2011 Vermont Code
Title 18 Health
Chapter 13 CHRONIC CARE INFRASTRUCTURE AND PREVENTION MEASURE
§ 708 Certification of hospitals

§ 708. Certification of hospitals

(a) The director of health care reform or designee shall establish a process for annually certifying that a hospital meets the participation requirements established under section 707 of this title. Once a hospital is fully connected to the state's health information exchange, the director of health care reform or designee shall waive further certification. The director may require a hospital to resume certification if the criteria for connectivity change, if the hospital loses connectivity to the state's health information exchange, or for another reason which results in the hospital's not meeting the participation requirement in section 707 of this title. The certification process, including the appeal process, shall be completed prior to the hospital budget review required under section 9456 of this title.

(b) Once the hospital has been certified or certification has been waived, the director of health care reform or designee shall provide the hospital with documentation to include in its annual budget review as required by section 9456 of this title.

(c) A denial of certification by the director of health care reform or designee may be appealed to the commissioner of Vermont health access, who shall provide a hearing in accordance with chapter 25 of Title 3. A hospital aggrieved by the decision of the commissioner may appeal to the superior court for the district in which the hospital is located within 30 days after the commissioner issues his or her decision. (Added 2009, No. 128 (Adj. Sess.), { 13.)