Healthcare Planning and Certificate of Need Section

State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) Meeting

Wednesday, October 7, 2020 SHCC Meeting

• Agenda
• Minutes from August 26, 2020 meeting
• Acute Care Services Committee Documents
• Acute Care Services Committee Recommendations
• Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee Documents
• Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee Recommendations
• Technology and Equipment Committee Documents
• Technology and Equipment Committee Recommendations

Wednesday, August 26, 2020 SHCC Meeting

• Agenda
• Minutes from June 10, 2020 meeting
• Acute Care Services Committee Report
• Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee Report
• Technology and Equipment Committee Report

Wednesday, June 10, 2020 SHCC Meeting

Download a ZIP file with all of the documents for the meeting on May 29, 2019. (ZIP, 37.9 MB)

• WebEx Instructions for members of public (PDF, 106 KB)
• Agenda (PDF, 15 KB)
• Minutes from March 4, 2020 (PDF, 43 KB)
• Acute Care Services Committee
  • Acute Care Services Committee Report (PDF, 133 KB)
  • Chapter 5: Acute Care Hospital Beds
    • Proposed Policy AC-3 revision
    • IBM Health/Licensure Acute Care Days Draft Data Discrepancy Report
    • Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections
    • Table 5B: Acute Care Bed Need Determination
    • Table 5C: Long-Term Care Hospital Bed Inventory and Days of Care
    • Proposed Technical Edits to Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
    • Agency Report: Petition for Clarification Regarding Dental Single Specialty Ambulatory Surgical Facility Demonstration Project: Valleygate Dental Surgery
    • Petition
      • Petition for Clarification Regarding Dental Single Specialty Ambulatory Surgical Facility Demonstration Project: Valleygate Dental Surgery
      • Oral Remarks
        • Dr. Virginia Jones
      • Comments
        • Valleygate Dental Surgery Centers
        • Cape Fear Valley Health
      • Letters of support
        • Valleygate Dental Surgery Centers
    • Table 6A: Operating Room Inventory and Grouping
    • Table 6B: Projected Operating Room Need for 2023
    • Table 6C: Projected Operating Room Need Determinations
    • Table 6E: Endoscopy Room Inventory
  • Chapter 7: Other Acute Care Services
    • Table 7A-1, Table 7A-2 & Figure 7A: Burn Intensive Care Services
    • Table 7B & Figure 7B: Open-Heart Surgery Proceduresm Need for 2023
    • Table 7C-1 & Figure 7C-1: Bone Marrow Transplantation Services
    • Table 7C-3 & Figure 7C-2: Solid Organ Transplantation Services
  • Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
    • Table 8A: Inventory and Utilization of Inpatient Rehabilitation Beds
  • Chapter 9: End-Stage Renal Disease Dialysis Facilities
    • Language clarification for Proposed 2021 SMFP
    • Proposed Policy ESRD-3
    • Agency Report: Petition to Establish a Need Determination Methodology for Home Hemodialysis Training Stations in ESRD Treatment Facilities
      • Petition for Home Hemodialysis Methodology: Wake Forest Baptist Health
        • Exhibit A - Workbook
        • Exhibit A - Example
        • Comments
          • DaVita
          • Fresenius (WFBH)
    • Agency Report: Petition to Adopt a Policy for the Addition of Dialysis Stations to Existing or Approved Dialysis Facilities, in lieu of a Formal Methodology with Need Determinations Published in the SMFP
      • Petition for Changes in ESRD Policies and Methodologies: DaVita
        • Attachment - Data
        • Oral Remarks at Public Hearing
          • Luke Santillo
        • Comments
          • Fresenius (DaVita)
    • Agency Report: Petition to Amend the ESRD CON Application Review Schedule as Published in the 2020 SMFP
      • Petition to Change the CON Application Review Schedule: Fresenius
    • Proposal to Post Certain Patient Origin Reports Online
    • Chapter 9: Proposed language clarification for 2021 Proposed SMFP, Revised 5-19-2020
    • Chapter 9: Dialysis Data by County of Patient Origin – December 2019 Data
    • Table 9A: Inventory of Dialysis Stations and Calculation of Utilization Rates
    • Table 9B: ESRD Dialysis Station Need Determinations by Planning Area
    • Table 9D: Need Determination for New Dialysis Stations by Facility
• Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee
  • Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee Report
  • Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
    • Proposed Technical Edits to Chapter 10
    • Narrative Edits to Chapter 10
    • Table 10A: Inventory of Nursing Home and Hospital Nursing Care Beds
    • Table 10B: County Rate Calculations for Nursing Home Bed Need Determination
