North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 14 - Director, Division of Health Service Regulation
Subchapter C - CERTIFICATE OF NEED REGULATIONS
Section .3900 - CRITERIA AND STANDARDS FOR GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY PROCEDURE ROOMS IN LICENSED HEALTH SERVICE FACILTIES
Section 14C .3903 - PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

(1) identify the proposed service area;

(2) identify all existing and approved GI endoscopy rooms owned or operated by the applicant or a related entity located in the proposed service area;

(3) provide projected utilization for each of the first three full fiscal years of operation following completion of the project for all GI endoscopy rooms identified in Item (2) of this Rule;

(4) project to perform an average of at least 1,500 GI endoscopy procedures per GI endoscopy room during the third full fiscal year of operation following completion of the project in the GI endoscopy rooms identified in Item (2) of this Rule; and

(5) provide the assumptions and methodology used to project the utilization required by this Rule.