Minnesota Session Laws - 1984, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1984 

                        CHAPTER 541-H.F.No. 2247
           An act relating to public health; exempting increases 
          of less than five swing beds from certificate of need 
          review; amending Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 
          145.833, subdivision 5. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 145.833, 
subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 5.  "Construction or modification" means: 
    (a) Any erection, building, alteration, reconstruction, 
modernization, improvement, extension, lease or other 
acquisition, or any purchase, lease or other acquisition of 
diagnostic or therapeutic equipment, by or on behalf of a health 
care facility which: 
    (1) Requires, or would require if purchased, a total 
capital expenditure, under generally accepted accounting 
principles, in excess of $600,000; or 
    (2) Changes the bed capacity of a health care facility in a 
manner which increases the total number of beds, or distributes 
beds among various categories, or relocates beds from one 
physical facility or site to another, by more than ten beds or 
more than ten percent of the licensed bed capacity, whichever is 
less, or in the case of medicare certified swing beds, by more 
than four beds, over a two year period; 
    (b) The establishment of a new health care facility or any 
predevelopment activity by or on behalf of a health care 
facility which may result in a proposal reviewable according to 
sections 145.832 to 145.845; 
    (c) Any establishment of a new institutional health 
service, excluding home health services, by a health care 
facility which is to be offered in or through a health care 
facility and which was not offered on a regular basis in or 
through that facility within the 12 month period prior to the 
time when that service is intended to be offered;  
     (d) The purchase, lease or other acquisition of diagnostic 
or therapeutic equipment by a licensed medical doctor, a group 
of licensed medical doctors, or a professional corporation of 
licensed medical doctors organized pursuant to chapter 319A, 
which requires, or would require if purchased, a capital 
expenditure in excess of $400,000 for any one item of equipment 
and is determined by the state commissioner of health to be 
designed to circumvent the provisions of sections 145.832 to 
145.845; and 
     (e) The purchase, lease or other acquisition of diagnostic 
or therapeutic equipment by, or on behalf of, a health care 
facility which requires, or would require if purchased, a total 
capital expenditure in excess of $400,000 for any one item of 
equipment. 
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Approved April 25, 1984