2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being
Chapter 368z - Office of Health Care Access
Section 19a-643 - (Formerly Sec. 19a-160). Regulations.

(a) The Department of Public Health shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to carry out the provisions of sections 19a-630 to 19a-639e, inclusive, and sections 19a-644 and 19a-645 concerning the submission of data by health care facilities and institutions, including data on dealings between health care facilities and institutions and their affiliates, and, with regard to requests or proposals pursuant to sections 19a-638 to 19a-639e, inclusive, by state health care facilities and institutions, the ongoing inspections by the office of operating budgets that have been approved by the health care facilities and institutions, standard reporting forms and standard accounting procedures to be utilized by health care facilities and institutions and the transferability of line items in the approved operating budgets of the health care facilities and institutions, except that any health care facility or institution may transfer any amounts among items in its operating budget. All such transfers shall be reported to the office within thirty days of the transfer or transfers.

(b) The Department of Public Health may adopt such regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, as are necessary to implement this chapter.

(P.A. 73-117, S. 19, 31; P.A. 77-192, S. 12, 13; 77-304, S. 3; 77-601, S. 8, 11; P.A. 81-465, S. 10, 18; P.A. 83-3, S. 3, 5; P.A. 84-57, S. 2, 4; P.A. 89-371, S. 18; P.A. 91-48, S. 3, 4; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-2, S. 9, 27; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6, S. 8, 117; P.A. 93-262, S. 57, 87; P.A. 95-257, S. 39, 58; P.A. 98-150, S. 9, 17; P.A. 05-151, S. 8; P.A. 06-64, S. 11; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 13; P.A. 10-179, S. 116.)

History: P.A. 77-192 added reference to regulations re requests and proposals pursuant to Secs. 19-73l to 19-73n; P.A. 77-304 added provisions re regulations concerning disclosure of business interests which may have impact on provision of services; P.A. 77-601 added provision re regulation of home health care, homemaker-home health aide and coordination, assessment and monitoring agencies; P.A. 81-465 made commission’s adoption of regulations to carry out its duties mandatory rather than optional; Sec. 19-73r transferred to Sec. 19a-160 in 1983; P.A. 83-3 substituted reference to Sec. 19a-157 for reference to Sec. 19a-156; P.A. 84-57 added the requirement to adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of “sections 19a-161 and 19a-162”; P.A. 89-371 added reference to Sec. 19a-167e, removed an obsolete reference and added language concerning affiliates; P.A. 91-48 removed language directing the commission to adopt regulations requiring full disclosure of business interests which directly or indirectly relate to nursing home operations; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-2 added Subsec. (b) giving commission authority to adopt regulations for the chapter and made technical change in Subsec. (a); May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6 added new Subsec. (c) providing authority for the commission to adopt regulations concerning fees imposed on requests or proposals pursuant to Secs. 19a-154 and 19a-155 and to specify requirements for the fee schedule; P.A. 93-262 removed provision requiring the commission to adopt regulations concerning approval of coordination, assessment and monitoring agencies and regulations concerning rate review of home health care agencies and information based upon recommendations of the commissioner on aging, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commission on Hospitals and Health Care with Office of Health Care Access, effective July 1, 1995; Sec. 19a-160 transferred to Sec. 19a-643 in 1997; P.A. 98-150 amended Subsec. (c) by adding condition that modification request have $100,000 limit and deleting references to Sec. 19a-638, effective June 5, 1998; P.A. 05-151 amended Subsec. (a) by removing reference to repealed Sec. 19a-640 and providing that authority to approve operating budgets rests with facilities and institutions, not with Office of Health Care Access; P.A. 06-64 deleted reference to repealed Sec. 19a-648 in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2006; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) by substituting “Department of Public Health” for “office” and amended Subsec. (c) by substituting “Department of Public Health” for “Office of Health Care Access”, effective October 6, 2009; P.A. 10-179 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “sections 19a-638 and 19a-639” with “sections 19a-638 to 19a-639e, inclusive” and deleted former Subsec. (c) re regulations concerning a fee schedule for certificate of need review.

Annotations to former section 19a-160:

Cited. 200 C. 489; 208 C. 663.