Healthcare Planning and Certificate of Need Section

State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) Meeting

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

• Agenda - Revised
• Minutes from June 1, 2022 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 - Corrected
• Edit to Policy TE-3

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

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• Agenda
• Minutes from March 2, 2022
• COVID-Related Summer Petitions, 2022
• SMFP Edit
• Acute Care Services Committee
  • Acute Care Services Committee Report
  • Chapter 5: Acute Care Services
    • Agency Report: Petition to Adjust Acute Care Bed Need Methodology (NICU Beds): Duke University Health System
      • Petition
        • Adjust Acute Care Bed Need Methodology (NICU Beds): Duke University Health System
      • Oral Remarks
        • Duke University Health System, Catharine Cummer and Michael Cotten, MD
      • Comments
        • Duke University Health System
        • Mission Health
        • Novant Health
        • UNC Health
      • Agency Report: Petition to Remove Policy AC-5: Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals
        • Petition
          • Remove Policy AC-5: Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals
        • Comments
          • Novant Health
      • HIDI/Licensure Acute Care Days Draft Data Discrepancy Report
      • Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections, NICU Data Included
      • Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections, NICU Data Excluded
      • Comparisons of Acute Care Bed Need Determinations
      • Table 5A, NICU Data Included, with Adjusted Growth Rate Multipliers
      • Table 5A, NICU Data Excluded, with Adjusted Growth Rate Multipliers
      • Table 5C: Long-Term Care Hospital Bed Inventory and Days of Care
  • Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
    • Table 6A: Operating Room Inventory and Grouping
    • Table 6B: Projected Operating Room Need for 2025
    • Table 6F: Endoscopy Room Inventory
    • Discussion of OR CON Applications
  • Chapter 7: Other Acute Care Services
    • Proposed Revisions for Policy AC-6 and Chapter 7 Narrative
    • Table 7A-1, Table 7A-2 & Figure 7A: Burn Intensive Care Services
    • Table 7B & Figure 7B: Open-Heart Surgery Procedures
    • 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
    • Agency Report: Petition to Create an ESRD Policy to Allow for the Development or Expansion of a Kidney Disease Treatment Center at a Skilled Nursing Facility
      • Petition
        • Create Policy ESRD-4: Liberty Healthcare and Rehabilitation Services
      • Letters of Support
        • Holly L. Bernardini, Medical Director, Liberty Commons
        • Katie Flanagan, Duke University Health System
        • Katrina King, Novant Health
        • Chuck Mantooth, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System
      • Oral Remarks
        • Liberty Healthcare and Rehabilitation Services, Timothy Walsh
        • Liberty Healthcare and Rehabilitation Services, David Holmes
      • Comments
        • Central Carolina Kidney Associates
        • DaVita Kidney Care
        • Duke University Health System
        • Duke Medicine, Division of Nephrology
        • Fresenius Kidney Care
        • NC Kidney Care
        • North Carolina Nephrology
    • Chapter 9: Dialysis Data by County of Patient Origin – December 2021 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
    • Table 9E: Inventory of Dialysis Home Training Facilities
• Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee
  • Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee Report
  • Chapter 10: Nursing Home Facilities
    • 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 2026
  • Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes
    • Agency Report: Petition Requesting a Revision of the Adult Care Methodology submitted by ALG Senior, LLC
      • Petition
        • Revise Adult Care Home Methodology: ALG Senior
    • 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 2026
    • 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
    • Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes (These tables are without the reported 2020 data)
      • Table 11B: County Rate Calculations for Adult Care (Assisted Living) Bed Need Determination
      • Table 11C: Adult Care Home Need Projections for 2026
      • Table 11D: Adult Care Home Bed Need Determination
  • Chapter 12: Home Health Services
    • Recommended Edits to Chapter 12 for Inclusion of Policy HH-3
    • Chapter 12: Home Health Data by County of Patient Origin – 2021 Data
    • Table 12A: Inventory of Licensed Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
    • Table 12B: Average Annual Rates of Change in Patients and Use Rates per 1,000 Population
    • Table 12C: 2024 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
    • Table 12D: 2024 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
    • Table 12E: Medicare-certified Home Health Agency or Office Need Determination
  • Chapter 13: Hospice Services
    • Proposed Technical Edits to Chapter 13 to Hospice Home Care - Step 10
    • Chapter 13: Hospice Data by County of Patient Origin – 2021 Data
    • Table 13A: Inventory of Licensed Hospice Agencies
    • Table 13B: Year 2024 Hospice Home Care Office Need Projections
    • Table 13C: Year 2026 Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Projections
    • Table 13D: Hospice Inpatient Facilities
    • Table 13E: Hospice Inpatient Facilities Occupancy Rate for FY2021
    • Table 13F: Hospice Residential Facilities
    • Table 13H: Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Determination
  • Chapter 14; Psychiatric Inpatient Services
    • Table 14A: Inventory of Psychiatric Beds, Excluding State Hospitals
  • Chapter 15: Substance Use Disorder Inpatient and Residential Services (Chemical Dependency Treatment Beds)
    • Table 15A: Inventory of Chemical Dependency (Substance Use Disorder) Beds
  • Chapter 16: Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
    • Table 16A: Inventory of ICF/IID Facilities and Beds
• Technology and Equipment Committee
  • Technology and Equipment Committee Report
  • Cardiac Catheterization
    • Agency Report: Petition Requesting a Change to the Cardiac Catheterization Methodology submitted by Johnston Health
      • Petition: Revise Cardiac Catheterization Need Methodology: UNC Health
        • Comments
          • Novant Health
    • Cardiac Catheterization Procedures by Facility and Type, 2021 (Table 17A-1)
    • Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Capacity and Volume (Table 17A-2)
    • Fixed Cardiac Catheterization, Capacity and Volume (Table 17A-3)
    • Fixed and Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Need Determinations (Table 17A-4 & 17A-5)
  • 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 Methodology Workgroup Recommendations
      • MRI Methodology Workgroup Recommendations
      • MRI Methodology Workgroup Presentation
    • Agency Report: Petition Requesting the Revision of Policy TE-3 submitted by WakeMed
      • Petition: Revise Policy TE-3: WakeMed
        • Comments
          • Alliance Healthcare Services
          • Duke University Health System
          • Mission Hospital
          • Novant Health
          • PDA
    • Agency Report: Petition Requesting the Creation of Policy TE-4 submitted by Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates
      • Petition: Create Policy TE-4: Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine
        • Comments
          • Alliance Healthcare Services
          • Mission Hospital
          • Novant Health
          • PDA
    • MRI Fixed and Mobile Procedures by MRI Service Area with Tiered Threshold and Fixed Equivalents (Table 17E-1)
    • MRI Scanner Need Determinations by Service Area (Table 17E-2)
    • Fixed MRI Scanner Need Determinations (Table 17E-3)
  • Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
    • PET Narrative/Methodology Technical Edits
    • 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)
    • PET Scanners Need Determinations (Table 17F-1)

