States’ Efforts To Alter Arcane Hospital Rules Mix Politics With Drama - KFF Health News
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Georgia is one of dozens of states that require health-care facilities to ask for permission to build or expand by obtaining “certificates of need.” Basically, state regulators get to decide whether a town needs a new hospital or long-term care center. If the need is deemed real, they’re granted a “CON.” The intent of the decades-old system is to reduce duplicating medical services in an area, which, supporters…
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