§ 135.65 — Procedure upon receipt of application — public notification

Iowa § 135.65

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title IV: PUBLIC HEALTH
• Ch. 135: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES — PUBLIC HEALTH

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1. Within fifteen business days after receipt of an application for a certificate of need, the
department shall examine the application for form and completeness and accept or reject
it. An application shall be rejected only if it fails to provide all information required by the
department pursuant to section 135.62, subsection 1. The department shall promptly return
to the applicant any rejected application, with an explanation of the reasons for its rejection.
2. Upon acceptance of an application for a certificate of need, the department shall
promptly undertake to notify all affected persons in writing that formal review of the
application has been initiated. Notification to those affected persons who are consumers or
third-party payers or other payers for health services may be provided by distribution of the
pertinent information to the news media.
3. Each application accepted by the department shall be formally reviewed to enable the
departmenttodeterminewhetherornottograntthecertificateofneed. Aformalreviewshall
consist, at a minimum, of the following steps:
a. Evaluation of the application against the criteria specified in section 135.63.
b. A public hearing on the application, to be held prior to completion of the evaluation
required by paragraph “a”.
4. When a hearing is to be held pursuant to subsection 3, paragraph “b”, the department
shall give at least ten days’ notice of the time and place of the hearing. At the hearing,
any affected person or that person’s designated representative shall have the opportunity to
present testimony.

Legislative History

[C79, 81, §135.66]