Certificate of Need | BakerHostetler

Our attorneys have extensive experience advising healthcare clients on health planning and certificate of need (CON) matters in Georgia and surrounding states.

Assisted throughout the appeals process two hospital systems in securing CON authorization to offer open heart surgery despite the opposition of competing hospital systems.
Helped a client develop and obtain approval to establish a unique skilled nursing and intermediate care facility designed to meet the needs of special populations while benefiting taxpayers despite the opposition of competing healthcare facilities.
Assisted a large hospital system in obtaining a CON to establish Gamma Knife services despite the opposition of three competing hospital systems.
Worked with a large hospital system to obtain CON approval to establish several neonatal intensive care units over the opposition of competing providers.
Assisted a large hospital system in successfully challenging large multispecialty ambulatory surgery centers throughout the administrative and judicial appeals process.
Assisting a large hospital system in establishing hospital-based radiation therapy services despite the opposition of another large hospital system as well as the opposition of a free-standing multistate radiation therapy provider.