A certificate of need is required before an ambulatory care facility:
(1) Offers any health service:
(i) Through a health care facility;
(ii) In space leased from a health care facility; or
(iii) In space on land leased from a health care facility;
(2) To provide those services, makes an expenditure, if a certificate of need would be required under § 19-120(k) of this subtitle for the expenditure by or on behalf of a health care facility; or
(3) Does anything else for which the federal act requires a certificate of need and that the Commission has not exempted from that requirement.
Structure Maryland Statutes
Title 19 - Health Care Facilities
Subtitle 1 - Health Care Planning and Systems Regulation
Part II - Health Planning and Development
Section 19-115 - Duties of Commission in Health Planning and Development
Section 19-116 - Studies of Systems Capacity in Health Services
Section 19-118 - State Health Plan
Section 19-119 - Institution-Specific Plan
Section 19-120 - Certificate of Need -- Health Care Facilities
Section 19-120.1 - Certificate of Conformance
Section 19-121 - Certificate of Need -- Health Maintenance Organizations
Section 19-122 - Certificate of Need -- Domiciliary Care Projects
Section 19-124 - Certificate of Need -- Direct Admissions Into Comprehensive Care Nursing Bed
Section 19-125 - Certificate of Need -- Ambulatory Care Facilities
Section 19-126 - Certificate of Need -- Action on Applications
Section 19-128 - Appeal of Administrative Decision