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The policy debate surrounding certificate-of-need laws heated up in 2025, as critics claim the laws have long-stifled competition in healthcare, particularly in the ASC space. Here are three states ...

Some believe reforming "certificate of need" will help with access to healthcare. Parts of the state face obstacles getting enough mental and physical healthcare for their people. Some believe ...

The growth of ASCs reflects their status as a proven model for high-quality procedures and low costs, but their development faces a considerable obstacle in many markets: certificate-of-need laws.

Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and fact-checker with expertise in economics and personal finance and over twenty years of experience in the classroom. A certificate of need (CON) is a legal document ...

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In October 2023, the Maryland Health Care Commission unanimously approved final regulations making significant changes to the Procedural Regulations for Health Care Facilities and Services. This ...

State lawmakers are taking aim, once again, at a major regulatory pillar of health care competition in North Carolina: certificate-of-need rules. The Senate Health Committee met Wednesday to debate ...

Sen. Saud Anwar, surrounded by health care workers, speaks at a rally at the state Capitol in November 2023 to preserve Manchester Memorial Hospital, Rockville General Hospital and Waterbury Hospital.

For more than a year, health care workers, patients and lawmakers called on Connecticut officials to approve the sale of three hospitals to Yale New Haven Health — a deal considered crucial to the ...

Kentucky is one of 36 states with certificate of need (CON) laws that are intended to slow the growth of health care prices, promote consolidation of health care providers, and limit the duplication ...

The Village of Butte is seeking to save the local nursing home from closing, but a regulation requiring a certificate of need to change ownership is standing in the way. (Courtesy of Shanna Brooks) ...