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| 1 | + | CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1780Introduced by Assembly Member CarrilloFebruary 22, 2019 An act to amend Section 1250.8 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1780, as introduced, Carrillo. General acute care hospitals: consolidated licensing.Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate general acute care hospitals. Existing law generally requires the department to issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that meets the requirements for licensure and includes more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises located not more than 15 miles apart. If an applicant provides evidence satisfactory to the department that it can comply with all the requirements for licensure and provide quality care and adequate supervision, existing law authorizes the Director of Public Health, also known as the State Public Health Officer, to issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates 2 or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart under specified circumstances, including that one or more of the physical plants is located in a rural area.This bill would expand the conditions under which the director may issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates 2 or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart to include a general acute care hospital in operation as of July 1, 1983, that is operated by a nonprofit corporation, is certified by the federal Medicare program as a long-term acute care hospital, and is applying to operate a satellite facility at a distance from the main physical plant that complies with specified federal regulations.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 1250.8 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:1250.8. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 127170, the department, upon application of a general acute care hospital that meets all the criteria of subdivision (b), and other applicable requirements of licensure, shall issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that includes more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises or that has multiple licenses for a single health facility on the same premises. A single consolidated license shall not be issued where the separate freestanding physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or an intermediate care facility, whether or not the location of the skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility is contiguous to the general acute care hospital unless the hospital is exempt from the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 1254, or the facility is part of the physical structure licensed to provide acute care.(b) The issuance of a single consolidated license shall be based on the following criteria:(1) There is a single governing body for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee.(2) There is a single administration for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee.(3) There is a single medical staff for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee, with a single set of bylaws, rules, and regulations, which prescribe a single committee structure.(4) Except as provided otherwise in this paragraph, the physical plants maintained and operated by the licensee which that are to be covered by the single consolidated license are located not more than 15 miles apart. If an applicant provides evidence satisfactory to the department that it can comply with all requirements of licensure and provide quality care and adequate administrative and professional supervision, the director may issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates two or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart under any of the following circumstances:(A) One or more of the physical plants is located in a rural area, as defined by regulations of the director.(B) One or more of the physical plants provides only outpatient services, as defined by the department.(C) If Section 14105.986 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is implemented and the applicant meets all of the following criteria:(i) The applicant is a nonprofit corporation.(ii) The applicant is a childrens hospital listed in Section 10727 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.(iii) The applicant is affiliated with a major university medical school and located adjacent thereto.(iv) The applicant operates a regional tertiary care facility.(v) One of the physical plants is located in a county that has a consolidated and county government structure.(vi) One of the physical plants is located in a county having a population between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000.(vii) The applicant is located in a city with a population between 50,000 and 100,000.(D) The applicant is a general acute care hospital in operation as of July 1, 1983, that is operated by a nonprofit corporation, is certified by the federal Medicare program as a long-term acute care hospital, and is applying to operate a satellite facility at a distance from the main physical plant that complies with Section 413.65 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations.(c) In issuing the single consolidated license, the state department shall specify the location of each supplemental service and the location of the number and category of beds provided by the licensee. The single consolidated license shall be renewed annually.(d) To the extent required by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section127125) Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, a general acute care hospital that has been issued a single consolidated license:(1) Shall not transfer from one facility to another a special service described in Section 1255 without first obtaining a certificate of need.(2) Shall not transfer, in whole or in part, from one facility to another, a supplemental service, as defined in regulations of the director pursuant to this chapter, without first obtaining a certificate of need, unless the licensee, 30 days prior to the relocation, notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the state department of the licensees intent to relocate the supplemental service, and includes with this notice a cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which estimates that the cost of the transfer will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170.(3) Shall not transfer beds from one facility to another facility, without first obtaining a certificate of need unless, 30 days prior to the relocation, the licensee notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the state department of the licensees intent to relocate health facility beds, and includes with this notice both of the following:(A) A cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which that estimates that the cost of the relocation will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170.(B) The identification of the number, classification, and location of the health facility beds in the transferor facility and the proposed number, classification, and location of the health facility beds in the transferee facility.Except as otherwise permitted in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, or as authorized in an approved certificate of need pursuant to that chapter, health facility beds transferred pursuant to this section shall be used in the transferee facility in the same bed classification as defined in Section 1250.1, as the beds were classified in the transferor facility.Health facility beds transferred pursuant to this section shall not be transferred back to the transferor facility for two years from the date of the transfer, regardless of cost, without first obtaining a certificate of need pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107.(e) Transfers pursuant to subdivision (d) shall satisfy all applicable requirements of licensure and shall be subject to the written approval, if required, of the state department. The state department may adopt regulations that are necessary to implement this section. These regulations may include a requirement that each facility of a health facility subject to a single consolidated license have an onsite full-time or part-time administrator.(f) As used in this section, facility means a physical plant operated or maintained by a health facility subject to a single, consolidated license issued pursuant to this section.(g) For purposes of selective provider contracts negotiated under the Medi-Cal program, the treatment of a health facility with a single consolidated license issued pursuant to this section shall be subject to negotiation between the health facility and the California Medical Assistance Commission. A general acute care hospital that is issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section may, at its option, be enrolled in the Medi-Cal program as a single business address or as separate business addresses for one or more of the facilities subject to the single consolidated license. Irrespective of whether the general acute care hospital is enrolled at one or more business addresses, the department may require the hospital to file separate cost reports for each facility pursuant to Section 14170 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.(h) For purposes of the Annual Report of Hospitals required by regulations adopted by the state department pursuant to this part, the state department and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development may require reporting of bed and service utilization data separately by each facility of a general acute care hospital issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section.(i) The amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature pertaining to the issuance of a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital in the case where the separate physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall do not apply to the following facilities:(1) A facility that obtained a certificate of need after August 1, 1984, and prior to February 14, 1985, as described in this subdivision. The certificate of need shall be for the construction of a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility that is the same facility for which the hospital applies for a single consolidated license, pursuant to subdivision (a).(2) A facility for which a single consolidated license has been issued pursuant to subdivision (a), as described in this subdivision, prior to the effective date of the amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature.A facility that has been issued a single consolidated license pursuant to subdivision (a), as described in this subdivision, shall be granted renewal licenses based upon the same criteria used for the initial consolidated license.(j) If the state department issues a single consolidated license pursuant to this section, the state department may take any action authorized by this chapter, including, but not limited to, any action specified in Article 5 (commencing with Section 1294), with respect to a facility, or a service provided in a facility, that is included in the consolidated license.(k) The eligibility for participation in the Medi-Cal program (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) of a facility that is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to this section, provides outpatient services, and is located more than 15 miles from the health facility issued the consolidated license shall be subject to a determination of eligibility by the state department. This subdivision shall not apply to a facility that is located in a rural area and is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b). Regardless of whether a facility has received or not received a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, this subdivision shall not affect the ability of a licensed professional, providing services covered by the Medi-Cal program to a person eligible for Medi-Cal in a facility subject to a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, to bill the Medi-Cal program for those services provided in accordance with applicable regulations.(l) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and San Ramon Regional Medical Center.(m) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus.(n) (1) To the extent permitted by federal law, payments made to Childrens Hospital Oakland pursuant to Section 14166.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall be adjusted as follows:(A) The number of Medi-Cal payment days and net revenues calculated for the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus under the consolidated license shall not be used for eligibility purposes for the private hospital disproportionate share hospital replacement funds for Childrens Hospital Oakland.(B) The number of Medi-Cal payment days calculated for hospital beds located at John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus that are included in the consolidated license beginning in the 200708 fiscal year shall only be used for purposes of calculating disproportionate share hospital payments authorized under Section 14166.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code at Childrens Hospital Oakland to the extent that the inclusion of those days does not exceed the total Medi-Cal payment days used to calculate Childrens Hospital Oakland payments for the 200607 fiscal year disproportionate share replacement.(2) This subdivision shall become inoperative in the event that the two facilities covered under the consolidated license described in subdivision (a) are located within a 15-mile radius of each other. | |
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| 3 | + | CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1780Introduced by Assembly Member CarrilloFebruary 22, 2019 An act to amend Section 1250.8 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1780, as introduced, Carrillo. General acute care hospitals: consolidated licensing.Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate general acute care hospitals. Existing law generally requires the department to issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that meets the requirements for licensure and includes more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises located not more than 15 miles apart. If an applicant provides evidence satisfactory to the department that it can comply with all the requirements for licensure and provide quality care and adequate supervision, existing law authorizes the Director of Public Health, also known as the State Public Health Officer, to issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates 2 or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart under specified circumstances, including that one or more of the physical plants is located in a rural area.This bill would expand the conditions under which the director may issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates 2 or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart to include a general acute care hospital in operation as of July 1, 1983, that is operated by a nonprofit corporation, is certified by the federal Medicare program as a long-term acute care hospital, and is applying to operate a satellite facility at a distance from the main physical plant that complies with specified federal regulations.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO | |
