North Carolina’s Healthcare Planning Section has provided a first look at the opportunities for new health care development across our State. The 2025 State Medical Facilities Plan (the “2025 SMFP”) is expected to identify...more
North Carolina is poised to enact significant certificate of need (CON) reforms that are expected to eliminate the need to secure CON approvals for the development of new psychiatric and chemical dependency treatment...more
North Carolina will kick off its health planning year when the State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) convenes at the Brown Building in Raleigh at 10 a.m. on March 1, 2023. Read on to learn about the critical junctures in...more
The State Health Coordinating Council met before a packed house on site at the Dix Campus to take its final votes recommending the Need Determinations for new North Carolina health care capacities for 2023.
The...more
Through North Carolina’s annual Healthcare Planning process, providers now have a first look at the opportunities expected to be identified for 2023 Certificate of Need (CON) proposals. The Proposed State Medical Facilities...more
Is your physician group monitoring the Open Payments database? Each June, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases data showcasing the payments made by reporting entities to physician groups and other...more
North Carolina’s State Health Planning process is now in full swing. Spring petitions and proposals have been received and commenters have had their chance to weigh in. Now the Committees are set to convene to discuss the...more
On March 2, the State Health Coordinating Council officially kicked off a new year of planning for development of new health care facilities, services, and equipment for North Carolina. A range of Petitions were filed seeking...more
Providers across North Carolina are watching with interest the constitutional challenge to our state’s Certificate of Need (CON) Law and the ongoing saga of a potential legislative repeal of portions of South Carolina’s CON...more
A conversation with Joy Heath & Joel Johnson -
As the Certificate of Need (CON) year winds down, we look ahead to 2022 and pause to look back at some of the highlights across a robust year of 2021 CON activity....more
1/5/2022
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Planning for new health care capabilities across North Carolina moved ahead with key votes in September by each of the committees of North Carolina’s State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC). Providers interested in new...more
North Carolina’s 2021 State Medical Facilities Plan (SMFP) includes chances for interested providers to apply to acquire new MRI and PET scanners and to add new Operating Room (OR) capacity in the final certificate of need...more
North Carolina planners have given providers their first looks at the health care capabilities the State will likely identify as needed in the 2022 State Medical Facilities Plan (SMFP). As expected in the wake of COVID-19,...more
Predictably, the 2021 Certificate of Need (CON) year in North Carolina has begun with a veritable flurry of activity – what has happened to date and, importantly, what we can expect for the remainder of the 2021 CON year? On...more
Now is the time for providers to consider filing (or re-filing) a Petition as North Carolina’s State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) begins its efforts to prepare the document that will define opportunities to develop...more
Governor Cooper has now approved the 2021 North Carolina State Medical Facilities Plan (the "SMFP"). The SMFP is the definitive annual resource detailing the policies and projections of need for specific health care...more
The proposed 2021 Certificate of Need (CON) schedule is now available, identifying the deadlines likely to apply to CON application filings in the coming year.
Providers interested in new operating rooms, new MRI or PET...more
On September 19, 2020, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a notice (the “Notice”) detailing the specific reporting requirements applicable to all health care providers who received CARES Act...more
Starting August 10, 2020, certain health care providers can act on a welcome announcement from the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) affording additional (or new) opportunities to secure Provider Relief...more
Governor Roy Cooper has extended the 2020 deadlines for North Carolina Certificate of Need (CON) Application filings - in the months remaining in calendar year 2020, applicants have not only the opportunity to seek CON...more
Newly released guidance has brought to light a troubling reality for the health care industry: certain health care providers will likely have to pay back some of the coronavirus relief funding they have...more
Following a $200 million appropriation by Congress in the CARES Act, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to adopt FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s “COVID-19 Telehealth Program” to immediately allow eligible health...more
Now is the time for providers to consider filing (or re-filing) a Petition as North Carolina’s State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) begins its efforts to prepare the document that will define opportunities to develop...more
The North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council’s (SHCC) months-long planning cycle came to an end earlier this month, culminating in Governor Roy Cooper signing the final version of the 2020 State Medical Facilities...more
12/13/2019
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July 24, 2019 marked the deadline for receipt of petitions for adjustments to need determinations and other written comments regarding the Proposed 2020 State Medical Facilities Plan. Timely-filed petitions and comments will...more