Sec. 22224.
(1) A health facility required to be licensed as a freestanding surgical outpatient facility by rules promulgated under section 20115(2) due to the performance of abortions at that facility is not required to obtain a certificate of need in order to be granted a license as a freestanding surgical outpatient facility. However, a health facility described in this subsection is subject to this part for the services performed at that facility other than abortions.
(2) If a freestanding surgical outpatient facility is applying for a certificate of need to initiate, replace, or expand a covered clinical service consisting of surgical services, the department shall not count abortion procedures in determining if the freestanding surgical outpatient facility meets the annual minimum number of surgical procedures required in the certificate of need standards governing surgical services.
(3) As used in this section, "abortion" means that term as defined in section 17015.
History: Add. 1999, Act 206, Eff. Mar. 10, 2000 ;-- Am. 2012, Act 499, Eff. Mar. 31, 2013 Popular Name: Act 368
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