Ga. Hospital Groups Open To A Few CON Changes; Critics Say More Needed

The industry ideas for changes were recently put forward by the Georgia Hospital Association and the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals. Both groups have defended the current CON system, which requires a “certificate of need” from state officials for significant health care construction projects to go forward.

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As Georgia lawmakers push to revamp health care regulations, two major hospital groups have proposed some revisions to the state certificate-of-need system.

Those proposals stemmed from months of hospital officials’ discussions on CON, which the industry has relentlessly defended for years in the Georgia General Assembly.

But the hospital recommendations fall far short of the sweeping CON reforms that two legislative committees have recently formulated.