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Last month, New York State began a formal review of its Certificate of Need (CON) process for nursing homes, launching a timely conversation about how best to align regulatory oversight with evolving system needs. A new...more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. AL2024-031, Springhill Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Springhill Medical Center, Mobile County, AL: Proposes to add twenty (20) inpatient rehabilitation beds to an existing eighteen (18) bed...more
Members of the health care community may recall that the 2025 legislative session of the Connecticut General Assembly started out with Governor Lamont signing into law an emergency certificate of need (CON) process for...more
Late last week, Governor Lamont announced that the Commissioner of the Office of Health Strategy (OHS), Deidre Gifford, plans to retire from state service in June. No successor was named. ...more
I. II. Certificate of Need Program - A. AL2024-025, 211-213 Ana Drive Operations, LLC d/b/a Hilltop at Glenwood II, Lauderdale County, AL: Proposes to convert sixteen (16) existing assisted living facility (ALF) beds into...more
Pullman & Comley’s annual survey of health law cases summarizes important decisions issued in 2024 affecting the practice of medicine and the payment for health care services....more
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled her executive budget proposal for State Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-2026 on Jan. 21, 2025, which includes amendments to the state's Disclosure of Material Transactions law. If the amendments are...more
Welcome to our second volume and first issue of 2025 of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. We hope you enjoyed our Volume 1 issues in 2024 and look forward to continuing to provide information about...more
North Carolina’s Healthcare Planning Section has now forwarded the 2025 State Medical Facilities Plan (the “2025 SMFP”) to Governor Roy Cooper for his review and signature. If signed as proposed, the 2025 SMFP will include...more
In September 2024, a group of Washington, D.C., legislators introduced the Certificate of Need (CON) Improvement Act of 2024, B25-0948. ...more
The North Carolina Supreme Court issued a decision on Oct. 18 that does not decide the constitutionality of North Carolina's Certificate of Need (CON) law one way or the other but does keep the case alive for further decision...more
The Connecticut Office of Health Strategy (OHS) has released the 2024 Statewide Health Care Facilities and Services Plan, along with a biennial inventory of all Connecticut health care facilities and services (the Plan)....more
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed House Bill 1339 (the “Law”) into law on April 19, 2024. The Law revised existing provisions of the Georgia Certificate of Need statute (the “Statute”). The Law became effective July 1, 2024....more
This week, Heather and Matthew welcome the Maynard Nexsen health care team’s newest addition, Rebecca Thornhill, an experienced health care attorney who guides clients through regulatory, transactional, and litigation...more
Tennessee legislators have made significant progress in reforming the burdensome certificate of need (CON) requirements for establishing new health care facilities and services in Tennessee. Tennessee’s CON law has...more
North Carolina’s Healthcare Planning Section has provided a first look at the opportunities for new health care development across our State. The 2025 State Medical Facilities Plan (the “2025 SMFP”) is expected to identify...more
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed legislation into law on May 21, 2024, that modifies Tennessee's certificate of need (CON) requirements. The law makes several changes to the existing CON law, including exempting more healthcare...more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. Contested Case - AL2023-021, Affinity Hospital, LLC d/b/a Grandview Medical Center, Hoover, AL: Proposes to establish a Freestanding Emergency Department (FED) in the city of Hoover,...more
UPDATED MAY 14, 2024 NOTE: The legislative session of the Connecticut General Assembly ended on May 8, 2024. The bills discussed in this blog did not pass. We will be monitoring new developments in the law regarding...more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. Project Modification Request - AL2021-003, Crimson Village, LLC, Tuscaloosa County, AL: The project modification request is for the approval to relocate the specialty care assisted...more
On June 22, 2023, New York State Public Health Law § 2802-b, added a Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) to the Certificate of Need (CON) process for certain health care facilities. The new requirement comes as part of...more
On July 25, the Connecticut Supreme Court issued an opinion in High Watch Recovery Center Inc. v. Department of Public Health that addresses the subject of the right to file an appeal of a certificate-of-need, or CON,...more
On July 25, 2023, the Connecticut Supreme Court issued an opinion in High Watch Recovery Center, Inc. v. Dept. of Public Health that addresses the subject of the right to file an appeal of a Certificate of Need (CON) decision...more
As we reported last month, the draft 2024 State Medical Facilities Plan (SMFP) was released on July 3, 2023. The SMFP is North Carolina’s key health planning document in which the State publishes need determinations for...more
Group medical practices in Connecticut and New York that are contemplating acquisitions, mergers or other significant transactions with third parties should pay close attention to new legal developments in these states....more