Source: https://code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/44-407.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-20 06:53:21+00:00

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D.C. Law Library - § 44–407. Activities exempt from certificate of need review.
↪ § 44–407. Activities exempt from certificate of need review.
(a) HCFs and persons proposing projects exempted from certificate of need review must file with the SHPDA a letter of notice in accordance with rules promulgated pursuant to § 44-421.
(14) Operation by the Not-For-Profit Hospital Corporation of an ambulatory care clinic in the Bellevue neighborhood of Ward 8. The exemption provided in this paragraph shall expire on September 30, 2017.
(b-1) For the purposes of a project exempt under subsection (b)(13) of this section, the facility shall provide the Department of Mental Health with a copy of the letter of notice required by SHPDA for projects exempt from the certificate of need review.
(C) Allowing the entity acquiring the United Medical Center to establish, within 90 days of July 7, 2010, a skilled-nursing facility with no more than 120 beds in the existing buildings located in the 1300 block of Southern Avenue, S.E.
(2) At least 75% of the patients who can reasonably be expected to receive the health service will be individuals enrolled in the HMO or combination of HMOs.
(d) The District government is exempt from certificate of need requirements until January 1, 1998.
(e) Any proposal to offer or develop a new institutional health service, obligate a new capital expenditure, or reduce or terminate a health service that would otherwise be subject to certificate of need requirements, by a health care entity that has contracted with the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility Management Assistance Authority, or with the Mayor pursuant to § 7-1405, to provide new health care services shall be exempt from certificate of need requirements only for the purpose of maintaining the same level of care and services provided by the District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation (“Public Benefit Corporation”). The exemptions granted by this subsection shall be for a period of 225 days from July 12, 2001, except that proposals to develop trauma I capability to match the levels existing at D.C. General Hospital as of January 1, 2001, shall be exempt from certificate of need requirements for a period of 1 year from July 12, 2001.
(f) The Administrator of the Health Care Safety Net Administration (“Administrator”), established pursuant to § 7-1401, shall determine which new institutional health services, capital expenditures, and reductions or terminations of health services qualify as health care services being taken over from the Public Benefit Corporation. The Administrator’s authority to make determinations and the exemptions from certificate of need review pursuant to subsection (e) shall expire 1 year after the date the first contract for health care services entered into pursuant to § 7-1405 is signed.
(g) The District government and the Public Benefit Corporation are exempt from certificate of need requirements for any changes in health care service that may result from the abolishment of the Public Benefit Corporation.
D.C. Law 14-18 added subsecs. (e), (f) and (g).
D.C. Law 14-56, in subsecs. (b)(7) and (b)(8), made nonsubstantive changes; and added subsec. (b)(9).
D.C. Law 15-149, in subsec. (b), rewrote pars. (1), (3), and (4), repealed par. (6), made nonsubstantive changes in pars. (8) and (9), and added pars. (10), (11), and (12).
D.C. Law 16-33 added subsec. (b)(13).
D.C. Law 19-21 added subsec. (b)(14).
The 2012 amendment by D.C. Law 19-171 redesignated the last sentence in (b)(13) as (b-1); redesignated (b)(14) as (b-2) and made related changes; and added “For the purposes of a project exempt under subsection (b)(13) of this section” in (b-1).
Applicability of D.C. Law 22-273: § 3 of D.C. Law 22-273 provided that the change made to this section by § 2 of D.C. Law 22-273 is subject to the inclusion of the law’s fiscal effect in an approved budget and financial plan. Therefore that amendment has not been implemented.
Applicability of D.C. Law 22-246: § 301 of D.C. Law 22-246 provided that the change made to this section by § 201 of D.C. Law 22-246 is subject to the inclusion of the law’s fiscal effect in an approved budget and financial plan. Therefore that amendment has not been implemented.
For temporary (90-day) amendment of section, see § 2 of the East of Anacostia River Acute Care Hospital Services Emergency Amendment Act of 1999 (D.C. Act 13-189, November 22, 1999, 46 DCR 10412).
