Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 111 - RULES OF DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH › Chapter 111-2 - HEALTH PLANNING › Subject 111-2-2 - CERTIFICATE OF NEED › Rule 111-2-2-.04 - Periodic Reports

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
The availability of accurate, current data is critical for
				  adequate health planning and for the review process. Therefore, all inpatient
				  and outpatient health care facilities and services subject to Certificate of
				  Need review will be required to provide complete and accurate data, in a timely
				  manner, as required by the Department. Pursuant to O.C.G.A. §
									31-6-70(a), this
				  reporting requirement shall also apply, beginning July 1, 2008, to all
				  ambulatory surgical centers and imaging centers, whether or not exempt from
				  obtaining a Certificate of Need under O.C.G.A. §
									31-6 et seq. and these
				  Rules.
(1)
Annual and Special
				Questionnaires.
(a) All CON-regulated
				facilities and services, as well as all ambulatory surgical centers and imaging
				centers, whether or not exempt from obtaining a Certificate of Need under these
				Rules, shall complete and submit certain surveys annually and periodically to
				the Department, as deemed necessary by the Department.
(b) Any facility offering ambulatory surgery
				pursuant to the exclusion designated on June 30, 2008, as division (14)(G)(iii)
				of O.C.G.A. §
										31-6-2; any diagnostic, treatment,
				or rehabilitation center offering diagnostic imaging or other imaging services
				in operation and exempt prior to July 1, 2008; or any facility operating
				pursuant to a letter of non-reviewability and offering diagnostic imaging
				services prior to July 1, 2008, shall:
1.
				Provide notice to the Department of the name, ownership, location, single
				specialty, and services provided in the exempt facility; and
2. Beginning on January 1, 2009, provide
				annual reports in the same manner and in accordance with the provisions of this
				Rule.
(c) The Department
				shall publish a notice giving a date when the information responsive to
				subsection (b)1. of this Rule by December 30, 2008, or the Department does not
				receive the annual report referenced in subsection (a), and subsection (b)2.,
				of this Rule from a health care facility requiring a Certificate of Need or an
				ambulatory surgical center or imaging center, whether or not exempt from
				obtaining a Certificate of Need under these Rules, on or before the date such
				report is due or receives a timely but incomplete report, the Department shall
				notify the health care facility or center regarding the deficiencies and shall
				be authorized to fine such health care facility or center an amount not to
				exceed $500.00 per day for every day up to thirty (30) days and $1,000.00 per
				day for every day over thirty (30) days for every day the Department has not
				received a report or an incomplete report has not been sufficiently corrected
				based on the Department's notice of deficiencies.
(d) Survey notices will be mailed or
				electronically transmitted by the Department to each such facility. The
				accurately and fully completed survey, covering the report period indicated,
				shall be filed with the Department within the time frame specific in the
				notice. The Survey shall be filed with the Department in the electronic format
				designated by the Department in the Survey Notice or on the Department's
				website. The survey shall include an electronic signature as authorized by law,
				of the chief executive officer or principal administrator of the facility, who
				shall attest to the accuracy and completeness of the information
				provided.
(e) Reporting
				requirements shall also apply to new health facilities and services approved
				through Certificate of Need review. Generally, new facilities and services will
				be required to report if approved for operation or occupancy for sixty (60)
				days or more of the report period.
(f) Surveys submitted to the Department
				pursuant to these Rules and any service-specific Rules shall not be available
				for public review until after the deadline for submission for all surveys of
				that type;
(g) Required surveys
				submitted for a given period of time may not be revised by the facility or
				service after the survey filing deadline unless the request for revision is
				approved by the Department at its sole discretion.
(h) If the Department does not receive an
				annual report from a health care facility within one hundred eighty (180) days
				following the date such report was due or receives a timely but incomplete
				report which is not sufficiently completed within such one hundred eighty (180)
				days, the Department shall be authorized to revoke the Certificate of Need of
				the health care facility in accordance with O.C.G.A. §
										31-6-45 and Ga. Comp. R. &
				Regs. r. 111-2-2-.05.
(i) The Department shall make publicly
				available all annual reports submitted pursuant to O.C.G.A. §
										31-6-70 on the Department website.
				The Department shall also provide a copy of such annual reports to the
				Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
				Representatives, and the chairpersons of the House Committee on Health and
				Human Services and the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
(j) All health care facilities, ambulatory
				surgical centers, and imaging centers required to submit an annual report
				pursuant to O.C.G.A. §
										31-6-70(a) shall
				make such annual reports publicly available on their websites.