    • Table 10C: Nursing Care Bed Need Projections for 2024
  • Chapter 11: Adult Care Home
    • Narrative Edits to Chapter 11
    • Table 11A: Inventory of Adult Care Home (Assisted Living) Beds
    • Table 11B: County Rate Calculations for Adult Care (Assisted Living) Bed Need Determination
    • Table 11C: Adult Care Home Need Projections for 2024
    • Table 11D: Adult Care Home Bed Need Determination
    • Table 11E: Inventory of Adult Care Home Beds in Continuing Care Retirement Homes
    • Table 11F: Inventory of Nursing Homes with Six or Fewer Adult Care Home Beds
  • Chapter 12: Home Health Services
    • Chapter 12: Home Health Data by County of Patient Origin – 2019 Data
    • Table 12A: Average Annual Rates of Change in Patients and Use Rates per 1,000 Population
    • Table 12B: 2022 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
    • Table 12C: 2022 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
    • Table 12D: Medicare-certified Home Health Agency or Office Need Determination
  • Chapter 13: Hospice Services
    • Chapter 13: Hospice Data by County of Patient Origin – 2019 Data
    • Table 13A: Year 2022 Hospice Home Care Office Need Projections
    • Table 13B: Year 2024 Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Projections
    • Table 13C: Hospice Inpatient Facilities
    • Table 13D: Hospice Inpatient Facilities Occupancy Rate for FY 2019
    • Table 13E: Hospice Residential Facilities
    • Table 13F: Inventory of Hospice Residential Beds
  • Chapter 14: Psychiatric Inpatient Services
    • Table 14A: Inventory of Psychiatric Beds, Excluding State Hospitals, By Local Management Entity
    • Table 14B: 2023 Projections of Psychiatric Bed Need by Local Management Entity - Management Care Organization (LME-MCO) – Projection of Child/Adolescent Bed Need for 2023
    • Table 14C: 2023 Projections of Psychiatric Bed Need by Local Management Entity - Management Care Organization (LME-MCO) – Projection of Adult Bed Need for 2023
    • Table 14D: Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Bed Need Determination
    • Table 14E: Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Bed Need Determination
  • Chapter 15: Substance Use Disorder Inpatient and Residential Services (Chemical Dependency Treatment Beds
    • Table 15A: Inventory of Chemical Dependency (Substance Use Disorder) Beds, Excluding State Facilities By Local Management Entity-Managed Care Organization (LME-MCO) & Mental Health Planning Region
    • Table 15B: 2023 Projection of Chemical Dependency (Substance Use Disorder) Treatment Bed Need By Mental Health Planning Region
    • Table 15C: Child/Adolescent Chemical Dependency (Substance Use Disorder) Treatment Bed Need Determinations
  • Chapter 16: Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
    • Proposed Policy ICF/IID-5
    • Table 16A: Inventory of ICF/IID Facilities and Beds
  • Posting of Patient Origin Reports Online
  • Review of Psychiatric and Substance use Disorder Bed Need Methodologies
    • Comments
      • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – NAMI NC
      • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – NAMI Wake County
      • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – Atrium
      • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – Four LME-MCOs
      • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – PDA
      • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – NCHA
      • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – Duke
      • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – WakeMed
      • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – Mission
      • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – UHS
• Technology & Equipment Committee
  • Technology & Equipment Committee Report
  • Cardiac Catheterization
    • Cardiac Catheterization Procedures by Facility and Type, 2019 (Table 17A-1)
    • Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Capacity and Volume (Table 17A-2)
    • Fixed Cardiac Catheterization, Capacity and Volume (Table 17A-3)
    • Cardiac Catheterization Equipment Need Determination (Table 17A-4)
  • Gamma Knife
    • No documents
  • Linear Accelerator (LINAC)
    • Hospital and Free-Standing Linear Accelerators and Radiation Oncology Procedures (Table 17C-1)
    • Stereotactic Radiosurgery Procedures (Table 17C-2)
    • Linear Accelerator Service Areas (Table 17C-4)
    • Linear Accelerator Service Areas and Calculations (Table 17C-5)
    • Linear Accelerator Need Determinations (Table 17C-6)
  • Lithotripsy
    • Mobile and Fixed Lithotripsy Providers and Locations Served (Table 17D-1) and Mobile and Fixed Lithotripsy (Table 17D-2)
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

    Agency Report: Petition for Amendment or New Policy for the Submission of Vender Owned Magnetic Resonance Imaging Equipment (MRI) Scanner in the 2021 State Medical Facilities Plan

    • Petition for New Technology and Equipment Policy: Carolina NeuroSurgery & Spine Associates
      • Comments
        • Alliance (CNSA)
        • Novant (CNSA)
    • Petition for Modification, Fixed MRI Equipment: Raleigh Radiology
      • Oral Remarks at Public Hearing
        • Dr. Satish Mathan
      • Comments
        • Alliance (Raleigh Radiology)
        • Novant (Raleigh Radiology)
      • Letters of Support
        • Raleigh Radiology Letters of Support
    • Policy TE-4: Substitution of Vender Owned MRI Scanners
    • MRI Fixed and Mobile Procedures by MRI Service Area with Tiered Threshold and Fixed Equivalents (Table 17E-1)
    • Existing and Approved Specialized MRI Scanners, Excluded from Inventory (Table 17E-2)
    • Fixed MRI Scanner Need Determinations (Table 17E-3)
  • Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
    • Utilization of Existing Dedicated Fixed PET Scanners (Table 17F-1)
    • PET Scanner Provider of Mobile Dedicated Scanners (Table 17F-2) and PET Scanner Sites Utilization of Existing Mobile Dedicated Scanners (Table F-3)
    • Fixed Dedicated PET Scanners Need Determinations (Table 17F-4)

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 SHCC Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on March 4.

• Agenda (PDF, 17 KB)
• Minutes from October 2, 2019 (PDF, 48 K
• Chair's Presentation (PDF, 239 KB)
• Policies GEN-1 and GEN-2 (PDF, 19 KB)

Acute Care Services (ACS) Committee

Tuesday, September 15, 2020 ACS Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on September 15, 2020.

• Agenda
• Minutes from May 19, 2020
• COVID-19 Acute Care Bed Expansions
• COVID-19 Dialysis Station Expansions
• Chapter 5: Acute Care Beds
  • Petition 1 – Agency Report- Petition for Adjusted Need Determination for Acute Care Beds in Wake County
    • Petition for Adjusted Need Determination for Acute Care Beds in Wake County: Duke University Health System
      • Comments
        • UNC Rex
        • WakeMed
  • Petition 2 Agency Report Petition to Remove Need Determination in Cumberland County
    • Petition to Remove Bed Need Determination in Cumberland County: Cape Fear Valley Health
  • Update to IBM Watson Health/License Renewal Application Data Discrepancy Report
  • Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections
  • Table 5B: Acute Care Bed Need Determination
• Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
  • Evaluation Summary: Surgical Center for Dental Professionals
  • Evaluation Summary: Valleygate Dental Surgery Center of Fayetteville
  • Evaluation Summary: Valleygate Dental Surgery Center of the Triad
  • Table 6A: Operating Room Inventory and Grouping
  • Table 6B: Projected Operating Room Need for 2023
  • Table 6C: Operating Room Need Determination
• Chapter 7: Other Acute Care Services
  • Petition 3 – Agency Report – Petition for Burn Intensive Care Unit at Mission Hospital
    • Petition for Burn Intensive Care Unit at Mission Hospital: HCA
    • Comments
    • UNC Hospitals
    • UNC Hospitals – Dr. Booker King
    • Wake Forest Baptist Health
• Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
  • No documents
• Chapter 9: End-Stage Renal Disease Dialysis Facilities
  • Petition 4 – Agency Report – Petition to Replace the End-Stage Renal Disease Dialysis Methodology
    • Petition for Adjusted Need Determination for a Dialysis Facility in Franklin County: Solomon Dunston and Marissa Dunston
      • Comments
      • Fresenius
  • Table 9A: Inventory of Dialysis Stations and Calculations of Utilization Rates – Draft – 9/15/20
  • Table 9B: ESRD Dialysis Station Need Determinations by Planning Area – Draft – 9/15/20 
  • Table 9D: Station Need Determination by Facility – Draft – 9/15/20
  • Table 9E: Inventory of Dialysis Home Training Facilities – Draft – 9/15/20

Tuesday, May 19, 2020 ACS Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on May 19, 2020.

