SB405: relative to standards for comprehensive physical rehabilitation service areas.

SB 405-FN - AS INTRODUCED

2004 SESSION

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01/09

SENATE BILL 405-FN

AN ACT relative to standards for comprehensive physical rehabilitation service areas.

SPONSORS: Sen. Green, Dist 6; Sen. Kenney, Dist 3; Sen. Estabrook, Dist 21; Sen. Johnson, Dist 2; Sen. Gallus, Dist 1; Rep. Wall, Straf 72; Rep. Kathleen Taylor, Straf 70

COMMITTEE: Public Institutions, Health and Human Services

ANALYSIS

This bill allows an exception to be made to the moratorium on nursing home beds for comprehensive physical rehabilitation service areas where a need for such rehabilitative service has been determined by the health service planning and review board.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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01/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Four

AN ACT relative to standards for comprehensive physical rehabilitation service areas.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Prohibitions; Certificate of Need. Amend RSA 151-C:4, III(a) to read as follows:

III.(a) No certificate of need shall be granted by the board for any nursing home, skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility or rehabilitation facility from the effective date of chapter 310, laws of 1995, department of health and human services reorganization act, through the period ending December 31, 2006, except that a certificate of need shall be issued for replacement or renovation of existing beds as necessary to meet life safety code requirements or to remedy deficiencies noted in a licensing inspection pursuant to RSA 151 or state survey and certification process pursuant to titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act, and except that a certificate of need may be granted by the board pursuant to its administrative standards for comprehensive physical rehabilitation service areas within regions, including the northern region, where a need for such rehabilitative service has been determined by the board.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

LBAO

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12/16/03

SB 405-FN - FISCAL NOTE

AN ACT relative to standards for comprehensive physical rehabilitation service areas.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The Department of Health and Human Services stated this bill will result in an indeterminable fiscal impact on state and county revenue and expenditures. There will be no fiscal impact on local revenue and expenditures.

METHODOLOGY:

The Department assumed passage of this bill would result in additional facilities in the northern part of the state and in the seacoast area. The Department further assumed there would be low utilization of these services by Medicaid recipients, and therefor, little if any, impact on state and county revenue and expenditures. The Department cannot determine how many applications would be made where new beds would be established, the mix of patients or cost of new facilities and cannot estimate the impact on revenues and expenditures.