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| 18 | + | An act to amend Section 1250.8 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities. | |
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| 24 | + | AB 1780, as introduced, Carrillo. General acute care hospitals: consolidated licensing. | |
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| 28 | - | Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate each health facility, defined to mean a facility, place, or building that is organized, maintained, and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention, and treatment of human illness, and includes, among others, a general acute care hospital, an acute psychiatric hospital, and a special hospital. Existing law defines a special hospital as a health facility having a duly constituted governing body with overall administrative and professional responsibility and an organized medical or dental staff that provides inpatient or outpatient care in dentistry or maternity.This bill would expand the meaning of special hospital to include inpatient or outpatient respiratory care.Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate general acute care hospitals. Existing law generally requires the department to issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that meets the requirements for licensure and includes more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises located not more than 15 miles apart. If an applicant provides evidence satisfactory to the department that it can comply with all the requirements for licensure and provide quality care and adequate supervision, existing law authorizes the Director of Public Health, also known as the State Public Health Officer, to issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates 2 or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart under specified circumstances, including that one or more of the physical plants is located in a rural area.This bill would expand the conditions under which the director may issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates 2 or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart to include a general acute care hospital in operation as of July 1, 1983, that is operated by a nonprofit corporation, is certified by the federal Medicare program as a long-term acute care hospital, and is applying to operate a satellite facility at a distance from the main physical plant that complies with specified federal regulations. | |
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| 30 | - | Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate each health facility, defined to mean a facility, place, or building that is organized, maintained, and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention, and treatment of human illness, and includes, among others, a general acute care hospital, an acute psychiatric hospital, and a special hospital. Existing law defines a special hospital as a health facility having a duly constituted governing body with overall administrative and professional responsibility and an organized medical or dental staff that provides inpatient or outpatient care in dentistry or maternity. | |
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| 32 | - | This bill would expand the meaning of special hospital to include inpatient or outpatient respiratory care. | |
| 26 | + | Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate general acute care hospitals. Existing law generally requires the department to issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that meets the requirements for licensure and includes more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises located not more than 15 miles apart. If an applicant provides evidence satisfactory to the department that it can comply with all the requirements for licensure and provide quality care and adequate supervision, existing law authorizes the Director of Public Health, also known as the State Public Health Officer, to issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates 2 or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart under specified circumstances, including that one or more of the physical plants is located in a rural area.This bill would expand the conditions under which the director may issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates 2 or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart to include a general acute care hospital in operation as of July 1, 1983, that is operated by a nonprofit corporation, is certified by the federal Medicare program as a long-term acute care hospital, and is applying to operate a satellite facility at a distance from the main physical plant that complies with specified federal regulations. | |
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| 34 | 28 | Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate general acute care hospitals. Existing law generally requires the department to issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that meets the requirements for licensure and includes more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises located not more than 15 miles apart. If an applicant provides evidence satisfactory to the department that it can comply with all the requirements for licensure and provide quality care and adequate supervision, existing law authorizes the Director of Public Health, also known as the State Public Health Officer, to issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates 2 or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart under specified circumstances, including that one or more of the physical plants is located in a rural area. | |
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| 38 | 30 | This bill would expand the conditions under which the director may issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates 2 or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart to include a general acute care hospital in operation as of July 1, 1983, that is operated by a nonprofit corporation, is certified by the federal Medicare program as a long-term acute care hospital, and is applying to operate a satellite facility at a distance from the main physical plant that complies with specified federal regulations. | |
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| 46 | - | The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:1250. | |
| 36 | + | The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 1250.8 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:1250.8. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 127170, the department, upon application of a general acute care hospital that meets all the criteria of subdivision (b), and other applicable requirements of licensure, shall issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that includes more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises or that has multiple licenses for a single health facility on the same premises. A single consolidated license shall not be issued where the separate freestanding physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or an intermediate care facility, whether or not the location of the skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility is contiguous to the general acute care hospital unless the hospital is exempt from the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 1254, or the facility is part of the physical structure licensed to provide acute care.(b) The issuance of a single consolidated license shall be based on the following criteria:(1) There is a single governing body for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee.(2) There is a single administration for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee.(3) There is a single medical staff for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee, with a single set of bylaws, rules, and regulations, which prescribe a single committee structure.(4) Except as provided otherwise in this paragraph, the physical plants maintained and operated by the licensee which that are to be covered by the single consolidated license are located not more than 15 miles apart. If an applicant provides evidence satisfactory to the department that it can comply with all requirements of licensure and provide quality care and adequate administrative and professional supervision, the director may issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates two or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart under any of the following circumstances:(A) One or more of the physical plants is located in a rural area, as defined by regulations of the director.(B) One or more of the physical plants provides only outpatient services, as defined by the department.(C) If Section 14105.986 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is implemented and the applicant meets all of the following criteria:(i) The applicant is a nonprofit corporation.(ii) The applicant is a childrens hospital listed in Section 10727 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.(iii) The applicant is affiliated with a major university medical school and located adjacent thereto.(iv) The applicant operates a regional tertiary care facility.(v) One of the physical plants is located in a county that has a consolidated and county government structure.(vi) One of the physical plants is located in a county having a population between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000.(vii) The applicant is located in a city with a population between 50,000 and 100,000.(D) The applicant is a general acute care hospital in operation as of July 1, 1983, that is operated by a nonprofit corporation, is certified by the federal Medicare program as a long-term acute care hospital, and is applying to operate a satellite facility at a distance from the main physical plant that complies with Section 413.65 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations.(c) In issuing the single consolidated license, the state department shall specify the location of each supplemental service and the location of the number and category of beds provided by the licensee. The single consolidated license shall be renewed annually.(d) To the extent required by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section127125) Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, a general acute care hospital that has been issued a single consolidated license:(1) Shall not transfer from one facility to another a special service described in Section 1255 without first obtaining a certificate of need.(2) Shall not transfer, in whole or in part, from one facility to another, a supplemental service, as defined in regulations of the director pursuant to this chapter, without first obtaining a certificate of need, unless the licensee, 30 days prior to the relocation, notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the state department of the licensees intent to relocate the supplemental service, and includes with this notice a cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which estimates that the cost of the transfer will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170.(3) Shall not transfer beds from one facility to another facility, without first obtaining a certificate of need unless, 30 days prior to the relocation, the licensee notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the state department of the licensees intent to relocate health facility beds, and includes with this notice both of the following:(A) A cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which that estimates that the cost of the relocation will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170.(B) The identification of the number, classification, and location of the health facility beds in the transferor facility and the proposed number, classification, and location of the health facility beds in the transferee facility.Except as otherwise permitted in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, or as authorized in an approved certificate of need pursuant to that chapter, health facility beds transferred pursuant to this section shall be used in the transferee facility in the same bed classification as defined in Section 1250.1, as the beds were classified in the transferor facility.Health facility beds transferred pursuant to this section shall not be transferred back to the transferor facility for two years from the date of the transfer, regardless of cost, without first obtaining a certificate of need pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107.(e) Transfers pursuant to subdivision (d) shall satisfy all applicable requirements of licensure and shall be subject to the written approval, if required, of the state department. The state department may adopt regulations that are necessary to implement this section. These regulations may include a requirement that each facility of a health facility subject to a single consolidated license have an onsite full-time or part-time administrator.(f) As used in this section, facility means a physical plant operated or maintained by a health facility subject to a single, consolidated license issued pursuant to this section.(g) For purposes of selective provider contracts negotiated under the Medi-Cal program, the treatment of a health facility with a single consolidated license issued pursuant to this section shall be subject to negotiation between the health facility and the California Medical Assistance Commission. A general acute care hospital that is issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section may, at its option, be enrolled in the Medi-Cal program as a single business address or as separate business addresses for one or more of the facilities subject to the single consolidated license. Irrespective of whether the general acute care hospital is enrolled at one or more business addresses, the department may require the hospital to file separate cost reports for each facility pursuant to Section 14170 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.