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 SHCC Meeting

• Agenda
• Minutes from September 29, 2021 meeting
• MRI Methodology Workgroup Recommendations: Text
• MRI Methodology Workgroup Recommendations: Slides

Acute Care Services Committee (ACSC) Meeting

Tuesday, September 13, 2022 ACSC Meeting

• Agenda
• Revised Minutes from April 12, 2022
• Minutes from May 10, 2022
• Chapter 5: Acute Care Beds
  • Petition 1 - Agency Report- Petition to Remove Need Determination for Acute Care Beds in the Buncombe/Graham/Madison/Yancey County Service Area
    • Petition to Remove Need Determination for Acute Care Beds in the Buncombe/Graham/Madison/Yancey County service area
      • Comments
        • Mission Hospital
  • Petition 2 - Agency Report- Petition to Add 20 Acute Care Beds in the Cumberland County
    • Adjusted Need Determination Petition for 20 Acute Care Beds in Cumberland County
      • Oral Remarks
        • Sandy Godwin, Cape Fear Valley Health System
  • Petitions 3 & 4 - Agency Report- Petition to Remove the Need Determination for 54 Acute Care Beds in Hoke County
    • Petition to Remove Need Determination for 54 Acute Care Beds in Hoke County, Cape Fear Valley Health System
    • Petition to Remove Need Determination for 54 Acute Care Beds in Hoke County, FirstHealth of the Carolinas
  • Petition 5 - Agency Report - Petition to Add 24 Acute Care Beds in Johnston County
    • Adjusted Need Determination Petition for 24 Acute Care Beds in Johnston County
  • Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections
  • Table 5B: Acute Care Bed Need Determination
• Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
  • Petition 6 - Agency Report - Petition to Add 1 Vascular Access Operating Room in Nash County
    • Adjusted Need Determination for 1 Vascular Access Operating Room in Nash County
      • Oral Remarks
      • Dr. Karn Gupta, Carolina Vascular Care, July 20, 2022
      • Dr. Karn Gupta, Carolina Vascular Care, July 25, 2022
      • Mr. Robert Baggett
      • Dr. Nirav Jasani
    • Comments
      • Angela Mims-Thomas
      • Rickietta Buckner
      • Laura Burch
      • Daqing Guo, MD
      • Nirav Jasani, MD
      • Lorenzo B Santarina, MD
      • Freddie L. Davis
      • Louis Roberts
      • Gregory McNamee
      • Nash UNC Hospital
      • Theresa Burt
      • R. William Bynum, MD
      • Danilo Bernardo, MD
  • Petition 7 - Agency Report - Petition to Add 2 ORs in Johnston County
    • Adjusted Need Determination for 2 ORs in Johnston County
      • Oral Remarks
        • Dr. Lucas Romine
  • Petition 8 - Agency Report - Petition to Add 3 ORs in the Pitt/Greene/Hyde/Tyrrell Service Area
    • Adjusted Need Determination for 3 ORs in the Pitt/Greene/Hyde/Tyrrell Service Area
  • Evaluation Summary: Surgical Center for Dental Professionals
  • Evaluation Summary: Valleygate Dental Surgery Center of Fayetteville
  • Evaluation Summary: Valleygate Dental Surgery Center of the Triad
  • Evaluation Summary: Valleygate Dental Surgery Center of the Charlotte
  • Table 6A: Operating Room Inventory and Grouping
  • Table 6B: Projected Operating Room Need for 2025
• Chapter 7: Other Acute Care Services
  • No documents
• Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation
  • No documents
• Chapter 9: End-Stage Renal Disease Dialysis Facilities
  • Petition 9 – Agency Report – Adjusted Need Petition for an End-Stage Renal Disease Facility at a Skilled Nursing Facility as a Pilot Demonstration Project
    • Adjusted Facility Need Determination for Nursing Home Dialysis Pilot Demonstration Project in Mecklenburg Count
      • Comments
        • Charles Cooperberg, MD
        • Kevin Harned, MD
        • Fresenius Kidney Care
        • DaVita Kidney Care
        • Health Systems Management
  • Table 9A: Inventory of Dialysis Stations and Calculations of Utilization Rates - Draft - 9/13/22
  • Table 9D: Station Need Determination by Facility - Draft - 9/13/22

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 ACSC Meeting

• Agenda
• Minutes from April 12, 2022
• Chapter 5: Acute Care Hospital Beds
  • HIDI/Licensure Acute Care Days Draft Data Discrepancy Report
  • Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections, NICU Data Included
  • Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections, NICU Data Excluded
  • Comparisons of Acute Care Bed Need Determinations
  • Table 5C: Long-Term Care Hospital Bed Inventory and Days of Care
• Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
  • Table 6A: Operating Room Inventory and Grouping
  • Table 6B: Projected Operating Room Need for 2025
  • Table 6F: Endoscopy Room Inventory
  • Discussion of OR CON Applications
• 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 Procedures
  • 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: Dialysis Data by County of Patient Origin – December 2021 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
  • Table 9E: Inventory of Dialysis Home Training Facilities

Tuesday, April 12, 2022 ACSC Meeting

• Agenda
• Minutes from September 14, 2021
• Chapter 5: Acute Care Services
  • Agency Report: Petition to Adjust Acute Care Bed Need Methodology (NICU Beds): Duke University Health System
    • Petition
      • Adjust Acute Care Bed Need Methodology (NICU Beds): Duke University Health System
    • Oral Remarks
      • Duke University Health System, Catharine Cummer and Michael Cotten, MD
    • Comments
      • Duke University Health System
      • Mission Health
      • Novant Health
      • UNC Health
• Agency Report: Petition to Remove Policy AC-5: Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals
  • Petition
    • Remove Policy AC-5: Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals
  • Comments
    • Novant Health
• Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
  • No documents
• Chapter 7 – Other Acute Care Services
  • Proposed Revisions for Policy AC-6 and Chapter 7 Narrative
• Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
  • No documents
• Chapter 9: End Stage Renal Disease
  • Agency Report: Petition to Create an ESRD Policy to Allow for the Development or Expansion of a Kidney Disease Treatment Center at a Skilled Nursing Facility
    • Petition
      • Create Policy ESRD-4: Liberty Healthcare and Rehabilitation Services
    • Letters of Support
      • Dr. Holly L. Bernardini, Medical Director, Liberty Commons
      • Katie Flanagan, Duke University Health System
      • Katrina King, Novant Health
      • Chuck Mantooth, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System
    • Oral Remarks
      • Liberty Healthcare and Rehabilitation Services, Timothy Walsh
      • Liberty Healthcare and Rehabilitation Services, David Holmes
    • Comments
      • Central Carolina Kidney Associates
      • DaVita Kidney Care
      • Duke University Health System
      • Duke Medicine, Division of Nephrology
      • Fresenius Kidney Care
      • NC Kidney Care
      • North Carolina Nephrology

Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee (LTBH) Meeting

Thursday, September 15, 2022 Meeting

• Agenda
• Minutes from May 19, 2022
• Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
  • No documents
• Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes
  • 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 2025
• Chapter 12: Home Health Services
  • Petition – Agency Report – Petition to Remove the Medicare-certified Home Health Need Determination, Well Care Health, LLC 
  • Petition to Remove 12 Home Health Need Determinations
    • Comments
      • 3HC
      • Lower Cape Fear LifeCare
      • AuthoraCare Collective
      • Personal Home Care of North Carolina
      • Bayada
  • Chapter 12: Home Health Data by County of Patient Origin – 2021 Data
  • Table 12A: Inventory of Licensed Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
  • Table 12B: Average Annual Rates of Change in Patients and Use Rates per 1,000 Population
  • Table 12C: 2024 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
  • Table 12D: 2024 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
  • Table 12E: Medicare-certified Home Health Agency or Office Need Determination
• Chapter 13: Hospice Services
  • No documents
• Chapter 14: Psychiatric Inpatient Services
  • No documents 
• Chapter 15: Substance Use Disorder Inpatient and Residential Services (Chemical Dependency Treatment Beds)
  • No documents 
• Chapter 16: Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
  • No documents 

Thursday, May 19, 2022 Meeting

• Agenda
• Minutes from April 14, 2022
• Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
  • 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 2026
• Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes
  • 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 2026
  • 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
• Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes (These tables are without the reported 2020 data)
  • Table 11B: County Rate Calculations for Adult Care (Assisted Living) Bed Need Determination
  • Table 11C: Adult Care Home Need Projections for 2026
  • Table 11D: Adult Care Home Bed Need Determination
• Chapter 12: Home Health Services
  • Chapter 12: Home Health Data by County of Patient Origin – 2021 Data
  • Table 12A: Inventory of Licensed Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
  • Table 12B: Average Annual Rates of Change in Patients and Use Rates per 1,000 Population
  • Table 12C: 2024 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
  • Table 12D: 2024 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
  • Table 12E: Medicare-certified Home Health Agency or Office Need Determination
• Chapter 13: Hospice Services
  • Chapter 13: Hospice Data by County of Patient Origin – 2021 Data
  • Table 13A: Inventory of Licensed Hospice Agencies
  • Table 13B: Year 2024 Hospice Home Care Office Need Projections
  • Table 13C: Year 2026 Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Projections
  • Table 13D: Hospice Inpatient Facilities
  • Table 13E: Hospice Inpatient Facilities Occupancy Rate for FY2021
  • Table 13F: Hospice Residential Facilities
  • Table 13H: Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Determination
• Chapter 14; Psychiatric Inpatient Services
  • Table 14A: Inventory of Psychiatric Beds, Excluding State Hospitals
• Chapter 15: Substance Use Disorder Inpatient and Residential Services (Chemical Dependency Treatment Beds)
  • Table 15A: Inventory of Chemical Dependency (Substance Use Disorder) Beds
• Chapter 16: Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
  • Table 16A: Inventory of ICF/IID Facilities and Beds

Thursday, April 14, 2022 Meeting

• Agenda
• Minutes from September 9, 2021
• Chapter 10; Nursing Care Facilities
  • No documents
• Chapter 11; Adult Care Homes
  • Agency Report: Petition Requesting a Revision of the Adult Care Methodology submitted by ALG Senior, LLC
    • Petition
      • Revise Adult Care Home Methodology: ALG Senior
• Chapter 12; Home Health Services
  • Recommended Edits to Chapter 12 for Inclusion of Policy HH-3
• Chapter 13; Hospice Services
  • Proposed Technical Edits to Chapter 13 to Hospice Home Care - Step 10
• 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 the Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
  • No documents

