Certificate of need laws were supposed to ensure high-quality health care in rural places. Instead, they allowed hospitals to veto potential competitors.
When Katie Chubb tried to open a new birthing center in Augusta, Georgia, nearly three years ago, she hit an unexpected roadblock. The problem had nothing to…
Certificate of need laws were supposed to ensure high-quality health care in rural places. Instead, they allowed hospitals to veto potential competitors.
(The Center Square) Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed several health care-related bills during a Friday ceremony in Athens, including a measure to relax state requirements regulating health care facilities. The centerpiece of the bills the Republican governor signed was House Bill 1339, which reforms Georgia's decades-old certificate of needs requirement. The measure, in part, shortens
(The Center Square) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed several health care-related bills during a Friday ceremony in Athens, including a measure to relax state requirements regulating health care facilities.