(h) For purposes of the Annual Report of Hospitals required by regulations adopted by the state department pursuant to this part, the state department and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development may require reporting of bed and service utilization data separately by each facility of a general acute care hospital issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section.(i) The amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature pertaining to the issuance of a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital in the case where the separate physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall do not apply to the following facilities:(1) A facility that obtained a certificate of need after August 1, 1984, and prior to February 14, 1985, as described in this subdivision. The certificate of need shall be for the construction of a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility that is the same facility for which the hospital applies for a single consolidated license, pursuant to subdivision (a).(2) A facility for which a single consolidated license has been issued pursuant to subdivision (a), as described in this subdivision, prior to the effective date of the amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature.A facility that has been issued a single consolidated license pursuant to subdivision (a), as described in this subdivision, shall be granted renewal licenses based upon the same criteria used for the initial consolidated license.(j) If the state department issues a single consolidated license pursuant to this section, the state department may take any action authorized by this chapter, including, but not limited to, any action specified in Article 5 (commencing with Section 1294), with respect to a facility, or a service provided in a facility, that is included in the consolidated license.(k) The eligibility for participation in the Medi-Cal program (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) of a facility that is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to this section, provides outpatient services, and is located more than 15 miles from the health facility issued the consolidated license shall be subject to a determination of eligibility by the state department. This subdivision shall not apply to a facility that is located in a rural area and is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b). Regardless of whether a facility has received or not received a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, this subdivision shall not affect the ability of a licensed professional, providing services covered by the Medi-Cal program to a person eligible for Medi-Cal in a facility subject to a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, to bill the Medi-Cal program for those services provided in accordance with applicable regulations.(l) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and San Ramon Regional Medical Center.(m) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus.(n) (1) To the extent permitted by federal law, payments made to Childrens Hospital Oakland pursuant to Section 14166.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall be adjusted as follows:(A) The number of Medi-Cal payment days and net revenues calculated for the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus under the consolidated license shall not be used for eligibility purposes for the private hospital disproportionate share hospital replacement funds for Childrens Hospital Oakland.(B) The number of Medi-Cal payment days calculated for hospital beds located at John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus that are included in the consolidated license beginning in the 200708 fiscal year shall only be used for purposes of calculating disproportionate share hospital payments authorized under Section 14166.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code at Childrens Hospital Oakland to the extent that the inclusion of those days does not exceed the total Medi-Cal payment days used to calculate Childrens Hospital Oakland payments for the 200607 fiscal year disproportionate share replacement.(2) This subdivision shall become inoperative in the event that the two facilities covered under the consolidated license described in subdivision (a) are located within a 15-mile radius of each other. | |
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| 48 | 38 | The people of the State of California do enact as follows: | |
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| 52 | - | SECTION 1. Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:1250. As used in this chapter | |
| 42 | + | SECTION 1. Section 1250.8 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:1250.8. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 127170, the department, upon application of a general acute care hospital that meets all the criteria of subdivision (b), and other applicable requirements of licensure, shall issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that includes more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises or that has multiple licenses for a single health facility on the same premises. A single consolidated license shall not be issued where the separate freestanding physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or an intermediate care facility, whether or not the location of the skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility is contiguous to the general acute care hospital unless the hospital is exempt from the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 1254, or the facility is part of the physical structure licensed to provide acute care.(b) The issuance of a single consolidated license shall be based on the following criteria:(1) There is a single governing body for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee.(2) There is a single administration for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee.(3) There is a single medical staff for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee, with a single set of bylaws, rules, and regulations, which prescribe a single committee structure.(4) Except as provided otherwise in this paragraph, the physical plants maintained and operated by the licensee which that are to be covered by the single consolidated license are located not more than 15 miles apart. If an applicant provides evidence satisfactory to the department that it can comply with all requirements of licensure and provide quality care and adequate administrative and professional supervision, the director may issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates two or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart under any of the following circumstances:(A) One or more of the physical plants is located in a rural area, as defined by regulations of the director.(B) One or more of the physical plants provides only outpatient services, as defined by the department.(C) If Section 14105.986 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is implemented and the applicant meets all of the following criteria:(i) The applicant is a nonprofit corporation.(ii) The applicant is a childrens hospital listed in Section 10727 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.(iii) The applicant is affiliated with a major university medical school and located adjacent thereto.(iv) The applicant operates a regional tertiary care facility.(v) One of the physical plants is located in a county that has a consolidated and county government structure.(vi) One of the physical plants is located in a county having a population between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000.(vii) The applicant is located in a city with a population between 50,000 and 100,000.(D) The applicant is a general acute care hospital in operation as of July 1, 1983, that is operated by a nonprofit corporation, is certified by the federal Medicare program as a long-term acute care hospital, and is applying to operate a satellite facility at a distance from the main physical plant that complies with Section 413.65 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations.(c) In issuing the single consolidated license, the state department shall specify the location of each supplemental service and the location of the number and category of beds provided by the licensee. The single consolidated license shall be renewed annually.(d) To the extent required by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section127125) Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, a general acute care hospital that has been issued a single consolidated license:(1) Shall not transfer from one facility to another a special service described in Section 1255 without first obtaining a certificate of need.(2) Shall not transfer, in whole or in part, from one facility to another, a supplemental service, as defined in regulations of the director pursuant to this chapter, without first obtaining a certificate of need, unless the licensee, 30 days prior to the relocation, notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the state department of the licensees intent to relocate the supplemental service, and includes with this notice a cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which estimates that the cost of the transfer will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170.(3) Shall not transfer beds from one facility to another facility, without first obtaining a certificate of need unless, 30 days prior to the relocation, the licensee notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the state department of the licensees intent to relocate health facility beds, and includes with this notice both of the following:(A) A cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which that estimates that the cost of the relocation will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170.(B) The identification of the number, classification, and location of the health facility beds in the transferor facility and the proposed number, classification, and location of the health facility beds in the transferee facility.Except as otherwise permitted in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, or as authorized in an approved certificate of need pursuant to that chapter, health facility beds transferred pursuant to this section shall be used in the transferee facility in the same bed classification as defined in Section 1250.1, as the beds were classified in the transferor facility.Health facility beds transferred pursuant to this section shall not be transferred back to the transferor facility for two years from the date of the transfer, regardless of cost, without first obtaining a certificate of need pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107.(e) Transfers pursuant to subdivision (d) shall satisfy all applicable requirements of licensure and shall be subject to the written approval, if required, of the state department. The state department may adopt regulations that are necessary to implement this section. These regulations may include a requirement that each facility of a health facility subject to a single consolidated license have an onsite full-time or part-time administrator.(f) As used in this section, facility means a physical plant operated or maintained by a health facility subject to a single, consolidated license issued pursuant to this section.(g) For purposes of selective provider contracts negotiated under the Medi-Cal program, the treatment of a health facility with a single consolidated license issued pursuant to this section shall be subject to negotiation between the health facility and the California Medical Assistance Commission. A general acute care hospital that is issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section may, at its option, be enrolled in the Medi-Cal program as a single business address or as separate business addresses for one or more of the facilities subject to the single consolidated license. Irrespective of whether the general acute care hospital is enrolled at one or more business addresses, the department may require the hospital to file separate cost reports for each facility pursuant to Section 14170 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.(h) For purposes of the Annual Report of Hospitals required by regulations adopted by the state department pursuant to this part, the state department and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development may require reporting of bed and service utilization data separately by each facility of a general acute care hospital issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section.(i) The amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature pertaining to the issuance of a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital in the case where the separate physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall do not apply to the following facilities:(1) A facility that obtained a certificate of need after August 1, 1984, and prior to February 14, 1985, as described in this subdivision. The certificate of need shall be for the construction of a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility that is the same facility for which the hospital applies for a single consolidated license, pursuant to subdivision (a).(2) A facility for which a single consolidated license has been issued pursuant to subdivision (a), as described in this subdivision, prior to the effective date of the amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature.A facility that has been issued a single consolidated license pursuant to subdivision (a), as described in this subdivision, shall be granted renewal licenses based upon the same criteria used for the initial consolidated license.(j) If the state department issues a single consolidated license pursuant to this section, the state department may take any action authorized by this chapter, including, but not limited to, any action specified in Article 5 (commencing with Section 1294), with respect to a facility, or a service provided in a facility, that is included in the consolidated license.(k) The eligibility for participation in the Medi-Cal program (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) of a facility that is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to this section, provides outpatient services, and is located more than 15 miles from the health facility issued the consolidated license shall be subject to a determination of eligibility by the state department. This subdivision shall not apply to a facility that is located in a rural area and is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b). Regardless of whether a facility has received or not received a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, this subdivision shall not affect the ability of a licensed professional, providing services covered by the Medi-Cal program to a person eligible for Medi-Cal in a facility subject to a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, to bill the Medi-Cal program for those services provided in accordance with applicable regulations.(l) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and San Ramon Regional Medical Center.(m) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus.(n) (1) To the extent permitted by federal law, payments made to Childrens Hospital Oakland pursuant to Section 14166.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall be adjusted as follows:(A) The number of Medi-Cal payment days and net revenues calculated for the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus under the consolidated license shall not be used for eligibility purposes for the private hospital disproportionate share hospital replacement funds for Childrens Hospital Oakland.(B) The number of Medi-Cal payment days calculated for hospital beds located at John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus that are included in the consolidated license beginning in the 200708 fiscal year shall only be used for purposes of calculating disproportionate share hospital payments authorized under Section 14166.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code at Childrens Hospital Oakland to the extent that the inclusion of those days does not exceed the total Medi-Cal payment days used to calculate Childrens Hospital Oakland payments for the 200607 fiscal year disproportionate share replacement.(2) This subdivision shall become inoperative in the event that the two facilities covered under the consolidated license described in subdivision (a) are located within a 15-mile radius of each other. | |
