California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 1 - Health Planning

• Section 127125.
  As used in this chapter, “office” means the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development and “office director” means the director of the office.Any reference...
• Section 127130.
  For the purposes of this chapter:(a)  “Health maintenance organization” or “HMO” means a public or private organization, organized under the laws of this state, that:...
• Section 127135.
  Any reference in any code to the Health Planning Council, the Health Review and Program Council, or the State Board of Public Health, with respect...
• Section 127140.
  (a)  In order to effectively implement this chapter, the Legislature finds that it is indispensable that providers of health care be free to engage in...
• Section 127145.
  (a)  The Advisory Health Council, with the recommendation of the department, shall approve the statewide health facility and services plan adopted pursuant to subdivision (b)...
• Section 127150.
  (a)  The office director shall adopt regulations for the implementation of this chapter. (b)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, the...
• Section 127155.
  The Advisory Health Council shall evaluate and shall designate annually no more than one area health planning agency for any area of the state designated...
• Section 127160.
  The office shall adopt regulations setting forth statewide policies for area health planning agencies in the performance of their responsibilities under Section 127155.In adopting the...
• Section 127165.
  (a)  The basis for decisions by the office on applications for certificates of need filed pursuant to this chapter shall be: (1)  The Statewide Health...
• Section 127170.
  Except as otherwise exempted by any other provision of law, projects requiring a certificate of need issued by the office are the following:(a)  Construction of...
• Section 127175.
  (a)  The office shall exempt from Sections 127210 to 127275, inclusive, and shall issue a certificate of exemption for those projects that were not previously...
• Section 127180.
  (a)  In addition to the exemption required by Section 127175, the office director shall exempt Sections 127210 to 127275, inclusive, and shall issue a certificate...
• Section 127185.
  (a) In addition to the exemption required by Section 127175, the office director shall exempt from Sections 127210 to 127275, inclusive, and shall issue a certificate...
• Section 127190.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the office shall exempt from Sections 127210 to 127275, inclusive, and shall issue a certificate of need for,...
• Section 127195.
  Projects for freestanding outpatient surgery units that only perform cataract surgery under the Medi-Cal program or a program that provides over 25 percent of its...
• Section 127200.
  Taking into consideration the basis for decision set forth in Section 127165:(a)  The office may, in individual cases, grant certificates of need for projects when...
• Section 127205.
  (a)  It is the intent of the Legislature that projects for a general acute care hospital designated as a sole community provider and licensed for...
• Section 127210.
  Applicants for a certificate of need for a project specified in Section 127170 shall submit an application to the department on the official forms provided...
• Section 127215.
  Each application for a certificate of need shall contain all of the information required by the office and, except as otherwise provided in this chapter,...
• Section 127220.
  (a)  The office, within 15 days of its receipt of an application for a certificate of need submitted pursuant to Section 127210, shall make a...
• Section 127225.
  At least 20 calendar days prior to the filing of an application for a certificate of need under Section 127170, the applicant shall notify the...
• Section 127230.
  The office shall transmit a copy of each application for a certificate of need determined by it to be complete, or otherwise deemed complete pursuant...
• Section 127235.
  (a)  Within 45 calendar days of the receipt of the complete application, or an application otherwise deemed complete pursuant to Section 127220, the office shall...
• Section 127240.
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), (c), (d), (e), or (f) of Section 127235, if the office orders a hearing on an application, the applicant may request an...
• Section 127245.
  (a)  The undertaking of a project that requires a certificate of need, as provided in this chapter, without having first obtained a certificate of need...
• Section 127250.
  Any decision issued pursuant to Section 127235 shall take effect 30 calendar days following its issuance unless within that time the applicant files a petition...
• Section 127255.
  Grounds for appeal pursuant to Section 127250 shall be limited to the following:(a)  The office or the hearing officer violated the review procedures prescribed by...
• Section 127260.
  (a) The Advisory Health Council, upon review of a decision of the department, shall do one of the following:(1) Enter an order affirming the decision of the...
• Section 127265.
  Where the order of the Advisory Health Council remands the decision of the department pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 127260, the council may direct...
• Section 127270.
  An appellant, other than an agency of the state or the Board of Regents of the University of California, who petitions pursuant to Section 127250,...
• Section 127275.
  Judicial review of a decision of the Advisory Health Council affirming the decision of the department pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 127260 may be...
• Section 127280.
  (a) Every health facility licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2, except a health facility owned and operated by the state,...
• Section 127280.1.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, up to two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) of the moneys collected pursuant to Section 127280 may be used by...
• Section 127285.
  (a)  Health facilities and clinics, except for chronic dialysis clinics as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 1204, shall annually report to the office all...
• Section 127290.
  (a)  The department shall contract with agencies approved pursuant to Section 127155 for the purpose of providing agencies with funds to assist them to perform...
• Section 127295.
  The Legislature finds that funds available to the office, the health systems agencies, and the area health planning agencies for the implementation of this chapter...
• Section 127300.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and after January 1, 1987, the requirement that health facilities and specialty clinics apply for, and obtain, certificates...

Last modified: October 22, 2018