Legislation


HB 1600 (see companion bill SB 953) – Virginia

Status: Inactive / Dead
Year Introduced: 2023
Link: https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1600

Certificate of public need; expedited review process. Requires the Department of Health to establish an expedited review process for certain projects involving addition of imaging equipment, addition of a new ambulatory or outpatient surgery center, addition of operating rooms at an existing ambulatory or outpatient surgery center, and addition of psychiatric beds or conversion of existing beds at a medical care facility to psychiatric beds and requires the Board of Health to include in regulations governing the certificate of public need program a provision for the development of review criteria and standards for specific medical care facilities and health care services for each health planning region that take into account the unique needs and characteristics of such region. The bill also amends the definition of “charity care” and defines “health care service” and “indigent.”


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