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2008 National Directory

National Directory * State Certificate of Need Programs* Health Planning Agencies * 2008

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 News

• Book Review: What's Wrong with the American Healthcare Non-system (Health Affairs )

• Massachusetts Examines Relationship Between Public Reporting of Angioplasty Mortality and Its Utilization (The Boston Globe )
  
  

• States Wrestling With How to Regulate ASCs Under CON (Am. Med. News )
  
  

• Novel NJ Outreach Program Reduces Utilization of ER (The Philadelphia Inquirer )
  
  

• South Carolina's CON Process Causes Hospitals to Negotiate Their Cardiac Surgery Applications Jointly (The State)
  

• CON Finds HCA Deficient in Meeting Community's Public Health Needs (The Tennessean)
  

• Alabama Legislature Debates Ending CON.. Again (Birmingham News )
  
  

• Physicians question ethics of NC's CON process (Raleigh News & Observer )
  
  

• SCHIP: Doctor-Owned Hospitals Win; Tobacco Companies Lose (Update on Stark Bill article below) (The Wall Street Journal )
  
  

• Illinois Manages to Make CON Exciting! (Chicago Tribune)
  
  

• The Case for Community Health Centers (Politico )
  
  

• New Stark Bill Might Outlaw Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals (The Wall Street Journal ) 

• Massachusetts Subjects Ambulatory Surgical Centers to CON (American Medical News ) 

• Texas Leads the Nation in Economic Rape of Its Community Hospitals (The Dallas Morning News )
  
  

• Hospital Wars in Mass: Outpatient Services and "the Marketplace" in the Suburbs of Boston (The Boston Globe )
  
  

• NJ Legislation Would Require Disclosure of Physician Ownership of Outpatient Facilities (The Bergen Record )
  
  

• Is Cyberknife Covered by Medicare in Your State? (The New York Times )
  
  

• Philadelphia Area Hospitals' Low Volumes for Organ Transplantation Put Them in Jeopardy (Philadelphia Inquirer )
  
  

• Five Myths About Our Health Care System (Washington Post)
  
  

• The Ultimate Safety Net: Public Health (The Sacramento Bee ):
   
  

• New Freestanding Emergency Facilities Challenge Hospital ERs (U.S. News & World Report )
  
  

• Alaska Governor Palin's Op-Ed Against CON, February 28, 2008 (Anchorage Daily News )
  
  

• Governor Palin Failed to Eliminate CON in Alaska (The Washington Post )
  
  

• New Regulations for MA Determination of Need (CON) Program Designed to Level The Playing Field for Hospitals (The Boston Globe)
  
  

• Surging into Bethlehem: "Surge Capacity " Becomes a Political Issue (The Washington Post )
  
  

• CON to Limit Proton Therapy in Michigan (The New York Times )
  
  

• HANYS Issues Report Card on Report Cards; Only Governmental Reports Rate an "A"
  
  

• FTC Supports Bill to Eliminate CON in Florida (Jacksonville Business Journal )
  
  

• "Single Specialty" Surgery Centers Now Exempt from CON in Georgia (The Jacksonville Times-Union )
  
  

• Protons and Pesos (The New York Times)
  
  

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