Certificate of need laws require providers to prove public need before offering a service. Mr. Foster claims the certificate of need laws in his state do not protect smaller hospitals from having services poached, but only stifle competition and create monopolies.
“These [certificate of need] laws give large corporate healthcare providers regional monopolies on healthcare in our state. These laws prevent doctors and other healthcare professionals from being able to open competing healthcare services against healthcare giants … These large healthcare companies claim that without these laws to restrict competition, all of our rural hospitals will go out of business. That is ludicrous,” Mr. Foster writes.
To combat certificate of need restrictions, Mr. Foster proposed the Mississippi Access to Care Act, which removes the requirements for clinicians or ambulatory service centers to obtain a certificate of need to practice.
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