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| 54 | - | SECTION 1. Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: | |
| 44 | + | SECTION 1. Section 1250.8 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: | |
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| 58 | - | 1250. As used in this chapter | |
| 48 | + | 1250.8. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 127170, the department, upon application of a general acute care hospital that meets all the criteria of subdivision (b), and other applicable requirements of licensure, shall issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that includes more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises or that has multiple licenses for a single health facility on the same premises. A single consolidated license shall not be issued where the separate freestanding physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or an intermediate care facility, whether or not the location of the skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility is contiguous to the general acute care hospital unless the hospital is exempt from the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 1254, or the facility is part of the physical structure licensed to provide acute care.(b) The issuance of a single consolidated license shall be based on the following criteria:(1) There is a single governing body for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee.(2) There is a single administration for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee.(3) There is a single medical staff for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee, with a single set of bylaws, rules, and regulations, which prescribe a single committee structure.(4) Except as provided otherwise in this paragraph, the physical plants maintained and operated by the licensee which that are to be covered by the single consolidated license are located not more than 15 miles apart. If an applicant provides evidence satisfactory to the department that it can comply with all requirements of licensure and provide quality care and adequate administrative and professional supervision, the director may issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates two or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart under any of the following circumstances:(A) One or more of the physical plants is located in a rural area, as defined by regulations of the director.(B) One or more of the physical plants provides only outpatient services, as defined by the department.(C) If Section 14105.986 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is implemented and the applicant meets all of the following criteria:(i) The applicant is a nonprofit corporation.(ii) The applicant is a childrens hospital listed in Section 10727 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.(iii) The applicant is affiliated with a major university medical school and located adjacent thereto.(iv) The applicant operates a regional tertiary care facility.(v) One of the physical plants is located in a county that has a consolidated and county government structure.(vi) One of the physical plants is located in a county having a population between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000.(vii) The applicant is located in a city with a population between 50,000 and 100,000.(D) The applicant is a general acute care hospital in operation as of July 1, 1983, that is operated by a nonprofit corporation, is certified by the federal Medicare program as a long-term acute care hospital, and is applying to operate a satellite facility at a distance from the main physical plant that complies with Section 413.65 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations.(c) In issuing the single consolidated license, the state department shall specify the location of each supplemental service and the location of the number and category of beds provided by the licensee. The single consolidated license shall be renewed annually.(d) To the extent required by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section127125) Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, a general acute care hospital that has been issued a single consolidated license:(1) Shall not transfer from one facility to another a special service described in Section 1255 without first obtaining a certificate of need.(2) Shall not transfer, in whole or in part, from one facility to another, a supplemental service, as defined in regulations of the director pursuant to this chapter, without first obtaining a certificate of need, unless the licensee, 30 days prior to the relocation, notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the state department of the licensees intent to relocate the supplemental service, and includes with this notice a cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which estimates that the cost of the transfer will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170.(3) Shall not transfer beds from one facility to another facility, without first obtaining a certificate of need unless, 30 days prior to the relocation, the licensee notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the state department of the licensees intent to relocate health facility beds, and includes with this notice both of the following:(A) A cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which that estimates that the cost of the relocation will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170.(B) The identification of the number, classification, and location of the health facility beds in the transferor facility and the proposed number, classification, and location of the health facility beds in the transferee facility.Except as otherwise permitted in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, or as authorized in an approved certificate of need pursuant to that chapter, health facility beds transferred pursuant to this section shall be used in the transferee facility in the same bed classification as defined in Section 1250.1, as the beds were classified in the transferor facility.Health facility beds transferred pursuant to this section shall not be transferred back to the transferor facility for two years from the date of the transfer, regardless of cost, without first obtaining a certificate of need pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107.(e) Transfers pursuant to subdivision (d) shall satisfy all applicable requirements of licensure and shall be subject to the written approval, if required, of the state department. The state department may adopt regulations that are necessary to implement this section. These regulations may include a requirement that each facility of a health facility subject to a single consolidated license have an onsite full-time or part-time administrator.(f) As used in this section, facility means a physical plant operated or maintained by a health facility subject to a single, consolidated license issued pursuant to this section.(g) For purposes of selective provider contracts negotiated under the Medi-Cal program, the treatment of a health facility with a single consolidated license issued pursuant to this section shall be subject to negotiation between the health facility and the California Medical Assistance Commission. A general acute care hospital that is issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section may, at its option, be enrolled in the Medi-Cal program as a single business address or as separate business addresses for one or more of the facilities subject to the single consolidated license. Irrespective of whether the general acute care hospital is enrolled at one or more business addresses, the department may require the hospital to file separate cost reports for each facility pursuant to Section 14170 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.(h) For purposes of the Annual Report of Hospitals required by regulations adopted by the state department pursuant to this part, the state department and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development may require reporting of bed and service utilization data separately by each facility of a general acute care hospital issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section.(i) The amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature pertaining to the issuance of a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital in the case where the separate physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall do not apply to the following facilities:(1) A facility that obtained a certificate of need after August 1, 1984, and prior to February 14, 1985, as described in this subdivision. The certificate of need shall be for the construction of a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility that is the same facility for which the hospital applies for a single consolidated license, pursuant to subdivision (a).(2) A facility for which a single consolidated license has been issued pursuant to subdivision (a), as described in this subdivision, prior to the effective date of the amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature.A facility that has been issued a single consolidated license pursuant to subdivision (a), as described in this subdivision, shall be granted renewal licenses based upon the same criteria used for the initial consolidated license.(j) If the state department issues a single consolidated license pursuant to this section, the state department may take any action authorized by this chapter, including, but not limited to, any action specified in Article 5 (commencing with Section 1294), with respect to a facility, or a service provided in a facility, that is included in the consolidated license.(k) The eligibility for participation in the Medi-Cal program (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) of a facility that is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to this section, provides outpatient services, and is located more than 15 miles from the health facility issued the consolidated license shall be subject to a determination of eligibility by the state department. This subdivision shall not apply to a facility that is located in a rural area and is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b). Regardless of whether a facility has received or not received a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, this subdivision shall not affect the ability of a licensed professional, providing services covered by the Medi-Cal program to a person eligible for Medi-Cal in a facility subject to a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, to bill the Medi-Cal program for those services provided in accordance with applicable regulations.(l) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and San Ramon Regional Medical Center.(m) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus.(n) (1) To the extent permitted by federal law, payments made to Childrens Hospital Oakland pursuant to Section 14166.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall be adjusted as follows:(A) The number of Medi-Cal payment days and net revenues calculated for the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus under the consolidated license shall not be used for eligibility purposes for the private hospital disproportionate share hospital replacement funds for Childrens Hospital Oakland.(B) The number of Medi-Cal payment days calculated for hospital beds located at John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus that are included in the consolidated license beginning in the 200708 fiscal year shall only be used for purposes of calculating disproportionate share hospital payments authorized under Section 14166.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code at Childrens Hospital Oakland to the extent that the inclusion of those days does not exceed the total Medi-Cal payment days used to calculate Childrens Hospital Oakland payments for the 200607 fiscal year disproportionate share replacement.(2) This subdivision shall become inoperative in the event that the two facilities covered under the consolidated license described in subdivision (a) are located within a 15-mile radius of each other. | |
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| 60 | - | 1250. As used in this chapter | |
