Certificate-of-need laws and substance use treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Certificate-of-need (CON) laws in place in most US states require healthcare providers to prove to a state board that their proposed services are necessary in order to be allowed to open or expand. While CON laws most commonly target hospital and nursing home beds, many states require CONs for other types of healthcare providers and services. As of 2020, 23 states retain CON laws specifically for substance use treatment, requiring providers to prove their "economic necessity" before opening or expanding. In contrast to the extensive academic literature on how hospital and nursing home CON laws affect costs and access, substance use CON laws are essentially unstudied.

Methods

Using 2002-19 data on substance use treatment facilities from the Substance Abuse and Ment

SUBMITTER: Bailey J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9118675 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature