Report of the Committee

• August 1, 2006 - State Capitol Building, SCR 2 - 1:00 pm

  Testimony was given by:

  Tom Piper, Director, Missouri Certificate of Need Program. Mr. Piper provided the following:

  • Handout
  • PowerPoint Presentation

  Robert Cimasi, President, Health Capitol Consultants. Mr. Cimasi provided the following:

  • Handout

  Daniel Landon, VP of Government Relations, Missouri Hospital Association. Mr. Landon provided the following:

  • Handout

• August 30, 2006 - Monsanto, 800 N. Lindbergh, St. Louis, MO 63167 - 12:00 pm
  
  • "My Hospital Was Doomed" by Bruce C. Wilson

  Witnesses In Favor of the Retention of CON:

  Louise Probst, St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition. Ms. Probst provided the following:

  • Handout
  • PowerPoint Presentation

  Robert Knowles, Monsanto

  
  

  Witnesses In Favor of the Repeal of CON:

  Bruce Hillis, Missouri First - Presented book to the committee "What States Can Do to Reform Health Care: A Free-Market Primer"

     by: James R. Copland, Roy Cordato, John R. Graham, Nin Owcharenko, Brett J. Skinner, Shirley V. Svorny, and J.P. Wieske

  • Testimony

  Jan Vest, Signature Health Services, Inc.

  • Testimony
  • Handout

  Patrick Devereux, Citizen

  • Testimony

  Rock Erekson, Metro Heart Group of St. Louis, Inc.

• September 12, 2006 - State Capitol Building, Senate Lounge - 1:00 pm
  • Testimony of the Missouri State Medical Association

  Witnesses In Favor of the Retention of CON:

  Jean Mitchell, Ph.D. on behalf of Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, sponsored by the Mo. Hospital Association, and Mo. Physical Therapy Association.

  Jon Dolan with Mo. Health Care Association

  Jim Kistler with Associated Industries of Mo.

  Tony Reinhart with Ford Motor Company

  
  

  Witnesses in favor of the repeal of CON:

  Robert Boeger (private citizen)

  Missouri CON: The Rest of the Story - Testimony of the Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee to the Missouri Senate Interim Committee on Certificate of Need

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  Established pursuant to the Missouri Constitution.

  The committee shall consist of five members, three Republicans and two Democrats, and will be responsible for studying Certificate of Need in the State of Missouri. The duties of the committee shall be:
  

  1) To evaluate options that would limit or repeal the application of certificate of need requirements for hospitals and other healthcare facilities and the potential consequences.

  2) To evalutate the impact of physician ownership and self-referral in healthcare.

  3) To examine the effect of the current certificate of need (CON) law on consumer choice.

  4) To evaluate the effect of the current CON law on flexibility in developing alternative healthcare delivery systems that are sufficient to meet the needs of the expanding elderly population.

  5) To explore the impact of various changes to the CON law on competition in the healthcare market.

  The committee shall be staffed by counsel from Senate Research and may hold public hearings at locations to be determined by the chairman. Reasonable, actual and necessary expenses of the committee shall be reimbursed by the Missouri Senate.

  The committee shall issue a report and make recommendations, as deemed appropriate by a majority of the members of the committee, to the general assembly for legislative action no later than January 26, 2007.