| 50 | + | 1250.8. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 127170, the department, upon application of a general acute care hospital that meets all the criteria of subdivision (b), and other applicable requirements of licensure, shall issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that includes more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises or that has multiple licenses for a single health facility on the same premises. A single consolidated license shall not be issued where the separate freestanding physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or an intermediate care facility, whether or not the location of the skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility is contiguous to the general acute care hospital unless the hospital is exempt from the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 1254, or the facility is part of the physical structure licensed to provide acute care.(b) The issuance of a single consolidated license shall be based on the following criteria:(1) There is a single governing body for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee.(2) There is a single administration for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee.(3) There is a single medical staff for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee, with a single set of bylaws, rules, and regulations, which prescribe a single committee structure.(4) Except as provided otherwise in this paragraph, the physical plants maintained and operated by the licensee which that are to be covered by the single consolidated license are located not more than 15 miles apart. If an applicant provides evidence satisfactory to the department that it can comply with all requirements of licensure and provide quality care and adequate administrative and professional supervision, the director may issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates two or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart under any of the following circumstances:(A) One or more of the physical plants is located in a rural area, as defined by regulations of the director.(B) One or more of the physical plants provides only outpatient services, as defined by the department.(C) If Section 14105.986 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is implemented and the applicant meets all of the following criteria:(i) The applicant is a nonprofit corporation.(ii) The applicant is a childrens hospital listed in Section 10727 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.(iii) The applicant is affiliated with a major university medical school and located adjacent thereto.(iv) The applicant operates a regional tertiary care facility.(v) One of the physical plants is located in a county that has a consolidated and county government structure.(vi) One of the physical plants is located in a county having a population between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000.(vii) The applicant is located in a city with a population between 50,000 and 100,000.(D) The applicant is a general acute care hospital in operation as of July 1, 1983, that is operated by a nonprofit corporation, is certified by the federal Medicare program as a long-term acute care hospital, and is applying to operate a satellite facility at a distance from the main physical plant that complies with Section 413.65 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations.(c) In issuing the single consolidated license, the state department shall specify the location of each supplemental service and the location of the number and category of beds provided by the licensee. The single consolidated license shall be renewed annually.(d) To the extent required by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section127125) Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, a general acute care hospital that has been issued a single consolidated license:(1) Shall not transfer from one facility to another a special service described in Section 1255 without first obtaining a certificate of need.(2) Shall not transfer, in whole or in part, from one facility to another, a supplemental service, as defined in regulations of the director pursuant to this chapter, without first obtaining a certificate of need, unless the licensee, 30 days prior to the relocation, notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the state department of the licensees intent to relocate the supplemental service, and includes with this notice a cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which estimates that the cost of the transfer will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170.(3) Shall not transfer beds from one facility to another facility, without first obtaining a certificate of need unless, 30 days prior to the relocation, the licensee notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the state department of the licensees intent to relocate health facility beds, and includes with this notice both of the following:(A) A cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which that estimates that the cost of the relocation will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170.(B) The identification of the number, classification, and location of the health facility beds in the transferor facility and the proposed number, classification, and location of the health facility beds in the transferee facility.Except as otherwise permitted in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, or as authorized in an approved certificate of need pursuant to that chapter, health facility beds transferred pursuant to this section shall be used in the transferee facility in the same bed classification as defined in Section 1250.1, as the beds were classified in the transferor facility.Health facility beds transferred pursuant to this section shall not be transferred back to the transferor facility for two years from the date of the transfer, regardless of cost, without first obtaining a certificate of need pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107.(e) Transfers pursuant to subdivision (d) shall satisfy all applicable requirements of licensure and shall be subject to the written approval, if required, of the state department. The state department may adopt regulations that are necessary to implement this section. These regulations may include a requirement that each facility of a health facility subject to a single consolidated license have an onsite full-time or part-time administrator.(f) As used in this section, facility means a physical plant operated or maintained by a health facility subject to a single, consolidated license issued pursuant to this section.(g) For purposes of selective provider contracts negotiated under the Medi-Cal program, the treatment of a health facility with a single consolidated license issued pursuant to this section shall be subject to negotiation between the health facility and the California Medical Assistance Commission. A general acute care hospital that is issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section may, at its option, be enrolled in the Medi-Cal program as a single business address or as separate business addresses for one or more of the facilities subject to the single consolidated license. Irrespective of whether the general acute care hospital is enrolled at one or more business addresses, the department may require the hospital to file separate cost reports for each facility pursuant to Section 14170 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.(h) For purposes of the Annual Report of Hospitals required by regulations adopted by the state department pursuant to this part, the state department and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development may require reporting of bed and service utilization data separately by each facility of a general acute care hospital issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section.(i) The amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature pertaining to the issuance of a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital in the case where the separate physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall do not apply to the following facilities:(1) A facility that obtained a certificate of need after August 1, 1984, and prior to February 14, 1985, as described in this subdivision. The certificate of need shall be for the construction of a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility that is the same facility for which the hospital applies for a single consolidated license, pursuant to subdivision (a).(2) A facility for which a single consolidated license has been issued pursuant to subdivision (a), as described in this subdivision, prior to the effective date of the amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature.A facility that has been issued a single consolidated license pursuant to subdivision (a), as described in this subdivision, shall be granted renewal licenses based upon the same criteria used for the initial consolidated license.(j) If the state department issues a single consolidated license pursuant to this section, the state department may take any action authorized by this chapter, including, but not limited to, any action specified in Article 5 (commencing with Section 1294), with respect to a facility, or a service provided in a facility, that is included in the consolidated license.(k) The eligibility for participation in the Medi-Cal program (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) of a facility that is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to this section, provides outpatient services, and is located more than 15 miles from the health facility issued the consolidated license shall be subject to a determination of eligibility by the state department. This subdivision shall not apply to a facility that is located in a rural area and is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b). Regardless of whether a facility has received or not received a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, this subdivision shall not affect the ability of a licensed professional, providing services covered by the Medi-Cal program to a person eligible for Medi-Cal in a facility subject to a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, to bill the Medi-Cal program for those services provided in accordance with applicable regulations.(l) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and San Ramon Regional Medical Center.(m) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus.(n) (1) To the extent permitted by federal law, payments made to Childrens Hospital Oakland pursuant to Section 14166.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall be adjusted as follows:(A) The number of Medi-Cal payment days and net revenues calculated for the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus under the consolidated license shall not be used for eligibility purposes for the private hospital disproportionate share hospital replacement funds for Childrens Hospital Oakland.(B) The number of Medi-Cal payment days calculated for hospital beds located at John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus that are included in the consolidated license beginning in the 200708 fiscal year shall only be used for purposes of calculating disproportionate share hospital payments authorized under Section 14166.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code at Childrens Hospital Oakland to the extent that the inclusion of those days does not exceed the total Medi-Cal payment days used to calculate Childrens Hospital Oakland payments for the 200607 fiscal year disproportionate share replacement.(2) This subdivision shall become inoperative in the event that the two facilities covered under the consolidated license described in subdivision (a) are located within a 15-mile radius of each other. | |
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| 62 | - | 1250. As used in this chapter | |
| 52 | + | 1250.8. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 127170, the department, upon application of a general acute care hospital that meets all the criteria of subdivision (b), and other applicable requirements of licensure, shall issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that includes more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises or that has multiple licenses for a single health facility on the same premises. A single consolidated license shall not be issued where the separate freestanding physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or an intermediate care facility, whether or not the location of the skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility is contiguous to the general acute care hospital unless the hospital is exempt from the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 1254, or the facility is part of the physical structure licensed to provide acute care.(b) The issuance of a single consolidated license shall be based on the following criteria:(1) There is a single governing body for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee.(2) There is a single administration for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee.(3) There is a single medical staff for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee, with a single set of bylaws, rules, and regulations, which prescribe a single committee structure.(4) Except as provided otherwise in this paragraph, the physical plants maintained and operated by the licensee which that are to be covered by the single consolidated license are located not more than 15 miles apart. If an applicant provides evidence satisfactory to the department that it can comply with all requirements of licensure and provide quality care and adequate administrative and professional supervision, the director may issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates two or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart under any of the following circumstances:(A) One or more of the physical plants is located in a rural area, as defined by regulations of the director.(B) One or more of the physical plants provides only outpatient services, as defined by the department.(C) If Section 14105.986 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is implemented and the applicant meets all of the following criteria:(i) The applicant is a nonprofit corporation.(ii) The applicant is a childrens hospital listed in Section 10727 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.(iii) The applicant is affiliated with a major university medical school and located adjacent thereto.(iv) The applicant operates a regional tertiary care facility.(v) One of the physical plants is located in a county that has a consolidated and county government structure.