Technology & Equipment Committee (TEC) Meeting

Wednesday September 14, 2022 TEC Meeting

• Agenda
• Minutes from May 4, 2022
• Cardiac Catheterization
  • Agency Report: Petition Requesting Adjusted Need Determination for 1 Unit of Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment in Burke County submitted by UNC Blue Ridge.
    • Adjusted Need Determination Petition for 1 Unit of Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment in Burke County
  • Agency Report: Petition Requesting Adjusted Need Determination for 1 Unit of Shared Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment in Brunswick County submitted by Novant Health Brunswick
    • Adjusted Need Determination Petition for 1 Unit of Shared Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment in Brunswick County
  • Agency Report: Petition Requesting removal of the Need Determination for 1 Unit of Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment in New Hanover County submitted by Novant Health New Hanover
    • Petition to Remove Need Determination for 1 Unit of Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment in New Hanover County
      • Comments
        • Wilmington Health
• Gamma Knife
  • No Documents
• Linear Accelerator (LINAC)
  • Agency Report: Petition Requesting Adjusted Need Determination for 1 Linear Accelerator in Service Are 20 submitted by WakeMed Health & Hospitals
    • Adjusted Need Determination Petition for 1 Linear Accelerator in Service Area 20
      • Comments
        • Duke University Health System
        • UNC Rex Hospital
        • James A. Smith, MD
        • Sisters Circle of Wake County (WakeMed)
        • Brian Klausner, MD (WakeMed)
• Lithotripsy
  • No Documents
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  • Agency Report: Petition Requesting an Adjusted Need Determination for 1 Fixed MRI Scanner in Caldwell County submitted by EmergeOrtho
    • Adjusted Need Determination Petition for 1 Fixed MRI Scanner in Caldwell County
      • Oral Remarks
        • Kyle Raygor
  • Agency Report: Two Petitions for an Adjusted Need Determination for Mobile MRI Scanners
    • Adjusted Need Determination Petition for 2 Mobile MRI Scanners, Statewide
      • Oral Remarks
        • Cameron Cremeens, Novant Health
    • Adjusted Need Determination Petition for 1 Mobile MRI Scanner in HSA III
  • MRI Fixed and Mobile Procedures by MRI Service Area with Tiered Threshold and Fixed Equivalents (Table 17E-1)
  • MRI Scanner Need Determinations by Service Area (Table 17E-2)
  • Fixed MRI Scanner Need Determinations (Table 17E-3)
• Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
  • Agency Report: Petition Requesting Adjusted Need Determination for 1 Dedicated Unit of Cardiac Mobile PET Scanner Statewide submitted by Alliance Healthcare Services.
    • Adjusted Need Determination Petition for 1 Dedicated Cardiac Mobile PET Scanner, Statewide
    • Comments
      • Robert Bober, MD

Wednesday May 4, 2022 TEC Meeting

• Agenda
• Minutes from April 6, 2022
• Cardiac Catheterization
  • Cardiac Catheterization Procedures by Facility and Type, 2021 (Table 17A-1)
  • Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Capacity and Volume (Table 17A-2)
  • Fixed Cardiac Catheterization, Capacity and Volume (Table 17A-3)
  • Fixed and Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Need Determinations (Table 17A-4 & 17A-5)
• 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)
  • MRI Scanner Need Determinations by Service Area (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)
  • PET Scanners Need Determinations (Table 17F-1)

Wednesday, April 6, 2022 TEC Meeting

• Agenda
• Minutes from September 1, 2021
• MRI Methodology Workgroup Recommendations
  • MRI Methodology Workgroup Recommendations
  • MRI Methodology Workgroup Presentation
• Cardiac Catheterization
  • Agency Report: Petition Requesting a Change to the Cardiac Catheterization Methodology submitted by Johnston Health
    • Petition: Revise Cardiac Catheterization Need Methodology: UNC Health
      • Comments
        • Novant Health
• Gamma Knife
  • No documents
• Linear Accelerator (LINAC)
  • No documents
• Lithotripsy
  • No documents
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  • Agency Report: Petition Requesting the Revision of Policy TE-3 submitted by WakeMed
    • Petition: Revise Policy TE-3: WakeMed
      • Comments
        • Alliance Healthcare Services
        • Duke University Health System
        • Mission Hospital
        • Novant Health
        • PDA
  • Agency Report: Petition Requesting the Creation of Policy TE-4 submitted by Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates
    • Petition: Create Policy TE-4: Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine
      • Comments
        • Alliance Healthcare Services
        • Mission Hospital
        • Novant Health
        • PDA
• Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
  • PET Narrative/Methodology Technical Edits

Home Health Methodology Interested Parties

The SHCC will hold an Interested Parties meeting regarding revisions to the Home Health methodology on October 11 from 10:00 a.m. until noon. The meeting will be held via WebEx.

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 HHMIP Meeting

• Agenda