2011 Code of Virginia
Title 32.1 HEALTH.
Chapter 4 Health Care Planning (32.1-93 thru 32.1-122.22)
32.1-102.12 Report required

32.1-102.12. Report required.

The Commissioner shall annually report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the status of Virginia's certificate of public need program. The report shall be issued by October 1 of each year and shall include, but need not be limited to:

1. A summary of the Commissioner's actions during the previous fiscal year pursuant to this article;

2. A five-year schedule for analysis of all project categories which provides for analysis of at least three project categories per year;

3. An analysis of the appropriateness of continuing the certificate of public need program for at least three project categories in accordance with the five-year schedule for analysis of all project categories;

4. An analysis of the effectiveness of the application review procedures used by the regional health planning agencies, if any, and the Department required by 32.1-102.6 which details the review time required during the past year for various project categories, the number of contested or opposed applications and the project categories of these contested or opposed projects, the number of applications upon which the regional health planning agencies have failed to act in accordance with the timelines of subsection B of 32.1-102.6, the number of applications reviewed in health planning regions for which no regional health planning agency was designated, and the number of deemed approvals from the Department because of their failure to comply with the timelines required by subsection E of 32.1-102.6, and any other data determined by the Commissioner to be relevant to the efficient operation of the program;

5. An analysis of health care market reform in the Commonwealth and the extent, if any, to which such reform obviates the need for the certificate of public need program;

6. An analysis of the accessibility by the indigent to care provided by the medical care facilities regulated pursuant to this article and the relevance of this article to such access;

7. An analysis of the relevance of this article to the quality of care provided by medical care facilities regulated pursuant to this article; and

8. An analysis of equipment registrations required pursuant to 32.1-102.1:1, including the type of equipment, whether an addition or replacement, and the equipment costs.

(1997, c. 462; 1999, cc. 899, 922; 2009, c. 175.)