(vi) One of the physical plants is located in a county having a population between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000.(vii) The applicant is located in a city with a population between 50,000 and 100,000.(D) The applicant is a general acute care hospital in operation as of July 1, 1983, that is operated by a nonprofit corporation, is certified by the federal Medicare program as a long-term acute care hospital, and is applying to operate a satellite facility at a distance from the main physical plant that complies with Section 413.65 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations.(c) In issuing the single consolidated license, the state department shall specify the location of each supplemental service and the location of the number and category of beds provided by the licensee. The single consolidated license shall be renewed annually.(d) To the extent required by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section127125) Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, a general acute care hospital that has been issued a single consolidated license:(1) Shall not transfer from one facility to another a special service described in Section 1255 without first obtaining a certificate of need.(2) Shall not transfer, in whole or in part, from one facility to another, a supplemental service, as defined in regulations of the director pursuant to this chapter, without first obtaining a certificate of need, unless the licensee, 30 days prior to the relocation, notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the state department of the licensees intent to relocate the supplemental service, and includes with this notice a cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which estimates that the cost of the transfer will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170.(3) Shall not transfer beds from one facility to another facility, without first obtaining a certificate of need unless, 30 days prior to the relocation, the licensee notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the state department of the licensees intent to relocate health facility beds, and includes with this notice both of the following:(A) A cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which that estimates that the cost of the relocation will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170.(B) The identification of the number, classification, and location of the health facility beds in the transferor facility and the proposed number, classification, and location of the health facility beds in the transferee facility.Except as otherwise permitted in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, or as authorized in an approved certificate of need pursuant to that chapter, health facility beds transferred pursuant to this section shall be used in the transferee facility in the same bed classification as defined in Section 1250.1, as the beds were classified in the transferor facility.Health facility beds transferred pursuant to this section shall not be transferred back to the transferor facility for two years from the date of the transfer, regardless of cost, without first obtaining a certificate of need pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107.(e) Transfers pursuant to subdivision (d) shall satisfy all applicable requirements of licensure and shall be subject to the written approval, if required, of the state department. The state department may adopt regulations that are necessary to implement this section. These regulations may include a requirement that each facility of a health facility subject to a single consolidated license have an onsite full-time or part-time administrator.(f) As used in this section, facility means a physical plant operated or maintained by a health facility subject to a single, consolidated license issued pursuant to this section.(g) For purposes of selective provider contracts negotiated under the Medi-Cal program, the treatment of a health facility with a single consolidated license issued pursuant to this section shall be subject to negotiation between the health facility and the California Medical Assistance Commission. A general acute care hospital that is issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section may, at its option, be enrolled in the Medi-Cal program as a single business address or as separate business addresses for one or more of the facilities subject to the single consolidated license. Irrespective of whether the general acute care hospital is enrolled at one or more business addresses, the department may require the hospital to file separate cost reports for each facility pursuant to Section 14170 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.(h) For purposes of the Annual Report of Hospitals required by regulations adopted by the state department pursuant to this part, the state department and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development may require reporting of bed and service utilization data separately by each facility of a general acute care hospital issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section.(i) The amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature pertaining to the issuance of a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital in the case where the separate physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall do not apply to the following facilities:(1) A facility that obtained a certificate of need after August 1, 1984, and prior to February 14, 1985, as described in this subdivision. The certificate of need shall be for the construction of a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility that is the same facility for which the hospital applies for a single consolidated license, pursuant to subdivision (a).(2) A facility for which a single consolidated license has been issued pursuant to subdivision (a), as described in this subdivision, prior to the effective date of the amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature.A facility that has been issued a single consolidated license pursuant to subdivision (a), as described in this subdivision, shall be granted renewal licenses based upon the same criteria used for the initial consolidated license.(j) If the state department issues a single consolidated license pursuant to this section, the state department may take any action authorized by this chapter, including, but not limited to, any action specified in Article 5 (commencing with Section 1294), with respect to a facility, or a service provided in a facility, that is included in the consolidated license.(k) The eligibility for participation in the Medi-Cal program (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) of a facility that is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to this section, provides outpatient services, and is located more than 15 miles from the health facility issued the consolidated license shall be subject to a determination of eligibility by the state department. This subdivision shall not apply to a facility that is located in a rural area and is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b). Regardless of whether a facility has received or not received a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, this subdivision shall not affect the ability of a licensed professional, providing services covered by the Medi-Cal program to a person eligible for Medi-Cal in a facility subject to a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, to bill the Medi-Cal program for those services provided in accordance with applicable regulations.(l) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and San Ramon Regional Medical Center.(m) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus.(n) (1) To the extent permitted by federal law, payments made to Childrens Hospital Oakland pursuant to Section 14166.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall be adjusted as follows:(A) The number of Medi-Cal payment days and net revenues calculated for the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus under the consolidated license shall not be used for eligibility purposes for the private hospital disproportionate share hospital replacement funds for Childrens Hospital Oakland.(B) The number of Medi-Cal payment days calculated for hospital beds located at John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus that are included in the consolidated license beginning in the 200708 fiscal year shall only be used for purposes of calculating disproportionate share hospital payments authorized under Section 14166.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code at Childrens Hospital Oakland to the extent that the inclusion of those days does not exceed the total Medi-Cal payment days used to calculate Childrens Hospital Oakland payments for the 200607 fiscal year disproportionate share replacement.(2) This subdivision shall become inoperative in the event that the two facilities covered under the consolidated license described in subdivision (a) are located within a 15-mile radius of each other. | |
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| 66 | - | 1250. As used in this chapter, health facility means a facility, place, or building that is organized, maintained, and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention, and treatment of human illness, physical or mental, including convalescence and rehabilitation and including care during and after pregnancy, or for any one or more of these purposes, for one or more persons, to which the persons are admitted for a 24-hour stay or longer, and includes the following types: | |
| 67 | - | ||
| 68 | - | (a) General acute care hospital means a health facility having a duly constituted governing body with overall administrative and professional responsibility and an organized medical staff that provides 24-hour inpatient care, including the following basic services: medical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services. A general acute care hospital may include more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises as provided in Section 1250.8. A general acute care hospital that exclusively provides acute medical rehabilitation center services, including at least physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy, may provide for the required surgical and anesthesia services through a contract with another acute care hospital. In addition, a general acute care hospital that, on July 1, 1983, provided required surgical and anesthesia services through a contract or agreement with another acute care hospital may continue to provide these surgical and anesthesia services through a contract or agreement with an acute care hospital. The general acute care hospital operated by the State Department of Developmental Services at Agnews Developmental Center may, until June 30, 2007, provide surgery and anesthesia services through a contract or agreement with another acute care hospital. Notwithstanding the requirements of this subdivision, a general acute care hospital operated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or the Department of Veterans Affairs may provide surgery and anesthesia services during normal weekday working hours, and not provide these services during other hours of the weekday or on weekends or holidays, if the general acute care hospital otherwise meets the requirements of this section. | |
| 69 | - | ||
| 70 | - | A general acute care hospital includes a rural general acute care hospital. However, a rural general acute care hospital shall not be required by the department to provide surgery and anesthesia services. A rural general acute care hospital shall meet either of the following conditions: | |
| 71 | - | ||
| 72 | - | (1) The hospital meets criteria for designation within peer group six or eight, as defined in the report entitled Hospital Peer Grouping for Efficiency Comparison, dated December 20, 1982. | |
| 73 | - | ||
| 74 | - | (2) The hospital meets the criteria for designation within peer group five or seven, as defined in the report entitled Hospital Peer Grouping for Efficiency Comparison, dated December 20, 1982, and has no more than 76 acute care beds and is located in a census dwelling place of 15,000 or less population according to the 1980 federal census. | |
| 75 | - | ||
| 76 | - | (b) Acute psychiatric hospital means a health facility having a duly constituted governing body with overall administrative and professional responsibility and an organized medical staff that provides 24-hour inpatient care for persons with mental health disorders or other patients referred to in Division 5 (commencing with Section 5000) or Division 6 (commencing with Section 6000) of the Welfare and Institutions Code, including the following basic services: medical, nursing, rehabilitative, pharmacy, and dietary services. | |
| 77 | - | ||
| 78 | - | (c) (1) Skilled nursing facility means a health facility that provides skilled nursing care and supportive care to patients whose primary need is for availability of skilled nursing care on an extended basis. | |
| 79 | - | ||
| 80 | - | (2) Skilled nursing facility includes a small house skilled nursing facility (SHSNF), as defined in Section 1323.5. | |
| 81 | - | ||
| 82 | - | (d) Intermediate care facility means a health facility that provides inpatient care to ambulatory or nonambulatory patients who have recurring need for skilled nursing supervision and need supportive care, but who do not require availability of continuous skilled nursing care. | |
| 83 | - | ||
| 84 | - | (e) Intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled habilitative means a facility with a capacity of 4 to 15 beds that provides 24-hour personal care, habilitation, developmental, and supportive health services to 15 or fewer persons with developmental disabilities who have intermittent recurring needs for nursing services, but have been certified by a physician and surgeon as not requiring availability of continuous skilled nursing care. | |
| 85 | - | ||
| 86 | - | (f) Special hospital means a health facility having a duly constituted governing body with overall administrative and professional responsibility and an organized medical or dental staff that provides inpatient or outpatient care in dentistry dentistry, respiratory, or maternity. | |
| 87 | - | ||
| 88 | - | (g) Intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled means a facility that provides 24-hour personal care, habilitation, developmental, and supportive health services to persons with developmental disabilities whose primary need is for developmental services and who have a recurring but intermittent need for skilled nursing services. | |
