Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES
Division 60 - Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee
Chapter 50 - Certificate of Need Program
Section 19 CSR 60-50.300 - Retail Licensees

(1) Affiliate means an organization:

(2) Applicant means all owner(s) and operator(s) of any new institutional health service.

(3) By or on behalf of a health care facility includes any expenditures made by the facility itself as well as capital expenditures made by other persons that assist the facility in offering services to its patients/residents.

(4) Cost means-

(5) Construction of a new hospital means the establishment of a newly-licensed facility at a specific location under the Hospital Licensing Law, section 197.020.2, RSMo, as the result of building, renovation, modernization, and/or conversion of any structure not licensed as a hospital.

(6) Expedited application means a shorter than full application and review period as defined in 19 CSR 60-50.420 and 19 CSR 6050.430 for any long-term care expansion or replacement as defined in section 197.318.4.-6., RSMo, long-term care renovation and modernization, or the replacement of any major medical equipment as defined in section (12) of this rule.

(7) Full review means the complete analytical period for applications as described in 19 CSR 60-50.420 and 19 CSR 60-50.430 for the development of health care facilities and acquisition of major medical equipment.

(8) Generally accepted accounting principles pertaining to capital expenditures include, but are not limited to-

(9) Health care facility means those described in section 197.366, RSMo.

(10) Health care facility expenditure includes the capital value of new construction or renovation costs, architectural/engineering fees, equipment not in the construction contract, land acquisition costs, consultants'/legal fees, interest during construction, predevelopment costs as defined in section 197.305(12), RSMo, in excess of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000), any existing land and building converted to the applicant's medical use for the first time, and any other capitalizable costs incurred over a twelve- (12-) month period as listed on the "Proposed Project Budget" (Form MO 580-1863), included herein.

(11) Health maintenance organizations means entities as defined in section 354.400(10), RSMo, except for activities directly related to the provision of insurance only.

(12) Major medical equipment means any piece of equipment and collection of functionally related devices acquired to operate the equipment and additional related costs such as software, shielding, and installation, acquired over a twelve- (12-) month period with an aggregate cost of one (1) million dollars or more, when the equipment is intended to provide the following diagnostic or treatment services and related variations, including, but not limited to:

(13) Non-applicability review means a Letter of Intent process to document that a CON is not needed for a proposal when the capital expenditure is less than the expenditure minimum in section 197.305(6), RSMo; the proposal is to increase the number of beds by ten (10) or ten percent (10%) of total bed capacity, whichever is less, over a two- (2-) year period since any long-term care beds were last licensed, the facility has had no resident care class I deficiencies within the last eighteen (18) months and has maintained at least an eighty-five percent (85%) average occupancy rate for the previous six (6) quarters as shown by CON's most recent Six-Quarter Occupancy of Intermediate Care and Skilled Nursing Facility (or Residential Care and Assisted Living Facility) Licensed Beds report published on the CON website, and the capital expenditure is less than the expenditure minimum in section 197.305(6), RSMo; an exemption or exception is found in accordance with section 197.312, RSMo; or the proposal meets the definition of a nonsubstantive project.

(14) Nonsubstantive project includes but is not limited to at least one (1) of the following situations:

(15) "Request to relicense," a health care facility licensed under Chapter 197 or Chapter 198 that ceases offering health services may seek verification to relicense the facility within twelve (12) months from the date of closure under the same general licensure conditions at the time the facility ceased offering health services. Beds must be relicensed in the same category of care at the time of closure and cannot exceed the licensed bed capacity at the time of closure.

(16) Offer, when used in connection with health services, means that the applicant asserts having the capability and the means to provide and operate the specified health services.

(17) Predevelopment costs mean expenditures as defined in section 197.305(12), RSMo, including consulting, legal, architectural, engineering, financial, and other activities directly related to the proposed project, but excluding the application fee for submission of the application for the proposed project.

(18) For new hospitals or major medical equipment projects, service area means a geographic region made up of an area such as a county or contiguous areas such as a set of contiguous counties or zip codes, appropriate to the proposed service, documented by the applicant and approved by the committee. For long-term care projects, the fifteen- (15-) mile radius calculation must be used.

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