The PACE Act would also pro-
vide expansion exceptions for
certain qualified physician-owned
hospitals that were under devel-
opment but unable to secure
Medicare Provider Agreements
before the ACA's Dec. 31, 2010,
deadline. Facilities that meet 1 of
the following 2 criteria would be
allowed to proceed with previous-
ly planned construction:
• The facility had a binding writ-
ten agreement for construction,
renovation or lease, and spent at
least $2.5 million before the ACA
was signed into law on March 23,
2010; or
• The facility had obtained a
state certificate of need (where
CONs are applicable) on or
before March 23, 2010.
The exception criteria proposed
in the PACE Act mirror those cur-
rently applied to long-term care
hospitals, which also operate
under a new construction morato-
rium.
A proposal's potential
While the PACE Act has won the
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