall include a full explanation of the reasons for incompleteness. If no request for additional information is made by the department within the 15 business days, the application shall be considered complete.\n\n(b) An applicant whose application is incomplete shall be allowed a maximum of 15 business days, from the date of receipt of notification of incompleteness, to provide the required additional information. The applicant shall not provide more than the required additional information. The department shall then review the additional information provided by the applicant; and, if satisfactory, the application shall be considered complete and the applicant shall be notified by certified mail. If the application is still found to be incomplete, the department shall mail the applicant a notification within 10 business days of receipt of the additional information. If no such notification is mailed to the applicant by the department within the 10 business days' period, the application shall be considered complete. Within 5 business days of the receipt of any information submitted pursuant to the second completeness notice, the department shall notify the applicant as to whether such information is satisfactory and the application shall be considered complete.\n\n(c) Any applicant whose application is incomplete following the second completeness review under subparagraph (b) may, by certified mail, within 5 business days of receipt of the second notice of incompleteness:\n\n(1) Provide the additional required information; or\n\n(2) Stipulate that it wishes to have its application reviewed by the department notwithstanding its incompleteness. Any applicant whose application is incomplete and who fails to either provide the additional required information or stipulate that it wishes to have its application reviewed notwithstanding its incompleteness shall waive any right to have its application reviewed.\n\n(d) The department shall review any application for which a stipulation has been filed pursuant to subparagraph (c).\n\n(e) An applicant may withdraw an application at any time thereby terminating the review process.\n\nVI.(a) Within 10 business days of completion of the completeness review under paragraph V of this section, the department shall mail, to any qualified applicant, a notice that formal review of the application has begun and shall publish the notice in other than the legal notice section of one or more newspapers of general circulation in the state and in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the service area of the facility to be reviewed. The department shall provide all affected persons, as defined in subparagraph (b), with written notification of the beginning of a review. The notice shall include a statement that review has begun and the proposed schedule for review by the department.\n\n(b) For purposes of this paragraph, \"affected persons\" include organizations of health care providers and organizations of health care consumers, as defined by the department by rules adopted pursuant to RSA 541-A, and members of the public who are to be served by the proposed project. For purposes of this paragraph, notification of all qualified applicants in which the proposed project is to be offered or developed shall be by certified mail. Notification to all affected persons shall be by mail and notification to members of the public shall be by newspaper. Notification by newspaper shall serve as appropriate notice to all health care facilities located within the state.\n\n(c) If an affected person fails to receive notification which was provided in accordance with this paragraph, such failure of notice shall not be grounds for reversal of a decision made by the department, defeat any jurisdiction of the department, or adversely affect the regularity of any proceedings before the department.\n\nVII. The date on which notification is sent to qualified applicants or the date on which notification to the members of the public first appears in a newspaper published in the state, whichever occurs later, shall be the date of notification and shall be the beginning date of the review cycle of the department.\n\nVIII. The department shall establish review schedules which provide that no review by the department shall, to the extent possible, take longer than 90 calendar days from the beginning of the review cycle to the date of a final decision of the department. In accordance with the requirements of RSA 151-C:11, the department shall adopt exception criteria for determining when it would not be practicable to complete a review within 90 calendar days. If an application clearly meets such exception criteria, the department may provide for a single extension of the review period for a total of 30 calendar days beyond the initial 90-day period. The total review period for certificate of review shall not extend beyond 120 days from the beginning of review.\n\nIX. Upon request, the department shall provide for access by the general public to all applications reviewed by the department and to all other written materials pertinent to department review.\n\nX. The department shall provide in its review procedures for a public hearing. The department shall, prior to such hearing, provide notice of such hearing in accordance with the notification provisions in paragraph VI of this section. The procedures for a public hearing shall include an opportunity for any person to present testimony regarding the proposed project, the right of any persons testifying to be accompanied and advised by legal counsel, the right of any qualified applicant to cross-examine witnesses, and the establishment of a formal record of the hearing. The department shall not impose any fee for such a public hearing.\n\nXI. During the course of review of any application for a certificate of review, the department shall take reasonable measures to prohibit and prevent all ex parte communication relating to the merits of such application.