Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define new terms; require hospitals to disclose prices for certain items and services provided by hospitals; require hospitals to provide descriptions of different services and standard charges of those services; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations, monitor each facility’s compliance, and provide administrative penalties; prohibit collective action of debt for noncompliant facilities.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define new terms; require hospitals to disclose prices for certain items and services provided by hospitals; require hospitals to provide descriptions of different services and standard charges of those services; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations, monitor each facility’s compliance, and provide administrative penalties; prohibit collective action of debt for noncompliant facilities.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require that all health services, equipment, programs, centers, facilities, beds, agencies, technologies, or hospitals listed in the state health plan except nursing facility beds or long-term care beds, to be granted a nonsubstantive review of an application for certificate of need by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services unless otherwise exempt from a certificate of need requirement, regardless of any law to the contrary; require the cabinet to amend the state health plan and any necessary administrative regulations by December 31, 2024.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require that when a certificate of need for a health service or health facility is considered orphaned the need for the health service or health facility shall be presumed, an application by a new entity must be granted a nonsubstantive review, and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services may not receive consideration of opposition from any previous entity that had been granted a certificate of need.

Reestablish the Certificate of Need (CON) Task Force to consider changes to the CON program; establish task force membership; require the task force to submit any findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define “covenant not to compete,” “employee,” and “health service provider”; prohibit a health service provider receiving 10 percent or more of its total gross revenue from state general funds from requiring an employee to enter a covenant not to compete; set forth civil remedy, damages that can be recovered, and limitations to bring claim; require notice of prohibited convenant not to compete be posted by the health service provider; prohibit an employer from retaliating against an employee for bringing a civil action; prohibit any covenant not to complete in effect before the effective date of this Act from being renewed.

Amend KRS 216B.065 to require the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, or the medical systems thereof, to obtain approval from the General Assembly before acquiring a hospital that requires a license issued under KRS 216B.042.

Amend KRS 216B.015 to amend the definition of “capital expenditure minimum” and define “major medical equipment expenditure minimum”; amend KRS 216B.061 to modify conditions under which a person is prohibited from taking actions without a certificate of need.

Amend KRS 216B.020 to add various health facilities and services to the list of health facilities and services that are exempt from certificate of need requirements; amend KRS 216B.065 to exempt various health facilities and services from acquisition of facilities or major medical equipment notification and certificate of need requirements; amend KRS 216.380 to conform.