Prior Authorization Reform Amendment Act of 2022

Good Faith Waiver of Certificate of Need for Healthcare Providers Emergency Amendment Act of 2021

Good Faith Waiver of Certificate of Need for Healthcare Providers Temporary Amendment Act of 2021

Good Faith Waiver of Certificates of Need for Health Care Providers Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2021

Newly available on the Source: our health policy research team compiled a user-friendly, downloadable Excel spreadsheet of all provider merger review authority for all 50 states, now on the Market Consolidation interactive key issue page. The detailed chart provides clickable citations of all statutes, regulations, and state authority for mergers, acquisitions, conversions, or changes in ownership of healthcare providers.

The comprehensive spreadsheet allows side-by-side comparisons of the level of legal authority for each state to receive notice of impending transactions, review those transactions, and approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove them. It is conveniently organized by each type of state entity:

• Attorney general notice, approval, and review criteria
• Court approval requirement and criteria
• State health agency notice, approval and review criteria
• Certificate of Need (CON) notice, approval, and review criteria

Click on each citation for a direct link to the statutory text and other detailed information as provided by the Database of State Laws Impacting Healthcare Cost and Quality (SLIHCQ). All laws and regulations are current as of July 2021.

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As introduced it regulates the practice of tele-psychology and the face to face practice of psychology across state boundaries. Among other things, It provides legal recognition to psychologists properly licensed out of state. It also requires all compact states share licensee information with compact states and create a coordinated database on participating compact psychologists.

As introduced it requires health care facilities to add community benefits as a requirement for obtaining or maintaining a certificate of need. Health care facilities would also be required to direct the community benefits to District residents, as a condition of holding or receiving a certificate of need.

To amend the Insurance Trade and Economic Development Amendment Act of 2000 to adopt an updated definition of the term “unfair trade practices” that incorporates actions committed in conscious disregard of the law.