SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1935        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 904

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to ensuring regulatory parity among ambulatory surgicenters..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any general or special law or regulation to the contrary, the determination of need review required to establish a single specialty ambulatory surgery center shall not be delegated to the commissioner of the department of public health but shall be subject to the same review as multi-specialty ambulatory surgery centers.