For-profit HCA is considering building a 63,000-square-foot facility in Botetourt County to hospitalize the mentally ill and to provide outpatient care.
For-profit HCA is considering building a 63,000-square-foot facility in Botetourt County to hospitalize the mentally ill and to provide outpatient care.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal recently voiced skepticism of Kentucky's Certificate of Need ("CON") laws while simultaneously ruling that they met the Fourteenth Amendment's "rational basis" test.
Kentucky’s CON regulation violated their Fourteenth Amendment right to earn a living, served only the illegitimate end of protecting incumbent home healthcare companies from competition, and lacked a rational basis
Kentucky’s CON regulation violated their Fourteenth Amendment right to earn a living, served only the illegitimate end of protecting incumbent home healthcare companies from competition, and lacked a rational basis