| 89 | - | ||
| 90 | - | (h) Intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled-nursing means a facility with a capacity of 4 to 15 beds that provides 24-hour personal care, developmental services, and nursing supervision for persons with developmental disabilities who have intermittent recurring needs for skilled nursing care but have been certified by a physician and surgeon as not requiring continuous skilled nursing care. The facility shall serve medically fragile persons with developmental disabilities or who demonstrate significant developmental delay that may lead to a developmental disability if not treated. | |
| 91 | - | ||
| 92 | - | (i) (1) Congregate living health facility means a residential home with a capacity, except as provided in paragraph (4), of no more than 18 beds, that provides inpatient care, including the following basic services: medical supervision, 24-hour skilled nursing and supportive care, pharmacy, dietary, social, recreational, and at least one type of service specified in paragraph (2). The primary need of congregate living health facility residents shall be for availability of skilled nursing care on a recurring, intermittent, extended, or continuous basis. This care is generally less intense than that provided in general acute care hospitals but more intense than that provided in skilled nursing facilities. | |
| 93 | - | ||
| 94 | - | (2) Congregate living health facilities shall provide one or more of the following services: | |
| 95 | - | ||
| 96 | - | (A) Services for persons who are mentally alert, persons with physical disabilities, who may be ventilator dependent. | |
| 97 | - | ||
| 98 | - | (B) Services for persons who have a diagnosis of terminal illness, a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness, or both. Terminal illness means the individual has a life expectancy of six months or less as stated in writing by his or her the individuals attending physician and surgeon. A life-threatening illness means the individual has an illness that can lead to a possibility of a termination of life within five years or less as stated in writing by his or her the individuals attending physician and surgeon. | |
| 99 | - | ||
| 100 | - | (C) Services for persons who are catastrophically and severely disabled. A person who is catastrophically and severely disabled means a person whose origin of disability was acquired through trauma or nondegenerative neurologic illness, for whom it has been determined that active rehabilitation would be beneficial and to whom these services are being provided. Services offered by a congregate living health facility to a person who is catastrophically disabled shall include, but not be limited to, speech, physical, and occupational therapy. | |
| 101 | - | ||
| 102 | - | (3) A congregate living health facility license shall specify which of the types of persons described in paragraph (2) to whom a facility is licensed to provide services. | |
| 103 | - | ||
| 104 | - | (4) (A) A facility operated by a city and county for the purposes of delivering services under this section may have a capacity of 59 beds. | |
| 105 | - | ||
| 106 | - | (B) A congregate living health facility not operated by a city and county servicing persons who are terminally ill, persons who have been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, or both, that is located in a county with a population of 500,000 or more persons, or located in a county of the 16th class pursuant to Section 28020 of the Government Code, may have not more than 25 beds for the purpose of serving persons who are terminally ill. | |
| 107 | - | ||
| 108 | - | (5) A congregate living health facility shall have a noninstitutional, homelike environment. | |
| 109 | - | ||
| 110 | - | (j) (1) Correctional treatment center means a health facility operated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, or a county, city, or city and county law enforcement agency that, as determined by the department, provides inpatient health services to that portion of the inmate population who do not require a general acute care level of basic services. This definition shall not apply to those areas of a law enforcement facility that houses inmates or wards who may be receiving outpatient services and are housed separately for reasons of improved access to health care, security, and protection. The health services provided by a correctional treatment center shall include, but are not limited to, all of the following basic services: physician and surgeon, psychiatrist, psychologist, nursing, pharmacy, and dietary. A correctional treatment center may provide the following services: laboratory, radiology, perinatal, and any other services approved by the department. | |
| 111 | - | ||
| 112 | - | (2) Outpatient surgical care with anesthesia may be provided, if the correctional treatment center meets the same requirements as a surgical clinic licensed pursuant to Section 1204, with the exception of the requirement that patients remain less than 24 hours. | |
| 113 | - | ||
| 114 | - | (3) Correctional treatment centers shall maintain written service agreements with general acute care hospitals to provide for those inmate physical health needs that cannot be met by the correctional treatment center. | |
| 115 | - | ||
| 116 | - | (4) Physician and surgeon services shall be readily available in a correctional treatment center on a 24-hour basis. | |
| 117 | - | ||
| 118 | - | (5) It is not the intent of the Legislature to have a correctional treatment center supplant the general acute care hospitals at the California Medical Facility, the California Mens Colony, and the California Institution for Men. This subdivision shall not be construed to prohibit the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from obtaining a correctional treatment center license at these sites. | |
| 119 | - | ||
| 120 | - | (k) Nursing facility means a health facility licensed pursuant to this chapter that is certified to participate as a provider of care either as a skilled nursing facility in the federal Medicare Program under Title XVIII of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1395 et seq.) or as a nursing facility in the federal Medicaid Program under Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1396 et seq.), or as both. | |
| 121 | - | ||
| 122 | - | (l) Regulations defining a correctional treatment center described in subdivision (j) that is operated by a county, city, or city and county, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, shall not become effective prior to, or, if effective, shall be inoperative until January 1, 1996, and until that time these correctional facilities are exempt from any licensing requirements. | |
| 123 | - | ||
| 124 | - | (m) Intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled-continuous nursing (ICF/DD-CN) means a homelike facility with a capacity of four to eight, inclusive, beds that provides 24-hour personal care, developmental services, and nursing supervision for persons with developmental disabilities who have continuous needs for skilled nursing care and have been certified by a physician and surgeon as warranting continuous skilled nursing care. The facility shall serve medically fragile persons who have developmental disabilities or demonstrate significant developmental delay that may lead to a developmental disability if not treated. ICF/DD-CN facilities shall be subject to licensure under this chapter upon adoption of licensing regulations in accordance with Section 1275.3. A facility providing continuous skilled nursing services to persons with developmental disabilities pursuant to Section 14132.20 or 14495.10 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall apply for licensure under this subdivision within 90 days after the regulations become effective, and may continue to operate pursuant to those sections until its licensure application is either approved or denied. | |
| 125 | - | ||
| 126 | - | (n) Hospice facility means a health facility licensed pursuant to this chapter with a capacity of no more than 24 beds that provides hospice services. Hospice services include, but are not limited to, routine care, continuous care, inpatient respite care, and inpatient hospice care as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 1339.40, and is operated by a provider of hospice services that is licensed pursuant to Section 1751 and certified as a hospice pursuant to Part 418 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations. | |
| 127 | - | ||
| 128 | - | ||
| 129 | - | ||
| 130 | - | ||
| 131 | - | ||
| 132 | - | (a)Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 127170, the department, upon application of a general acute care hospital that meets all the criteria of subdivision (b), and other applicable requirements of licensure, shall issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that includes more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises or that has multiple licenses for a single health facility on the same premises. A single consolidated license shall not be issued where the separate freestanding physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or an intermediate care facility, whether or not the location of the skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility is contiguous to the general acute care hospital unless the hospital is exempt from the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 1254, or the facility is part of the physical structure licensed to provide acute care. | |
| 133 | - | ||
| 134 | - | ||
| 56 | + | 1250.8. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 127170, the department, upon application of a general acute care hospital that meets all the criteria of subdivision (b), and other applicable requirements of licensure, shall issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that includes more than one physical plant maintained and operated on separate premises or that has multiple licenses for a single health facility on the same premises. A single consolidated license shall not be issued where the separate freestanding physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or an intermediate care facility, whether or not the location of the skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility is contiguous to the general acute care hospital unless the hospital is exempt from the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 1254, or the facility is part of the physical structure licensed to provide acute care. | |
| 135 | 57 | ||
| 136 | 58 | (b) The issuance of a single consolidated license shall be based on the following criteria: | |
| 137 | 59 | ||
| 138 | - | ||
| 139 | - | ||
| 140 | 60 | (1) There is a single governing body for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee. | |
| 141 | - | ||
| 142 | - | ||
| 143 | 61 | ||
| 144 | 62 | (2) There is a single administration for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee. | |
| 145 | 63 | ||
| 146 | - | ||
| 147 | - | ||
| 148 | 64 | (3) There is a single medical staff for all the facilities maintained and operated by the licensee, with a single set of bylaws, rules, and regulations, which prescribe a single committee structure. | |
| 149 | 65 | ||
| 150 | - | ||
| 151 | - | ||
| 152 | - | (4)Except as provided otherwise in this paragraph, the physical plants maintained and operated by the licensee that are to be covered by the single consolidated license are located not more than 15 miles apart. If an applicant provides evidence satisfactory to the department that it can comply with all requirements of licensure and provide quality care and adequate administrative and professional supervision, the director may issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates two or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart under any of the following circumstances: | |
| 153 | - | ||
| 154 | - | ||
| 66 | + | (4) Except as provided otherwise in this paragraph, the physical plants maintained and operated by the licensee which that are to be covered by the single consolidated license are located not more than 15 miles apart. If an applicant provides evidence satisfactory to the department that it can comply with all requirements of licensure and provide quality care and adequate administrative and professional supervision, the director may issue a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital that operates two or more physical plants located more than 15 miles apart under any of the following circumstances: | |
| 155 | 67 | ||
| 156 | 68 | (A) One or more of the physical plants is located in a rural area, as defined by regulations of the director. | |
| 157 | 69 | ||
| 158 | - | ||
| 159 | - | ||
| 160 | 70 | (B) One or more of the physical plants provides only outpatient services, as defined by the department. | |
| 161 | - | ||
| 162 | - | ||
| 163 | 71 | ||
| 164 | 72 | (C) If Section 14105.986 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is implemented and the applicant meets all of the following criteria: | |
| 165 | 73 | ||
| 166 | - | ||
| 167 | - | ||
| 168 | 74 | (i) The applicant is a nonprofit corporation. | |
| 169 | - | ||
| 170 | - | ||
| 171 | 75 | ||
| 172 | 76 | (ii) The applicant is a childrens hospital listed in Section 10727 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. | |
| 173 | 77 | ||
| 174 | - | ||
| 175 | - | ||
| 176 | 78 | (iii) The applicant is affiliated with a major university medical school and located adjacent thereto. | |
| 177 | - | ||
| 178 | - | ||
| 179 | 79 | ||
| 180 | 80 | (iv) The applicant operates a regional tertiary care facility. | |
| 181 | 81 | ||
| 182 | - | ||
| 183 | - | ||
| 184 | 82 | (v) One of the physical plants is located in a county that has a consolidated and county government structure. | |
| 185 | - | ||
| 186 | - | ||
| 187 | 83 | ||
| 188 | 84 | (vi) One of the physical plants is located in a county having a population between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000. | |
| 189 | 85 | ||
| 190 | - | ||
| 191 | - | ||
| 192 | 86 | (vii) The applicant is located in a city with a population between 50,000 and 100,000. | |
| 193 | - | ||
| 194 | - | ||
| 195 | 87 | ||
| 196 | 88 | (D) The applicant is a general acute care hospital in operation as of July 1, 1983, that is operated by a nonprofit corporation, is certified by the federal Medicare program as a long-term acute care hospital, and is applying to operate a satellite facility at a distance from the main physical plant that complies with Section 413.65 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations. | |