• Instructions for Attending the Meeting for Members of the Public
  • WebEx Instructions
• Agenda
• Minutes from April 7, 2020
• Chapter 5: Acute Care Hospital Beds
  • IBM Health/Licensure Acute Care Days Draft Data Discrepancy Report
  • Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections
  • Table 5B: Acute Care Bed Need Determination
  • Table 5C: Long-Term Care Hospital Bed Inventory and Days of Care
  • Proposed Technical Edits to Chapter 5
• Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
  • Table 6A: Operating Room Inventory and Grouping
  • Table 6B: Projected Operating Room Need for 2023
  • Table 6C: Projected Operating Room Need Determinations
  • Table 6E: Endoscopy Room Inventory
• Chapter 7: Other Acute Care Services
  • Table 7A-1, Table 7A-2 & Figure 7A: Burn Intensive Care Services
  • Table 7B & Figure 7B: Open-Heart Surgery Proceduresm Need for 2023
  • Table 7C-1 & Figure 7C-1: Bone Marrow Transplantation Services
  • Table 7C-3 & Figure 7C-2: Solid Organ Transplantation Services
• Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
  • Table 8A: Inventory and Utilization of Inpatient Rehabilitation Beds
• Chapter 9: End-Stage Renal Disease Dialysis Facilities
  • Chapter 9: Proposed language clarification for 2021 Proposed SMFP, Revised 5-19-2020
  • Chapter 9: Dialysis Data by County of Patient Origin – December 2019 Data
  • Table 9A: Inventory of Dialysis Stations and Calculation of Utilization Rates
  • Table 9B: ESRD Dialysis Station Need Determinations by Planning Area
  • Table 9D: Need Determination for New Dialysis Stations by Facility

Tuesday, April 7, 2020 ACS Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on April 07, 2020.

• Agenda
• Minutes from September 17, 2019
• Chapter 5: Acute Care Services
  • Proposed Policy AC-3 revision
• Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
  • Agency Report: Petition for Clarification Regarding Dental Single Specialty Ambulatory Surgical Facility Demonstration Project: Valleygate Dental Surgery
  • Petition
    • Petition for Clarification Regarding Dental Single Specialty Ambulatory Surgical Facility Demonstration Project: Valleygate Dental Surgery
    • Oral Remarks
      Dr. Virginia Jones
    • Comments
      • Valleygate Dental Surgery Centers
      • Cape Fear Valley Health
    • Letters of support
      • Valleygate Dental Surgery Centers
• Chapter 7: Other Acute Care Services
  • No documents
• Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
  • No documents
• Chapter 9: End Stage Renal Disease
  • Language clarification for Proposed 2021 SMFP
  • Proposed Policy ESRD-3
• Agency Report: Petition to Establish a Need Determination Methodology for Home Hemodialysis Training Stations in ESRD Treatment Facilities
  • Petition for Home Hemodialysis Methodology: Wake Forest Baptist Health
    • Exhibit A - Workbook
    • Exhibit A - Example
    • Comments
      • DaVita
      • Fresenius (WFBH)
• Agency Report: Petition to Adopt a Policy for the Addition of Dialysis Stations to Existing or Approved Dialysis Facilities, in lieu of a Formal Methodology with Need Determinations Published in the SMFP
  • Petition for Changes in ESRD Policies and Methodologies: DaVita
    • Attachment - Data
    • Oral Remarks at Public Hearing
      • Luke Santillo
    • Comments
      • Fresenius (DaVita)
• Agency Report: Petition to Amend the ESRD CON Application Review Schedule as Published in the 2020 SMFP
  • Petition to Change the CON Application Review Schedule: Fresenius
• Proposal to Post Certain Patient Origin Reports Online

