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The latest offering from NCHA on CON Reform looks to increase the monopolistic hold hospitals have in North Carolina according to Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham.
Published: Monday, September 26th, 2022 @ 2:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Critizies Certificate of Need Law for Damaging the Affordability of Medical Care and Patients' Access to Rural Hospitals
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2022 @ 9:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Court of Appeals will not reconsider a New Bern eye surgeon's lawsuit challenging state certificate-of-need restrictions.
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 3:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Senate passes Medicaid Expansion Bill 44-2 on Wednesday. H.B. 149 also includes the SAVE Act, which would address needs in rural areas and giving nurses more independence, and partial repeal of some Certificate of Need Laws
Published: Wednesday, June 8th, 2022 @ 1:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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At least one judge considering the latest certificate-of-need case at the N.C. Court of Appeals sees a key problem with the state’s CON law.
Published: Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 @ 10:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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My research brief today answers nine questions about the remarkably “unremarkable” Certificate of Need (CON) law case just decided in the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Published: Sunday, August 1st, 2021 @ 11:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The purpose of the certificate-of-need law, according to the state health department, is to restrict “unnecessary cost increases” and “limit unnecessary services” in health care across the state.
Published: Monday, July 19th, 2021 @ 5:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Durham County Superior Court judge has dismissed a New Bern eye surgeon’s lawsuit challenging the state’s certificate-of-need law.
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 9:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislation introduced in this session of the General Assembly seeks to reduce restrictions created by certificate of need laws, which critics say reduce access to health care and increase costs.
Published: Wednesday, May 5th, 2021 @ 12:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislation introduced this week would decrease healthcare costs and increase access to medical care for North Carolinians, by eliminating our backwards and restrictive Certificate of Need (CON) laws.
Published: Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 @ 8:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Certificate of Need laws give the state control of medical resources.
Published: Thursday, March 11th, 2021 @ 10:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Certificate of Need laws have ruined governors and exiled the wealthy and the powerful to federal prison.
Published: Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 @ 8:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The coronavirus did what years of lawmaking and lawsuits failed to do — pushed North Carolina to temporarily waive barriers on telemedicine and the controversial certificate of need laws that restrict the supply of health care.
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2020 @ 2:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A doctor suing to overturn restrictions on patient care just won his first victory.
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 @ 6:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It’s illegal for him to treat his patients. By law, he can’t get an MRI machine because the hospital down the street already has one.
Published: Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 @ 10:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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By the time it made it through the Senate, the bill to reform Certificate-of-Need laws had lost most of its teeth.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2019 @ 1:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Senators opposing North Carolina’s onerous certificate-of-need laws have no plans to stop pushing reforms.
Published: Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 @ 12:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative opponents of certificate of need laws are confident. This may be the year they prevail against the restrictive health-care regulations.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 6:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Top-ranking senators have introduced an omnibus health-care bill that would add severely disabled people to the Medicaid rolls and abolish restrictive certificate of need laws.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2019 @ 12:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A North Carolina doctor filed a lawsuit Monday in North Carolina Superior Court to overturn the state's Certificate of Need (CON) laws
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2018 @ 4:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The battle to preserve the state's certificate-of-need laws is about to get personal
Published: Thursday, May 25th, 2017 @ 11:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The push to reform North Carolina's certificate-of-need laws that limit entry into the state's health care market will continue in the upcoming session, state senators say
Published: Saturday, December 31st, 2016 @ 8:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Durham orthopedic surgeon argues that the State Health Plan for public employees wastes a quarter-billion dollars annually because North Carolina's certificate-of-need laws force patients to use hospital-based facilities instead of physician-operated outpatient surgery clinics.
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 @ 5:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Virginia may advance reforms in its Certificate of Public Need licensing laws for medical services as early as this week, if a bill removing anti-competition rules for hospitals passes the state’s House, making it eligible for consideration by the Senate.
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2016 @ 3:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the series "Cut This, Go Home," several items that should have been eliminated from the budget were highlighted to facilitate the budget's passage and to enable legislators to go home sooner.
Published: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 @ 4:02 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina hospitals argue that dismantling regulations in the state's certificate of need laws would impair their ability to treat indigent patients. A research scholar at George Mason University's Mercatus Center says empirical studies conclude such dire warnings are little more than a...
Published: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 @ 9:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday's front page of the News & Observer features the North Carolina Hospital Association, a free-market lobbyist, and legislators battling over pending legislation that could potentially terminate the state's highly bureaucratic Certificate of Need (CON) law. Senator Tom Apodaca favors...
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2015 @ 3:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Removing outdated legal barriers to consumer health care choices could help corral rising Medicaid costs in North Carolina, reform advocates say.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 6:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is easy to understand why North Carolina hospitals are adamant about keeping the state's Certificate of Need (CON) regulations locked in the law books. After all, what law better protects their fortresses from potential competitors who could possibly provide more innovative services in less...
Published: Sunday, December 7th, 2014 @ 6:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Enacted in 1978, North Carolina’s Certificate of Need (CON) law was one of many state CON laws adopted to comply with the federal Health Planning Resources Development Act of 1974.
Published: Friday, November 15th, 2013 @ 8:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dr. William C. Padgett describes how an onerous state regulation is denying the elderly and frail in his community proper care that would enhance their comfort and quality of life.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 @ 1:19 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina and 34 other states have what are called Certificate of Need (CON) Laws. The purpose of CON Laws is to restrict entry into the market for medical facilities and equipment.
Published: Friday, September 28th, 2012 @ 8:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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