SB303 (2006) Detail

Relative to elective angioplasty.


SB 303-FN – AS INTRODUCED

2006 SESSION

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01/09

SENATE BILL 303-FN

AN ACT relative to elective angioplasty.

SPONSORS: Sen. Martel, Dist 18

COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services

ANALYSIS

This bill declares that the health services planning and review board shall not authorize an acute care facility to provide certain elective services unless the facility also provides adult open heart surgery services.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

06-2751

01/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six

AN ACT relative to elective angioplasty.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Paragraph; Health Services Planning and Review Board; Restrictions on Certain Elective Procedures. Amend RSA 151-C:4 by inserting after paragraph VII the following new paragraph:

VIII. The board shall not authorize an acute care facility to provide adult elective interventional cardiac catheterization services unless the facility also provides adult open heart surgery services.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

LBAO

06-2751

Revised 1/31/06

SB 303 FISCAL NOTE

AN ACT relative to elective angioplasty.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The Department of Health and Human Services states they are unable to determine the fiscal impact of this bill on state, county, and local revenue or expenditures.

METHODOLOGY:

The Department states this bill would instruct the Certificate of Need Board not to authorize an acute care facility to provide elective angioplasty unless the facility also provides adult open heart surgery services. The Department assumes any fiscal impact arising from this bill would be related to business and competition issues as opposed to the Department’s licensing requirements, and are unable to determine the fiscal impact at this time.