Legislature Breakthrough!

Legislature approves CON changes, Medicaid funding plan, and Hospital transparency.

Facts:

1. This 2019 Legislative Session has been a themed “rural hospital and health care” session. Rural has been the buzzword!
2. Two House Bills, among others,  passed effecting heath care in Georgia – urgent to read!!!
   1. CON Bill
   2. Provide Fee and Transparency
3. 2019 was chosen by the legislature to be a major reform to CON stemming from the House Rural Development Council
4. The Final battle is boiling down to the major urban hospitals against the Legislature and the Governor except Piedmont who pulled out of the Anti-legislature position early on in the session and submitted two letters to the public disavowing any association with positions taken by other hospital organizations.
5. Several rural hospitals separated for the pack as well and their CEO’s saw first-hand the problem with the large urban not for profit hospitals who lost major access to any communication and or support by the legislature

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