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1 1 Section 1. Section 135.61, subsection 14, paragraph f,
1 2 Code 2003, is amended by striking the paragraph.
1 3 Sec. 2. Section 135.61, subsection 20, Code 2003, is
1 4 amended to read as follows:
1 5 20. "Organized outpatient health facility" means a
1 6 facility, not part of a hospital, organized and operated to
1 7 provide health care to noninstitutionalized and nonhomebound
1 8 persons on an outpatient basis; it does not include birth
1 9 centers, private offices or clinics of individual physicians,
1 10 dentists or other practitioners, or groups of practitioners,
1 11 who are health care providers.
1 12 Sec. 3. Section 135.63, subsection 2, Code 2003, is
1 13 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
1 14 NEW PARAGRAPH. q. A birth center or services provided by
1 15 a birth center that is not affiliated with a birthing
1 16 hospital.
1 17 EXPLANATION
1 18 This bill exempts birth centers and services provided by
1 19 birth centers that are not affiliated with birthing hospitals
1 20 from the certificate of need process. The bill specifically
1 21 excludes birth centers from the definition of an "organized
1 22 outpatient health facility" which facilities are subject to
1 23 the certificate of need process.
1 24 LSB 2454SS 80
1 25 pf/cl/14
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