\n\nXII.(a) After an application has been filed with the department, the applicant may file a request to amend the application only during the 45 days after the date of notification of the beginning of review. If the department grants the applicant's request, the application shall be filed 30 days after the department's approval. The department shall examine the amended application for form and completeness, for information required in RSA 151-C:7, and for conformity to all applicable standards in the request for applications. If an application is determined incomplete, the department shall notify the applicant by certified mail within 10 business days of receipt of the amended application. The applicant whose application is incomplete shall be allowed a maximum of 10 business days from the date of receipt of the department's notification of incompleteness to provide the required additional information. The amended application shall then be considered complete and processed in accordance with the provisions of paragraph VIII.\n\n(b) When an application is filed with the department, an applicant shall be required by the department to file an amendment of the application when any supporting documentation or other material submitted to the department by the applicant indicates that:\n\n(1) The nature, scope, or location of the project will differ substantially from those described in the application;\n\n(2) The method of financing will differ substantially from that described in the application in that the estimated capital expenditure will exceed that proposed in the application by 15 percent plus the inflation factor, as specified in RSA 151-C:12, IV.\n\n(3) The identity of the applicant has changed.\n\n(4) The department may waive the requirements of subparagraph (b)(1), (2) or (3) if it is determined that the proposed amendment of the application is technical or otherwise insignificant.\n\n(c) If an amendment is filed in accordance with subparagraph (a) or (b), the application shall return to the point in the review process defined in paragraph VI relative to the notification to the applicant that review of the application has begun.\n\nXIII. Any action by the department or by an applicant pursuant to this section which results in a delay of the review process shall affect all applicants which filed under the same request for application and are considered by the department to be competing.\n\n151-C:9 Decision Regarding Certificate of Review; Issuance of Certificate of Review; Reconsideration.\n\nI. Upon completion of the review, the department shall render a decision on the applicant or applicants which filed in response to a request for application. The decision shall be in the form of an approval, denial, or an approval with conditions. An approval of a certificate of review shall be in conformance with the standard used as the basis for the request for application.\n\nII. The department shall consider competing applicants in relationship to each other. The decision shall be based on the applicant who demonstrates superiority in cost effectiveness, quality, and affordability and who will best meet the specifications and criteria outlined in the standard.\n\nIII. If the department fails to issue a final decision within the time period specified for the review, a certificate of review shall be denied. The applicant may either request a reconsideration hearing under paragraph IV, or, within a reasonable time following the expiration of that period, petition the supreme court to require the department to render a final decision on the application.\n\nIV.(a) Any person, for good cause shown, may request in writing a public hearing for purposes of reconsideration of a final decision of the department. The department shall adopt appropriate procedures for such a hearing. No fee may be imposed for the hearing. For purposes of this paragraph, a request for a reconsideration hearing, other than by an applicant denied a certificate of review, shall be good cause if it:\n\n(1) Presents significant, relevant information not previously considered by the department;\n\n(2) Demonstrates that there have been significant changes in factors or circumstances relied upon by the department in reaching its decision;\n\n(3) Demonstrates that the department has materially failed to follow its adopted procedures in reaching its decision; or\n\n(4) Provides such other basis for a public hearing as the department determines constitutes good cause.\n\n(b) To be effective, a request for a reconsideration hearing shall be received by the department within 20 business days following the date of the department's decision. If granted, the hearing shall commence within 30 calendar days of receipt of the request. The applicant may waive the 30-day requirement. At least 14 calendar days prior to the reconsideration hearing, notification of the hearing shall be sent to the person requesting the hearing and to the persons proposing the new institutional health service and to others upon request. Within 25 business days after the conclusion of the hearing, the department shall make written findings which state the basis for its decision. The decision shall be considered the final decision of the department.\n\n151-C:10 Appeals to the Supreme Court.\n\nI. Any person submitting an application for a certificate of review, if aggrieved or dissatisfied with the decision of the department, shall have the right, upon a petition which provides a detailed statement of the grounds upon which the decision of the department is claimed to be erroneous and contrary to the facts and the law, to appeal from the decision to the supreme court pursuant to RSA 541.\n\nII. The provisions of RSA 541 shall govern all appeals under this section.