PUBLIC LAW 96-79—OCT. 4, 1979
93 STAT. 615
such a review the State Agency determines that the holder of a certificate is not meeting such timetable and is not making a good faith effort to meet it, the State Agency may, after considering any recommendation made by the health systems agency which received a report from the State Agency on such review, withdraw the certificate. "(4) In issuing a certificate of need, the State shall specify in the certificate the maximum amount of capital expenditures which may be obligated under such certificate. The program shall, in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary, prescribe the extent to which a project authorized by a certificate of need shall be subject to further review if the amount of capital expenditures obligated or expected to be obligated for the project exceed the maximum specified in the certificate of need. "(5) The program shall provide that (A) the requirements of section 1532 shall apply to proceedings under the program, and 42 USC 300n-i. (B) each decision to issue a certificate of need (i) may only be issued by the State Agency, and (ii) shall, except in emergency circumstances that pose a threat to public health, be consistent with the State health plan in effect for such State under section 1524(c).
"(b)(1) Under the program a State shall not require a certificate of need for the offering of an inpatient institutional health service or the acquisition of major medical equipment for the provision of an inpatient institutional health service or the obligation of a capital expenditure for the provision of an inpatient institutional health service by— "(A) a health maintenance organization or a combination of health maintenance organizations if (i) the organization or combination of organizations has, in the service area of the organization or the service areas of the organizations in the combination, an enrollment of at least 50,000 individuals, (ii) the facility in which the service will be provided is or will be geographically located so that the service will be reasonably accessible to such enrolled individuals, and (iii) at least 75 percent of the patients who can reasonably be expected to receive the institutional health service will be individuals enrolled with such organization or organizations in the combination; "(B) a health care facility if (i) the facility primarily provides or will provide inpatient health services, (ii) the facility is or will be controlled, directly or indirectly, by a health maintenance organization or a combination of health maintenance organizations which has, in the service area of the organization or service areas of the organizations in the combination, an enrollment of at least 50,000 individuals, (iii) the facility is or will be geographically located so that the service will be reasonably accessible to such enrolled individuals, and (iv) at least 75 percent of the patients who can reasonably be expected to receive the institutional health service will be individuals enrolled with such organization or organizations in the combination, or "(C) a health care facility (or portion thereof) if (i) the facility is or will be leased by a health maintenance organization or combination of health maintenance organizations which has, in the service area of the organization or the service areas of the organizations in the combination, an enrollment of at least 50,000 individuals and on the date the application is submitted under paragraph (2) at least fifteen years remain in the term of the lease, (ii) the facility is or will be geographically located so
42 USC 300m-3.
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