Topic: DCH Regional Medical Center

Certificate of Need laws prevent healthcare providers from adding medical equipment without first receiving permission from the state.

“We want folks here to have a choice, but without competition there is no incentive to be any better.”

Despite their inception nearly fifty years ago, ongoing questions about cost, access and the role of community healthcare remain. 

Certificate of Need is a statutory relic. Those days are gone, but CON is still with us.

Medical Monday: A (mostly) weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. At a conference last week in Idaho, we had some down time and took a shuttle […]

Georgia's Certificate of Need laws drive up healthcare costs and limits choice.

On March 20, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp issued an executive order relaxing many restrictions on healthcare providers. I

Governor Nathan Deal said the state Department of Community Health has been told to reduce its amended current fiscal year budget by 3 percent and then find 5 percent more […]