\n\nIII. The court shall affirm the decision of the department unless it finds it to be arbitrary or capricious or not made in compliance with applicable law.\n\n151-C:11 Additional Rules.\n\nI. The commissioner of the department shall adopt rules governing review of certificate of review applications consistent with and necessary to the proper administration of this chapter. All rules shall be adopted pursuant to RSA 541-A and as described in this section; except that, in the case of an irreconcilable conflict between the provisions of RSA 541-A and the provisions of this section, the provisions of this section shall control.\n\nII. At least 45 days prior to adopting any rule, the department shall publish, in at least one newspaper of statewide circulation, a notice stating that rules for the review of certificate of review applications or any revisions thereof have been proposed for adoption and are available at specified addresses for inspection and copying by interested persons. Such notice shall appear in other than the legal notice section of such newspapers; in addition, notice may be given through other public information channels.\n\n151-C:12 Validity of Certificates of Review; Compliance; Sanctions.\n\nI. A certificate of review issued pursuant to this chapter shall expire upon failure to commence or complete the project authorized thereby within the time period specified in this section. The department's approval shall be terminated upon the expiration of such period, and the person proposing to offer or develop the new institutional health service shall be required to resubmit an application for certificate of review under RSA 151-C:8. In the event that only part of a project to offer or develop the new institutional health service has been commenced or completed within such period, the department's approval shall be terminated upon the expiration of such period solely with respect to the parts of the project which have not been commenced or completed. Project completion date requirements are as follows:\n\n(a) In the case of construction projects, the following time periods apply:\n\n(1) If the total estimated cost of the project is less than $ 1,000,000, the project must be commenced within one year of, and completed within 3 years of, the date of issuance of a certificate of review.\n\n(2) If the total estimated cost of the project is greater than $1,000,000, then the project must be commenced within 18 months of, and completed within 5 years of, the date of issuance of a certificate of review.\n\n(b) In the case of any plan for capital expenditures proposed by or on behalf of a health care facility, health maintenance organization, or health care provider under which a series of obligations for capital expenditures for discrete components of the plan is to be incurred over a period longer than one year, the department may allow up to 3 years following the date of approval for incurring such capital expenditures.\n\nII. Pursuant to a showing of good cause by the person proposing the project, the department shall extend by 6 months the period for commencement. A maximum of 2 such extensions shall be allowed. Upon a showing of substantial, diligent progress and good cause by the person proposing the project, the department shall grant up to a maximum of 2 extensions of 6 months each for completion of the project. For purposes of this paragraph, \"good cause\" includes delay resulting from unpreventable or unexpected occurrences, such as emergency, strike, disaster, unforeseen shortage of materials or other reasonably unforeseeable event.\n\nIII. For the purposes of this chapter, a project shall be commenced if:\n\n(a) The applicant has submitted to the department a certified copy of a written agreement executed between the applicant and a registered general contractor to construct and complete the project within a designated time schedule in accordance with final architectural plans and specifications; or\n\n(b) The applicant has submitted evidence to the department that there has been construction work on the project to justify and require a progress payment by the applicant to the general contractor under the terms of the construction agreement, or, if the construction agreement does not require progress payments, then construction has progressed to the state at which an initial progress payment would otherwise be required in accordance with the usual and customary practices of the building industry.\n\nIV. For purposes of this chapter, completion shall mean when the approved proposed project is sufficiently complete so that it becomes operational for the purpose for which the certificate of review was issued. A certificate of review shall be valid only for the designated scope of the project and for the premises and geographical area named in the application. A certificate of review granted for a project shall not be considered as an approval of that portion of the total actual cost of such a project which is in excess of the sum of: (a) the anticipated cost designated in the application; (b) an additional 15 percent of the total cost; and (c) cost increases clearly attributable to inflation.\n\nIV-a.(a) Prior to completion of the proposed project, the department may require any applicant to file a change of scope when any documentation or other material submitted to the department indicates that:\n\n(1) The nature, scope, or location of the project will differ substantially in the opinion of the department from those described in the application.\n\n(2) The method of financing will differ substantially because the estimated capital expenditure will exceed that proposed in the application by 15 percent plus the inflation factor, as specified in RSA 151-C:12, IV.\n\n(3) The identity of the applicant has changed.\n\n(b) The department may waive the requirements of subparagraph (a)(1), (2) or (3), if it is determined that the proposed change in scope of the project is technical or otherwise insignificant.