Upcoming special session almost as much about health care as budget
The 2015 Special Session is being referred to as a budget session but it could just as easily be described as the special session on health care. Thirty-two bills have been filed for consideration in the 2015A session and 40 percent of them impact health care, either through substantive policy changes, financing, or both, including a bill that would eliminate CON for general hospitals, long-term- care hospitals and “tertiary services” such as pediatric open heart surgery, organ transplantation and neonatal…