For temporary (90-day) amendment of section, see § 2 of the Public Benefit Corporation Certificate of Need Exemption Emergency Amendment Act of 2000 (D.C. Act 13-432, August 14, 2000, 47 DCR 7465).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 2 of the Health Services Planning Program Emergency Amendment Act of 2000 (D.C. Act 13-473, November 7, 2000, 47 DCR 9644).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 16(i)(3) of Department of Mental Health Establishment Emergency Amendment Act of 2001 (D.C. Act 14-55, May 2, 2001, 48 DCR 4390).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 16(i)(3) of Department of Mental Health Establishment Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2001 (D.C. Act 14-101, July 23, 2001, 48 DCR 7123).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 116(i)(3) of Mental Health Service Delivery Reform Congressional Review Emergency Act of 2001 (D.C. Act 14-144, October 23, 2001, 48 DCR 9947).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 2(d) of Health Services Planning and Development Emergency Amendment Act of 2003 (D.C. Act 15-49, March 28, 2003, 50 DCR 2943).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 2(d) of Health Services Planning and Development Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2003 (D.C. Act 15-87, May 19, 2003, 50 DCR 4325).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 2(d) of Health Services Planning and Development Emergency Amendment Act of 2004 (D.C. Act 15-322, January 28, 2004, 51 DCR 1581).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 5123 of Fiscal Year 2006 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2005 (D.C. Act 16-168, July 26, 2005, 52 DCR 7667).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 3(b) of Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program Long-Term Ground Lease Emergency Act of 2006 (D.C. Act 16-529, December 4, 2006, 53 DCR 9833).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 3(b) of Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program Long-Term Ground Lease Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2007 (D.C. Act 17-16, February 20, 2007, 54 DCR 1774).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 2 of Health Service Planning Program Re-establishment Emergency Amendment Act of 2007 (D.C. Act 17-137, October 17, 2007, 54 DCR 10727).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 2 of Health Services Planning Program Re-establishment Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2008 (D.C. Act 17-250, January 23, 2008, 55 DCR 1257).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 2 of Health Services Planning Program Re-establishment Emergency Amendment Act of 2010 (D.C. Act 18-442, June 17, 2010, 57 DCR 5401).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 201 of Not-for-Profit Hospital Corporation Establishment Emergency Amendment Act of 2010 (D.C. Act 18-476, July 7, 2010, 57 DCR 6937).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 201 of Not-for-Profit Hospital Corporation Establishment Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2010 (D.C. Act 18-541, October 4, 2010, 57 DCR 9615).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 2 of Health Services Planning Program Re-establishment Emergency Amendment Act of 2010 (D.C. Act 18-597, November 17, 2010, 57 DCR 11016).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 201 of Not-for-Profit Hospital Corporation Establishment Second Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2010 (D.C. Act 18-668, December 28, 2010, 58 DCR 106).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 201 of Not-for-Profit Hospital Corporation Establishment Emergency Amendment Act of 2011 (D.C. Act 19-73, June 8, 2011, 58 DCR 5080).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 201 of Not-for-Profit Hospital Corporation Establishment Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2011 (D.C. Act 19-128, August 1, 2011, 58 DCR 6772).
For temporary (90 days) amendment of this section, see § 2 of the Long-Term Care Stabilization Emergency Amendment Act of 2014 (D.C. Act 20-444, Oct. 8, 2014, 61 DCR 10755, 20 STAT 4165).
For temporary (90 days) amendment of this section, see § 2 of the Not-For-Profit Hospital Corporation Certificate of Need Exemption Emergency Amendment Act of 2014 (D.C. Act 20-563, Jan. 6, 2015, 62 DCR 491, 21 STAT 525).
For temporary (90 days) amendment of this section, see § 2 of the Not-for-Profit Hospital Corporation Certificate of Need Exemption Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2015 (D.C. Act 21-32, Mar. 27, 2015, 62 DCR 4538, 21 DCSTAT 868).
For temporary (225 day) amendment of section, see § 16(i)(3) of Department of Mental Health Establishment Temporary Amendment Act of 2001 (D.C. Law 14-51, November 3, 2001, law notification 48 DCR 10807).
For temporary (225 day) amendment of section, see § 2(d) of Health Services Planning and Development Temporary Amendment Act of 2003 (D.C. Law 15-19, June 21, 2003, law notification 50 DCR 5463).
Section 5(b) of D.C. Law 16-298 provided that the act shall expire after 225 days of its having taken effect.
Section 4(b) of D.C. Law 17-91 provided that the act shall expire after 225 days of its having taken effect.
“(14) The acquisition of the Washington Center for Aging Services by the Stoddard Baptist Home Foundation, Inc.”.
Section 4(b) of D.C. Law 18-225 provided that the act shall expire after 225 days of its having taken effect.
“(C) Allowing the entity acquiring the United Medical Center to establish, within 90 days of the effective date of the Hospital Act, a skilled nursing facility with no more than 120 beds in the existing buildings located in the 1300 block of Southern Avenue, S.E.”.
For temporary (225 days) amendment of this section, see § 2 of the Not-For-Profit Hospital Corporation Certificate of Need Exemption Temporary Amendment Act of 2015 (D.C. Law 20-253, Apr. 30, 2015, 62 DCR 1960).
Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(10), are codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq. and 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq., respectively.

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