2002 Senate Bill 1436 ↩

House Roll Call 1254: Passed

To raise the threshold of health provider capital expenditures that require “Certificate of Need” (CON) commission approval; retain the “ad hoc” committee procedures to research issues before the body, with new regulations to expedite the process; expand the CON board from five to 11 members, representing 11 members from various named interest groups; require that at least one Magnetic Resonance Image machine (MRIs) be allowed in all counties with a population of 160,000 or greater; and increase the fees hospitals pay to support the CON. The bill would also provide an exemption to the process to allow the Detroit Medical Center, the Henry Ford Health System, and the Providence/St. Johns Health System to transfer beds from their Detroit to their Oakland County facilities. The state CON program limits the availability of health care facilities and technology by requiring health care providers to seek permission from a state commission for new or expanded facilities, or to add certain pieces of capital-intensive equipment (such as MRIs).