| 197 | 89 | ||
| 90 | + | (c) In issuing the single consolidated license, the state department shall specify the location of each supplemental service and the location of the number and category of beds provided by the licensee. The single consolidated license shall be renewed annually. | |
| 198 | 91 | ||
| 199 | - | ||
| 200 | - | (c)In issuing the single consolidated license, the department shall specify the location of each supplemental service and the location of the number and category of beds provided by the licensee. The single consolidated license shall be renewed annually. | |
| 201 | - | ||
| 202 | - | ||
| 203 | - | ||
| 204 | - | (d)To the extent required by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, a general acute care hospital that has been issued a single consolidated license: | |
| 205 | - | ||
| 206 | - | ||
| 92 | + | (d) To the extent required by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section127125) Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, a general acute care hospital that has been issued a single consolidated license: | |
| 207 | 93 | ||
| 208 | 94 | (1) Shall not transfer from one facility to another a special service described in Section 1255 without first obtaining a certificate of need. | |
| 209 | 95 | ||
| 96 | + | (2) Shall not transfer, in whole or in part, from one facility to another, a supplemental service, as defined in regulations of the director pursuant to this chapter, without first obtaining a certificate of need, unless the licensee, 30 days prior to the relocation, notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the state department of the licensees intent to relocate the supplemental service, and includes with this notice a cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which estimates that the cost of the transfer will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170. | |
| 210 | 97 | ||
| 98 | + | (3) Shall not transfer beds from one facility to another facility, without first obtaining a certificate of need unless, 30 days prior to the relocation, the licensee notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the state department of the licensees intent to relocate health facility beds, and includes with this notice both of the following: | |
| 211 | 99 | ||
| 212 | - | (2)Shall not transfer, in whole or in part, from one facility to another, a supplemental service, as defined in regulations of the director pursuant to this chapter, without first obtaining a certificate of need, unless the licensee, 30 days prior to the relocation, notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the department of the licensees intent to relocate the supplemental service, and includes with this notice a cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which estimates that the cost of the transfer will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170. | |
| 213 | - | ||
| 214 | - | ||
| 215 | - | ||
| 216 | - | (3)Shall not transfer beds from one facility to another facility, without first obtaining a certificate of need unless, 30 days prior to the relocation, the licensee notifies the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the applicable health systems agency, and the department of the licensees intent to relocate health facility beds, and includes with this notice both of the following: | |
| 217 | - | ||
| 218 | - | ||
| 219 | - | ||
| 220 | - | (A)A cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, that estimates that the cost of the relocation will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170. | |
| 221 | - | ||
| 222 | - | ||
| 100 | + | (A) A cost estimate, certified by a person qualified by experience or training to render the estimates, which that estimates that the cost of the relocation will not exceed the capital expenditure threshold established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development pursuant to Section 127170. | |
| 223 | 101 | ||
| 224 | 102 | (B) The identification of the number, classification, and location of the health facility beds in the transferor facility and the proposed number, classification, and location of the health facility beds in the transferee facility. | |
| 225 | 103 | ||
| 226 | - | ||
| 227 | - | ||
| 228 | 104 | Except as otherwise permitted in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107, or as authorized in an approved certificate of need pursuant to that chapter, health facility beds transferred pursuant to this section shall be used in the transferee facility in the same bed classification as defined in Section 1250.1, as the beds were classified in the transferor facility. | |
| 229 | - | ||
| 230 | - | ||
| 231 | 105 | ||
| 232 | 106 | Health facility beds transferred pursuant to this section shall not be transferred back to the transferor facility for two years from the date of the transfer, regardless of cost, without first obtaining a certificate of need pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 127125) of Part 2 of Division 107. | |
| 233 | 107 | ||
| 234 | - | ||
| 235 | - | ||
| 236 | - | (e)Transfers pursuant to subdivision (d) shall satisfy all applicable requirements of licensure and shall be subject to the written approval, if required, of the department. The department may adopt regulations necessary to implement this section. These regulations may include a requirement that each facility of a health facility subject to a single consolidated license have an onsite full-time or part-time administrator. | |
| 237 | - | ||
| 238 | - | ||
| 108 | + | (e) Transfers pursuant to subdivision (d) shall satisfy all applicable requirements of licensure and shall be subject to the written approval, if required, of the state department. The state department may adopt regulations that are necessary to implement this section. These regulations may include a requirement that each facility of a health facility subject to a single consolidated license have an onsite full-time or part-time administrator. | |
| 239 | 109 | ||
| 240 | 110 | (f) As used in this section, facility means a physical plant operated or maintained by a health facility subject to a single, consolidated license issued pursuant to this section. | |
| 241 | 111 | ||
| 242 | - | ||
| 243 | - | ||
| 244 | 112 | (g) For purposes of selective provider contracts negotiated under the Medi-Cal program, the treatment of a health facility with a single consolidated license issued pursuant to this section shall be subject to negotiation between the health facility and the California Medical Assistance Commission. A general acute care hospital that is issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section may, at its option, be enrolled in the Medi-Cal program as a single business address or as separate business addresses for one or more of the facilities subject to the single consolidated license. Irrespective of whether the general acute care hospital is enrolled at one or more business addresses, the department may require the hospital to file separate cost reports for each facility pursuant to Section 14170 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. | |
| 245 | 113 | ||
| 114 | + | (h) For purposes of the Annual Report of Hospitals required by regulations adopted by the state department pursuant to this part, the state department and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development may require reporting of bed and service utilization data separately by each facility of a general acute care hospital issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section. | |
| 246 | 115 | ||
| 247 | - | ||
| 248 | - | (h)For purposes of the Annual Report of Hospitals required by regulations adopted by the department pursuant to this part, the department and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development may require reporting of bed and service utilization data separately by each facility of a general acute care hospital issued a single consolidated license pursuant to this section. | |
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| 251 | - | ||
| 252 | - | (i)The amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature pertaining to the issuance of a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital in the case where the separate physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility do not apply to the following facilities: | |
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| 254 | - | ||
| 116 | + | (i) The amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature pertaining to the issuance of a single consolidated license to a general acute care hospital in the case where the separate physical plant is a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall do not apply to the following facilities: | |
| 255 | 117 | ||
| 256 | 118 | (1) A facility that obtained a certificate of need after August 1, 1984, and prior to February 14, 1985, as described in this subdivision. The certificate of need shall be for the construction of a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility that is the same facility for which the hospital applies for a single consolidated license, pursuant to subdivision (a). | |
| 257 | 119 | ||
| 258 | - | ||
| 259 | - | ||
| 260 | 120 | (2) A facility for which a single consolidated license has been issued pursuant to subdivision (a), as described in this subdivision, prior to the effective date of the amendments made to this section during the 198586 Regular Session of the Legislature. | |
| 261 | - | ||
| 262 | - | ||
| 263 | 121 | ||
| 264 | 122 | A facility that has been issued a single consolidated license pursuant to subdivision (a), as described in this subdivision, shall be granted renewal licenses based upon the same criteria used for the initial consolidated license. | |
| 265 | 123 | ||
| 124 | + | (j) If the state department issues a single consolidated license pursuant to this section, the state department may take any action authorized by this chapter, including, but not limited to, any action specified in Article 5 (commencing with Section 1294), with respect to a facility, or a service provided in a facility, that is included in the consolidated license. | |
| 266 | 125 | ||
| 126 | + | (k) The eligibility for participation in the Medi-Cal program (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) of a facility that is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to this section, provides outpatient services, and is located more than 15 miles from the health facility issued the consolidated license shall be subject to a determination of eligibility by the state department. This subdivision shall not apply to a facility that is located in a rural area and is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b). Regardless of whether a facility has received or not received a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, this subdivision shall not affect the ability of a licensed professional, providing services covered by the Medi-Cal program to a person eligible for Medi-Cal in a facility subject to a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, to bill the Medi-Cal program for those services provided in accordance with applicable regulations. | |
| 267 | 127 | ||
| 268 | - | ( | |
| 128 | + | (l) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and San Ramon Regional Medical Center. | |
| 269 | 129 | ||
| 270 | - | ||
| 271 | - | ||
| 272 | - | (k)The eligibility for participation in the Medi-Cal program (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) of a facility that is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to this section, provides outpatient services, and is located more than 15 miles from the health facility issued the consolidated license shall be subject to a determination of eligibility by the department. This subdivision shall not apply to a facility that is located in a rural area and is included in a consolidated license issued pursuant to subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b). Regardless of whether a facility has received or not received a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, this subdivision shall not affect the ability of a licensed professional, providing services covered by the Medi-Cal program to a person eligible for Medi-Cal in a facility subject to a determination of eligibility pursuant to this subdivision, to bill the Medi-Cal program for those services provided in accordance with applicable regulations. | |
| 273 | - | ||
| 274 | - | ||
| 275 | - | ||
| 276 | - | (l)Notwithstanding any other law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and San Ramon Regional Medical Center. | |
| 277 | - | ||
| 278 | - | ||
| 279 | - | ||
| 280 | - | (m)Notwithstanding any other law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus. | |
| 281 | - | ||
| 282 | - | ||
| 130 | + | (m) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may issue a single consolidated license for a general acute care hospital to Childrens Hospital Oakland and the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus. | |
| 283 | 131 | ||
| 284 | 132 | (n) (1) To the extent permitted by federal law, payments made to Childrens Hospital Oakland pursuant to Section 14166.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall be adjusted as follows: | |
| 285 | 133 | ||
| 286 | - | ||
| 287 | - | ||
| 288 | 134 | (A) The number of Medi-Cal payment days and net revenues calculated for the John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus under the consolidated license shall not be used for eligibility purposes for the private hospital disproportionate share hospital replacement funds for Childrens Hospital Oakland. | |
| 289 | 135 | ||
| 290 | - | ||
| 291 | - | ||
| 292 | 136 | (B) The number of Medi-Cal payment days calculated for hospital beds located at John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus that are included in the consolidated license beginning in the 200708 fiscal year shall only be used for purposes of calculating disproportionate share hospital payments authorized under Section 14166.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code at Childrens Hospital Oakland to the extent that the inclusion of those days does not exceed the total Medi-Cal payment days used to calculate Childrens Hospital Oakland payments for the 200607 fiscal year disproportionate share replacement. | |
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| 294 | - | ||
| 295 | 137 | ||
| 296 | 138 | (2) This subdivision shall become inoperative in the event that the two facilities covered under the consolidated license described in subdivision (a) are located within a 15-mile radius of each other. |