Code of Maine Rules
10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
144 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - GENERAL
Chapter 503 - MAINE CERTIFICATE OF NEED PROCEDURES MANUAL FOR HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (OTHER THAN NURSING CARE FACILITIES)
Chapter 4 - THE SCOPE OF CERTIFICATE OF NEED - COVERED ACTIVITIES
Section 144-503-4-6 - Time Spans Specified

A. No health care facility or other party required to obtain a Certificate of Need shall split what should properly be considered a single capital expenditure into discrete components undertaken during more than one accounting period (generally one fiscal year) to evade the cost limitations of the program. In determining whether a particular project involves a capital expenditure requiring a Certificate of Need, the Department will take into consideration the aggregate cost of any future components of such project that are proposed to be undertaken during a thirty-six (36) month period beginning on the date the obligation for the first such component is incurred.

B. In determining whether a proposal involves licensed bed capacity changes requiring a Certificate of Need, the Department will take into separate consideration increases, decreases, redistribution and relocations occurring over two-year periods subsequent to the effective date of the program.