Sec. 19a-639c. Certificate of need. Waiver for replacement equipment.
Sec. 19a-639c. Certificate of need. Waiver for replacement equipment. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 19a-638 or section 19a-639, the office may waive
the requirements of said sections and grant a certificate of need to any health care facility
or institution or provider or any state health care facility or institution or provider proposing to replace major medical equipment, a CT scanner, PET scanner, PET/CT scanner
or MRI scanner, cineangiography equipment or a linear accelerator if:
(1) The health care facility or institution or provider has previously obtained a certificate of need for the equipment to be replaced; and
(2) The replacement value or expenditure is less than three million dollars.
(P.A. 98-150, S. 7, 17; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 94, 121; P.A. 05-93, S. 6; P.A. 06-28, S. 5; 06-64, S. 9; 06-196, S. 245.)
History: P.A. 98-150 effective June 5, 1998; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 made a technical change by adding the first
reference to "provider" to "health care facility, institution"; P.A. 05-93 extended waiver provisions to certain scanning
equipment, rather than to "imaging equipment", and made technical and conforming changes, effective July 1, 2005; P.A.
06-28 amended Subdiv. (3) by increasing maximum permissible replacement value of major medical equipment and certain
scanners and linear accelerators eligible for waiver from certificate of need review from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000, effective
July 1, 2006; P.A. 06-64 deleted former Subdiv. (2) which limited waivers for replacement equipment to equipment or
accelerators not exceeding a specific value and redesignated existing Subdiv. (3) as Subdiv. (2), effective July 1, 2006;
P.A. 06-196 made technical changes, effective June 7, 2006.