Long Term and Behavioral Health (LTBH) Committee

Thursday, September 17, 2020 LTBH Meeting

• Agenda
• Minutes from May 14, 2020
• Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
  • No documents to post
• Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes
  • No documents to post
• Chapter 12: Home Health Services
  • Petition 1 – Agency Report-Petition for Adjusted Need Determination for a Medicare-certified Home Health Agency or Office in Mecklenburg County
    • Petition for Adjusted Need Determination for a Home Health Agency in Mecklenburg County: PruittHealth
  • Table 12A: Inventory of Home Health Medicare-certified Agencies and Offices
• Chapter 13: Hospice Services
  • Petition 2 – Agency Report – Petition for Adjusted Need Determination for six hospice inpatient beds in Watauga County
    • Petition for Adjusted Need Determination for a Hospice Inpatient Facility in Watauga County: Caldwell Hospice & Palliative Care
      • Comments
        • Three letters of support
        • UNC Caldwell
        • Anna Trivette
  • Table 13A: Inventory of Hospice Home Care Agencies
• Chapter 14: Psychiatric Inpatient Services
  • Table 14A: Inventory of Psychiatric Beds, Excluding State Hospitals, By Local Management Entity
  • Table 14B: 2023 Projections of Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Bed Need by Local Management Entity-Management Care Organization (LME-MCO)
  • Table 14C: 2023 Projections of Adult Psychiatric Bed Need by Local Management EntityManagement Care Organization (LME-MCO)
  • Table 14D: Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Bed Need Determination
  • Table 14E: Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Bed Need Determination
• Chapter 15: Substance Use Disorder Inpatient and Residential Services (Chemical Dependency Treatment Beds)
  • Table 15A: Inventory of Chemical Dependency (Substance Use Disorder) Beds, Excluding State Facilities by Local Management Entity-Managed Care Organization (LME-MCO) and Mental Health Planning Region
  • Table 15B: 2023 Projection of Chemical Dependency (Substance Use Disorder) Treatment Bed Need by Mental Health Planning Region
  • Table 15C: Child/Adolescent Chemical Dependency (Substance Use Disorder) Treatment Bed Need Determinations
• Chapter 16: Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
  • No documents to post

The following are the handouts for the meeting on May 14, 2020.

• Instructions for Attending the Meeting for Members of the Public
  • WebEx Instructions
• Agenda
• Minutes from April 9, 2020
• Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
  • Narrative Edits to Chapter 10
  • Table 10A: Inventory of Nursing Home and Hospital Nursing Care Beds
  • Table 10B: County Rate Calculations for Nursing Home Bed Need Determination
  • Table 10C: Nursing Care Bed Need Projections for 2024
• Chapter 11: Adult Care Home
  • Narrative Edits to Chapter 11
  • Table 11A: Inventory of Adult Care Home (Assisted Living) Beds
  • Table 11B: County Rate Calculations for Adult Care (Assisted Living) Bed Need Determination
  • Table 11C: Adult Care Home Need Projections for 2024
  • Table 11D: Adult Care Home Bed Need Determination
  • Table 11E: Inventory of Adult Care Home Beds in Continuing Care Retirement Homes
  • Table 11F: Inventory of Nursing Homes with Six or Fewer Adult Care Home Beds
• Chapter 12: Home Health Services
  • Chapter 12: Home Health Data by County of Patient Origin – 2019 Data
  • Table 12A: Average Annual Rates of Change in Patients and Use Rates per 1,000 Population
  • Table 12B: 2022 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
  • Table 12C: 2022 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
  • Table 12D: Medicare-certified Home Health Agency or Office Need Determination
• Chapter 13: Hospice Services
  • Chapter 13: Hospice Data by County of Patient Origin – 2019 Data
  • Table 13A: Year 2022 Hospice Home Care Office Need Projections
  • Table 13B: Year 2024 Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Projections
  • Table 13C: Hospice Inpatient Facilities
  • Table 13D: Hospice Inpatient Facilities Occupancy Rate for FY 2019
  • Table 13E: Hospice Residential Facilities
  • Table 13F: Inventory of Hospice Residential Beds
• Chapter 14: Psychiatric Inpatient Services
  • Table 14A: Inventory of Psychiatric Beds, Excluding State Hospitals, By Local Management Entity
  • Table 14B: 2023 Projections of Psychiatric Bed Need by Local Management Entity - Management Care Organization (LME-MCO) – Projection of Child/Adolescent Bed Need for 2023
  • Table 14C: 2023 Projections of Psychiatric Bed Need by Local Management Entity - Management Care Organization (LME-MCO) – Projection of Adult Bed Need for 2023
  • Table 14D: Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Bed Need Determination
  • Table 14E: Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Bed Need Determination
• Chapter 15: Substance Use Disorder Inpatient and Residential Services (Chemical Dependency Treatment Beds
  • Table 15A: Inventory of Chemical Dependency (Substance Use Disorder) Beds, Excluding State Facilities By Local Management Entity-Managed Care Organization (LME-MCO) & Mental Health Planning Region
  • Table 15B: 2023 Projection of Chemical Dependency (Substance Use Disorder) Treatment Bed Need By Mental Health Planning Region
  • Table 15C: Child/Adolescent Chemical Dependency (Substance Use Disorder) Treatment Bed Need Determinations
• Chapter 16: Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
  • Table 16A: Inventory of ICF/IID Facilities and Beds
• Review of Psychiatric and Substance use Disorder Bed Need Methodologies
  • Comments
    • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – NAMI NC
    • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – NAMI Wake County
    • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – Atrium
    • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – Four LME-MCOs
    • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – PDA
    • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – NCHA
    • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – Duke
    • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – WakeMed
    • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – Mission
    • Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comments – UHS

