SB 342 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
2/14/02 2617s
21mar02...2949h
2002 SESSION
01/09
SENATE BILL 342
AN ACT relative to medical equipment under the certificate of need law.
This bill increases the amount for major medical equipment from $400,000 to $1,500,000.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
2/14/02 2617s
21mar02...2949h
02-3061
01/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Two
AN ACT relative to medical equipment under the certificate of need law.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Major Medical Equipment; Increase in Amount. Amend RSA 151-C:2, XXIV to read as follows:
XXIV. "Major medical equipment" means a single unit of medical equipment or a single system of components with related functions which is used to provide medical and other health services and which costs more than [$400,000] $1,500,000. In determining whether medical equipment costs more than [$400,000] $1,500,000, the cost of studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, and other activities essential to acquiring the equipment shall be included. If the equipment is acquired for less than fair market value, the term "cost" includes the fair market value.
2 Standards; Equipment; Increase in Amount. Amend RSA 151-C:5, II(d) to read as follows:
(d) The purchase, lease, donation, transfer, or other comparable arrangement by or on behalf of a health care provider of diagnostic or therapeutic equipment for which the cost or, in the case of donation, the value is in excess of [$400,000] $1,500,000 including standards for one or more articles of diagnostic or therapeutic equipment which are necessarily interdependent in the performance of their ordinary functions as determined by the board. The board shall not develop standards for the purchase of equipment which is substantially similar to equipment owned by the provider within the preceding 12 months, provided the equipment will not result in a substantial increase in operating costs above that of the existing or replaced equipment.
3 Exemptions; Equipment. Amend RSA 151-C:13, I(f) to read as follows:
(f) Facilities and services which are intended to serve only outpatients and which do not require construction of greater than the appropriate threshold level, as determined under RSA 151-C:5, II(a) or RSA 151-C:5, II(f) or new equipment costing [more] less than [$400,000] $1,500,000. 4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.