This bill exempts certain ambulatory surgical facilities from the requirement to obtain a certificate of need from the Department of Health and Human Services to finance or incur expenditures for a project. An ambulatory surgical facility that is owned or operated by a hospital is exempt from the requirement only if the facility is operated and paid only as an ambulatory surgical facility and does not share space with a hospital or the outpatient surgery department of a critical access hospital, even if the facility and hospital or outpatient surgery department are not open at the same time.

Statutes affected:
Bill Text LD 1890, HP 1261: 22.330