Thursday, April 9, 2020 LTBH Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on April 9, 2020.

• Agenda
• Minutes from September 5, 2019
• Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
  • Proposed Technical Edits to Chapter 10
• Chapter 11: Adult Care Home
  • No documents
• Chapter 12: Home Health Services
  • No documents
• Chapter 13: Hospice Services
  • No documents
• Chapter 14: Psychiatric Inpatient Services
  • No documents
• Chapter 15: Substance Abuse Inpatient and Residential Services (Chemical Dependency Treatment Beds)
  • No documents
• Chapter 16: Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
  • Proposed Policy ICF/IID-5
• No Chapter or Sub-title
  • Posting of Patient Origin Reports Online

Technology & Equipment Committee (TEC) Meeting

Wednesday September 9, 2020

• Agenda
• Minutes from May 20, 2020
• Cardiac Catheterization
  • Cardiac Catheterization Procedures by Facility and Type, 2019 (Table 17A-1)
  • Fixed Cardiac Catheterization, Capacity and Volume (Table 17A-3)
• Gamma Knife
  • No documents
• Linear Accelerator (LINAC)
  • Hospital and Free-Standing Linear Accelerators and Radiation Oncology Procedures (Table 17C-1)
  • Linear Accelerator Service Areas and Calculations (Table 17C-5)
  • Agency Report: Petition for Adjusted Need Determination for a Liner Accelerator in Service Area 7: Atrium Health
    • Petition for Adjusted Need Determination for a Linear Accelerator in Service Area 7: Atrium Health
      • Comments
        • Novant Health
        • UNC Health
• Lithotripsy
  • No documents
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  • Agency Report: Petition to Remove MRI Need Determination in Stanley County: Atrium Health
    • Petition to Remove MRI Need Determination in Stanly County: Atrium Health
  • Agency Report: Petition to Remove MRI Need Determination in Pasquotank/Camden/Currituck/Perquimans Service Area: Sentara Albemarle Medical Center
    • Petition to Remove MRI Need Determination in Pasquotank/Camden/ Currituck/Perquimans Service Area: Sentara Albemarle Medical Center
  • Agency Report: Petition to Remove Policy TE-4 from the 2021 SMFP
    • Petition to Remove Policy TE-4 from 2021 SMFP: Novant Health
    • Petition to Remove Policy TE-4 from 2021 SMFP: Alliance Healthcare Services
      • Oral Remarks at Public Hearing(s) regarding Policy TE-4
        • Anderson Shackelford – July 8
        • Rodney Skelding – July 8
        • Joy Heath – July 10
        • Anderson Shackelford – July 10
        • Lauren Fussell – July 10
        • David French – July 10
        • Joy Heath – July 14
        • Anderson Shackelford – July 14
        • Tina Hinshaw – July 14
        • David French – July 14
        • Nancy Lane – July 14
        • Joanne Watson – July 14
        • Joy Heath – July 17
        • Anderson Shackelford – July 17
        • David French – July 17
        • Joy Heath – July 21
        • Anderson Shackelford – July 21
        • Cale Arnold – July 21
        • David French – July 21
        • Nancy Lane – July 21
        • Joanne Watson – July 21
        • Joy Heath – July 29
        • Anderson Shackelford – July 29
        • Cale Arnold – July 29
        • David French – July 29
        • Joanne Watson – July 29
        • Nancy Lane – July 29
      • Comments
        • Raleigh Radiology
        • Alliance Healthcare Services
        • Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates
        • Joy Heath and Anderson Shackelford – Policy TE-4
        • Raleigh Radiology=Radiology – Policy TE-4
        • Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates – Policy TE-4
• Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
  • Agency Report: Petition for Adjusted Need Determination for an Additional Mobile PET Scanner in the 2021 SMFP
    • Petition for Adjusted Need Determination for an Additional Mobile PET Scanner: DMS Health Technologies
      • Comments
        • Insight Imaging
        • Alliance Healthcare Services

