§ 68-11-1619 — Application for medicare skilled nursing facility

(a) During each fiscal year after June 30, 2020, until June 30, 2025, the commission shall not issue certificates of need for new nursing home beds, including the conversion of hospital beds to nursing home beds or swing beds, other than one hundred twenty-five (125) beds per fiscal year, to be certified as medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) beds as authorized in this section. (b) The number of medicare SNF beds issued under this section shall not exceed thirty (30) for each applicant. The applicant shall specify in the application the skilled services to be provided and how the applicant intends to provide the skilled services. In reviewing applications, the commission shall consider the application without regard as to whether the applicant currently has medicare SNF beds. If the pool of one hundred twenty-five (125) medicare SNF beds created by this section is not depleted prior to June 30 of the fiscal year, then the beds remaining in the pool must be considered to be available to applicants who apply before June 30 of each fiscal year, even though review may occur after June 30 of that year.

Legislative History

Amended by 2022 Tenn. Acts, ch. 1119, s 144, eff. 7/1/2022. Amended by 2021 Tenn. Acts, ch. 557, s 1, eff. 10/1/2021. Acts 2002, ch. 780, § 4; 2010 , ch. 1100, § 124; 2012 , ch. 575, § 1.