Legislative TREND: COVID Bids Adieu to Certificates of Need to Build Hospitals

Which Certificates of Need are likely on the policy chopping block? Certificates of Need for Hospitals and health care centers

Why? What are the policy reasons?

• Industry specific requirement that targets only healthcare
• Anti- Competitive to have to prove to a governmental entity that “your competitors don’t have enough capacity and there is an unmet need”

Who supports this? Institute for Justice

How many states have implemented a Certificate of Need requirement for health care facilities since the 1960s? 49. All except Lousiana

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