Wednesday, May 20, 2020 TEC Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on May 20, 2020.

• Instructions for Attending the Meeting for Members of the Public
• Agenda
• Minutes from April 15, 2020
• Cardiac Catheterization
  • Cardiac Catheterization Procedures by Facility and Type, 2019 (Table 17A-1)
  • Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Capacity and Volume (Table 17A-2)
  • Fixed Cardiac Catheterization, Capacity and Volume (Table 17A-3)
  • Cardiac Catheterization Equipment Need Determination (Table 17A-4)
• Gamma Knife
  • No documents
• Linear Accelerator (LINAC)
  • Hospital and Free-Standing Linear Accelerators and Radiation Oncology Procedures (Table 17C-1)
  • Stereotactic Radiosurgery Procedures (Table 17C-2)
  • Linear Accelerator Service Areas (Table 17C-4)
  • Linear Accelerator Service Areas and Calculations (Table 17C-5)
  • Linear Accelerator Need Determinations (Table 17C-6)
• Lithotripsy
  • Mobile and Fixed Lithotripsy Providers and Locations Served (Table 17D-1) and Mobile and Fixed Lithotripsy (Table 17D-2)
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  • MRI Fixed and Mobile Procedures by MRI Service Area with Tiered Threshold and Fixed Equivalents (Table 17E-1)
  • Existing and Approved Specialized MRI Scanners, Excluded from Inventory (Table 17E-2)
  • Fixed MRI Scanner Need Determinations (Table 17E-3)
• Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
  • Utilization of Existing Dedicated Fixed PET Scanners (Table 17F-1)
  • PET Scanner Provider of Mobile Dedicated Scanners (Table 17F-2) and PET Scanner Sites Utilization of Existing Mobile Dedicated Scanners (Table F-3)
  • Fixed Dedicated PET Scanners Need Determinations (Table 17F-4)

Wednesday, April 15, 2020 TEC Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on April 15, 2020.

• Agenda
• Minutes from September 11, 2019
• Cardiac Catheterization Equipment
  • Proposed Technical Edits to Cardiac Catheterization Narrative
• Gamma Knife
  • No documents
• Linear Accelerators
  • No documents
• Lithotripsy
  • No documents
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

  Agency Report: Petition for Amendment or New Policy for the Submission of Vender Owned Magnetic Resonance Imaging Equipment (MRI) Scanner in the 2021 State Medical Facilities Plan

  • Petition for New Technology and Equipment Policy: Carolina NeuroSurgery & Spine Associates
    • Comments
      • Alliance (CNSA)
      • Novant (CNSA)
  • Petition for Modification, Fixed MRI Equipment: Raleigh Radiology
    • Oral Remarks at Public Hearing
      • Dr. Satish Mathan
    • Comments
      • Alliance (Raleigh Radiology)
      • Novant (Raleigh Radiology)
    • Letters of Support
      • Raleigh Radiology Letters of Support
  • Policy TE-4: Substitution of Vender Owned MRI Scanners
• Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
  • No documents