Iowa Code 10A.722 – Authority to adopt rules
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The department shall adopt, with approval of the council, such administrative rules as are necessary to enable it to implement this part. These rules shall include:
1. Additional procedures and criteria for review of applications for certificates of need.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 10A.722
- Applicant: means a person authorized to regularly lend moneys to be secured by a mortgage on real property in this state, a licensed real estate broker, a licensed attorney, a participating abstractor, or a licensed closing agent. See Iowa Code 16.92
- Council: means the state health facilities council established by this part. See Iowa Code 10A.711
- Department: means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. See Iowa Code 10A.101
- Institutional health service: means any health service furnished in or through institutional health facilities or health maintenance organizations, including mobile health services. See Iowa Code 10A.711
- Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
- Technologically innovative equipment: means equipment potentially useful for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes which introduces new technology in the diagnosis or treatment of disease, the usefulness of which is not well enough established to permit a specific plan of need to be developed for the state. See Iowa Code 10A.711
2. Uniform procedures for variations in application of criteria specified by section 10A.714 for use in formal review of applications for certificates of need, when such variations are appropriate to the purpose of a particular review or to the type of institutional health service proposed in the application being reviewed.
3. Uniform procedures for summary reviews conducted under section 10A.717.
4. Criteria for determining when it is not feasible to complete formal review of an application for a certificate of need within the time limits specified in section 10A.719. The rules adopted under this subsection shall include criteria for determining whether an application proposes introduction of technologically innovative equipment, and if so, procedures to be followed in reviewing the application. However, a rule adopted under this subsection shall not permit a deferral of more than sixty days beyond the time when a decision is required under section 10A.719, unless both the applicant and the department agree to a longer deferment.