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Budget Amendments - HB30 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Landes
Co-Patron(s): Bell, Richard, Cline
UVA Hospital (language only)

Item 199 #1h

Item 199 #1h

Education: Higher Education
University of Virginia Medical Center

Language
Page 153, after line 15, insert:
"F. As a condition of this appropriation, no funds shall be expended to provide health related services beyond primary care within fifteen miles of any community hospital system designated by the federal government as a rural referral center through the Code of Federal Regulations under 42 CFR 412.96 or sole community hospital through the Code of Federal Regulations under 42 CFR 412.92 that are duplicative of services provided by that community hospital system, unless approved by the Commissioner of Health as essential to public health and in the public interest."


Explanation
(This amendment clarifies the extent to which the University of Virginia Hospital may offer duplicative healthcare services within close proximity of a federally designated community hospital.)