Certificate
of Need
In 1987, the Federal Mandate for CON was repealed and because of continued rising medical cost the federal government switched to a system of payment based upon the patient’s diagnosis or DRG.
In other
words, the CON was created by Federal Government intervention on free enterprise. It did not work, they abandoned it and the states were left with the mess to clean up. All information in this slide
presentation is the express opinion of Health Watch USA.