\n\nV. All applicants receiving a certificate of review or a certificate of review with conditions shall file, at least semi-annually during the development stage and annually once the project is commenced, a report indicating that the project is in compliance with information provided in the application, and with the conditions outlined in the certificate of review. A report shall only be necessary for the first 5 years after completion of the project.\n\nVI. Any applicant found not to be in reasonable compliance with any statement in its certificate of review application or with the conditions of the certificate of review shall be fined not more than 1/2 of one percent of the previous year's revenue minus contractual allowances or, in the case of a new facility, not more than 1/2 of one percent of the projected first year revenue minus contractual allowances.\n\nVII. Funds collected under the provisions of this section shall be deposited in the general fund.\n\n151-C:13 Exemptions.\n\nI. The following are excluded from this chapter:\n\n(a) Private offices or private clinics of physicians, dentists, or other practitioners of the healing arts, meaning the physical places which are occupied by such providers on a regular basis in which such providers perform the range of diagnostic and treatment services usually performed by such providers on an outpatient basis.\n\n(b) Dispensaries and first-aid stations, located within business or industrial establishments, maintained solely for the use of employees, provided that such a facility does not contain inpatient or resident beds for patients or employees who generally remain in the facility for more than 24 hours.\n\n(c) Infirmaries owned or operated by education institutions.\n\n(d) Institutions or homes which provide remedial care or treatment only to residents or patients who rely solely upon treatment by prayer or spiritual means in accordance with the creed or attendance of any recognized church or religious denomination.\n\n(e) Facilities and services which are intended to serve only outpatients.\n\n(f) Hospice houses.\n\nII. Nothing in this chapter shall exempt hospice houses from the licensing standards established under RSA 151.\n\n151-C:14 Enforcement.\n\nI. Any person who offers or develops any new institutional health service within the meaning of this chapter without first obtaining a certificate of review as required in this chapter, or who otherwise violates any of the provisions of this chapter, shall be subject to the following sanctions:\n\n(a) The state shall not issue a license to any health care facility or health maintenance organization to operate, offer, or develop any new institutional health service in violation of this chapter and without a certificate of review issued pursuant to this chapter. The provisions of RSA 151 notwithstanding, in the case of an increase in actual bed capacity in contravention of the requirements of this chapter, any license for such beds shall be deemed to be revoked.\n\n(b) The state shall not furnish from any reimbursement program administered by the state, nor shall any entity chartered under the laws of New Hampshire or any person licensed and doing business in the state, provide reimbursement for any new institutional health service offered or developed in contravention of the requirements of this chapter.\n\n(c) Any person who violates this chapter shall be fined not more than 1/2 of one percent of the total operating budget of the previous year, or, in the case of a new facility, not more than \u00bd of one percent of the projected annual operating budget for the first year of operation.\n\n(d) In addition to all other sanctions, if any person offers or develops any new institutional health service without first having been issued a certificate of review, or violates any other provision of this chapter or any lawful rule adopted under this chapter, upon the posting of a bond or security, the department or health care facilities, health maintenance organizations, and health care providers located in the state shall have standing to maintain a civil action in the superior court of the county in which such alleged violation has occurred, or in which such person may be found, to enjoin, restrain, or prevent such violation. Upon written request by the department, it shall be the duty of the attorney general of the state to furnish such legal services as may be appropriate and to prosecute such action for injunctive relief to an appropriate conclusion.\n\n151-C:15 Fees.\n\nI. In addition to any other fees required of it, each acute care hospital, specialty hospital, nursing home, and ambulatory surgical center licensed under RSA 151 shall pay an annual administrative fee. The total amount collected shall be equal to the amount actually expended in that year for the health services planning and review component of the department of health and human services or $700,000, whichever is less. The amount to be collected shall be prorated at the end of each fiscal year among all health care facilities licensed under RSA 151, except those operated by county and municipal governments.\n\nII. All persons filing an application in response to a request for applications shall pay a fee of one percent of the total capital cost of the project with a minimum fee of $1,500, and a maximum of $12,000. This paragraph shall not apply to health care facilities operated by counties or municipalities.\n\nIII. Persons requesting a standard development or standard review as outlined in RSA 151-C:6 shall pay a fee of $1,000 if the department determines that a standard review or a standard development process shall occur.\n\nIV. Funds collected under this section shall be deposited in the general fund.