2001 SESSION

01-0418

01/09

SENATE BILL 145

COMMITTEE: Insurance

ANALYSIS

This bill allows ambulatory surgical facilities owned in whole or in part by a hospital to provide accommodations for the overnight stay of patients for up to 72 hours.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

01-0418

01/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

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

1 Ambulatory Surgical Facilities Owned by Hospitals. Amend RSA 151-C:2-a to read as follows:

151-C:2-a Ambulatory Surgical Facilities.

I. An ambulatory surgical facility may provide beds or other accommodations for the overnight stay of up to 5 patients not to exceed 24 hours from the time of admission. Thereafter, an individual patient shall be discharged in an ambulatory condition or shall be transferred to a health care facility. The rules adopted pursuant to 1996, 299:4 regarding quality and safety standards for overnight beds in ambulatory surgical facilities shall remain in effect.

II. Notwithstanding paragraph I, an ambulatory surgical facility owned in whole or in part by a hospital may provide beds or other accommodations for the overnight stay of patients for up to 72 hours from the time of admission. Thereafter, an individual patient shall be discharged in an ambulatory condition or shall be transferred to a health care facility.

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