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Welcome to the West Virginia Health Care Authority’s web site. The programs administered by the Authority generally have two primary purposes: to constrain the rising cost of health care and to assure reasonable access to necessary health services.
In the Rural Health Systems Program, the Planning Division, and in the Certificate of Need (CON) program, access to necessary health service is evaluated. To accomplish these goals, programs such as Rate Review and CON can quantitatively demonstrate some of the costs they constrain.
Health Care Financial Disclosure and Health Planning can also be used to draw logical implications as to how those programs work to constrain costs.
Additionally, the Authority assures public access to the information compiled under its programs, and publishes a newsletter detailing applications received and processed.
NEWS:
4/23/2008 NOTICE OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD
The West Virginia Health Care Authority (Authority) has scheduled a public comment period
on the proposed Amendment to Certificate of Need Standards:
Cardiac Catheterization Standards
Written comments may be submitted in care of Dayle D. Stepp, Director of Certificate of Need,
at the address below and must be received no later than May 23, 2008.
Copies of proposed Standards may be viewed (above link) or obtained by contacting
Brenda Hancock at 558-7000 or toll-free at 1-888-558-7002.
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