\n\n2 Transfer of Functions, Powers, Duties and Staff. All functions, powers, duties and staff of the health services planning and review board are hereby transferred to the department of health and human services.\n\n3 Reference Change. Amend RSA 126:25, II to read as follows:\n\nII. In addition to the data listed in paragraph I, the commissioner of health and human services shall require all providers[, including ambulatory care facilities,] licensed or certified to practice in the state of New Hampshire to submit ambulatory health care data pursuant to a plan to collect such data developed by the [ health services planning and review board established by RSA 151-C:3] department of health and human services. This plan shall be [ submitted to the commissioner of health and human services by December 1, 1990] completed by December 31, 2003.\n\n4 Data Review; Reference Change. Amend RSA 126:26 to read as follows:\n\n126:26 Data Review. [ The department of health and human services shall provide access, without restriction, to the data collected under RSA 126:25 to the health services planning and review board]. The department shall prepare a report on or before November 15, [ 1996] 2004, and [ annually] thereafter, to the speaker of the house of representatives and president of the senate. The report shall contain, but not be limited to, an inventory of the existing health care system capacity and the projection of future system needs, an analysis and evaluation of the data collected and recommendations for improved efficiencies and for health care cost containment. The department of health and human services is also authorized to prepare periodic reports on [ price] health care cost and utilization of health services for the purpose of encouraging competition.\n\n5 Reference Change. Amend RSA 195-D:3, XII to read as follows:\n\nXII. \"Nursing home,\" notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, means any nonprofit or charitable institution or organization, public or private, which is exempt from federal taxation pursuant to section 501 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended, and which is engaged in the operation of, or formed for the purpose of operating, a facility in which nursing care, sheltered care, intermediate care, life-care or continuing care, and medical services are prescribed by or performed under the general direction of persons licensed to practice medicine or surgery in New Hampshire, and in whole or in part is, or shall be upon completion, (a) licensed as a residential care facility under RSA 151:2, I(e) or (b) can be upon receipt of a certificate of [ need] review under RSA 151-C licensed as a nursing home under the laws of New Hampshire.\n\n6 Reference Changes. Amend RSA 281-A:2, XII-b to read as follows:\n\nXII-b. \"Health care provider\" as used in this chapter includes doctors, chiropractors, rehabilitation providers, health services as defined in RSA 151-C:2, [ XVIII] XVII, health care facilities as defined in RSA 151-C:2, [ XV-a] XV, and health maintenance organizations as defined in RSA 151-C:2, XVI.\n\n7 Reference Changes. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 326-B:17, IX(a) to read as follows:\n\n(a) The administration of medications by any person employed or under contract to provide direct care to residents of a hospice house as defined in RSA 151-C:2, [ XIX-b] XIX and licensed under RSA 151 and rules adopted under that chapter as a hospice house under the supported residential care level of care by the New Hampshire department of health and human services who:\n\n8 Reference Change. Amend RSA 508:18, II to read as follows:\n\nII. For purposes of this section, \"health care facility\" means \"health care facility\" as defined in RSA 151-C:2, [ XV-a] XV.\n\n9 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.\n\nLBAO\n\n03-0689\n\nAmended 4/22/03\n\nHB 788 FISCAL NOTE\n\nAN ACT repealing the certificate of need law.\n\nMETHODOLOGY:\n\nThe Department indicated this bill repeals and re-enacts the certificate of need law, RSA 151-C, and amends RSA 126:25,II, giving the Department authority to collect data from ambulatory health care facilities. This bill limits review to new inpatient services only, and transfers the staff and duties of the Board to the Department.\n\nThe Department assumes that by limiting the review process, health care facilities may proceed with the majority of construction and renovation projects without review by the state. The Department can not determine the impact on health care costs or on state, county and local revenue or expenditures. The Department indicated that certain health planning activities will be eligible for federal Medicaid reimbursement at a rate of 35%, which will increase state restricted revenue by an estimated $175,000 per year.", "in_text": [], "chars": 54746}, "nver": 0, "namd": 0, "rsa": {"RSA 151-C": "/laws/151-c", "RSA 151": "/laws/151", "RSA 126:25": "/laws/126#s25", "RSA 151-C:5": "/laws/151-c", "RSA 541-A": "/laws/541-a", "RSA 541-A:4": "/laws/541-a#s4", "RSA 151-C:8": "/laws/151-c", "RSA 151-C:7": "/laws/151-c", "RSA 151-C:11": "/laws/151-c", "RSA 151-C:12": "/laws/151-c", "RSA 541": "/laws/541", "RSA 151-C:6": "/laws/151-c", "RSA 151-C:3": "/laws/151-c", "RSA 126:26": "/laws/126#s26", "RSA 195-D:3": "/laws/195-d#s3", "RSA 151:2": "/laws/151#s2", "RSA 281-A:2": "/laws/281-a#s2", "RSA 151-C:2": "/laws/151-c", "RSA 326-B:17": "/laws/326-b#s17", "RSA 508:18": "/laws/508#s18"}, "amends": {"RSA 126:25": "/laws/126#s25", "RSA 126:26": "/laws/126#s26", "RSA 195-D:3": "/laws/195-d#s3", "RSA 281-A:2": "/laws/281-a#s2", "RSA 326-B:17": "/laws/326-b#s17", "RSA 508:18": "/laws/508#s18", "RSA 151-C": "/laws/151-c"}, "related": [{"g": 2, "o": "2003-2004/SB163", "n": "SB 163-FN", "t": "relative to the procedures of the health services planning and review board.", "y": 2003, "c": "Died", "s": "This term's {b} has much the same text."}]}