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20-001711CON  CORNERSTONE HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE, INC. vs AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION  (2020)
Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida Filed: Apr. 01, 2020
Whether the certificate of need (“CON”) applications filed by Cornerstone Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc. (“Cornerstone”); Suncoast Hospice of Hillsborough, LLC (“Suncoast”); and VITAS Healthcare Corporation of Florida (“VITAS”), for a new hospice program in Agency for Health Care Administration (“AHCA” or the “Agency”) Service Area 6A (Hillsborough County), satisfy the applicable statutory and rule review criteria sufficiently to warrant approval, and, if so, which of the three applications, on balance, best meets the applicable criteria for approval.With a published need for one new program, as between three competing applicants, Suncoast's proposed hospice best satisfies statutory and rule criteria, and should therefore be approved for Hillsborough County.
20-001733CON  SUNCOAST HOSPICE OF HILLSBOROUGH, LLC vs CORNERSTONE HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE, INC., AND VITAS HEALTHCARE CORPORATION OF FLORIDA  (2020)
Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida Filed: Apr. 03, 2020
Whether the certificate of need (“CON”) applications filed by Cornerstone Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc. (“Cornerstone”); Suncoast Hospice of Hillsborough, LLC (“Suncoast”); and VITAS Healthcare Corporation of Florida (“VITAS”), for a new hospice program in Agency for Health Care Administration (“AHCA” or the “Agency”) Service Area 6A (Hillsborough County), satisfy the applicable statutory and rule review criteria sufficiently to warrant approval, and, if so, which of the three applications, on balance, best meets the applicable criteria for approval.With a published need for one new program, as between three competing applicants, Suncoast's proposed hospice best satisfies statutory and rule criteria, and should therefore be approved for Hillsborough County.
21-000888CON  SEASONS HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF PINELLAS COUNTY, LLC vs AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION  (2021)
Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida Filed: Mar. 09, 2021
Whether there is “an error in the Fixed Need Pool numbers” for hospice as calculated by the Agency for Health Care Administration (“AHCA”) pursuant to Florida Administrative Code Rule 59C-1.0355(4)(a), and as published by AHCA on February 5, 2021, pursuant to rule 59C-1.008(2)(a).Petitioners have failed to demonstrate that the FNP determination under challenge herein is in error. Not proper to consider "provisional" deaths data and VA hospice admissions.
21-000889CON  THE HOSPICE OF FLORIDA SUNCOAST, INC. vs AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION  (2021)
Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida Filed: Mar. 09, 2021
Whether there is “an error in the Fixed Need Pool numbers” for hospice as calculated by the Agency for Health Care Administration (“AHCA”) pursuant to Florida Administrative Code Rule 59C-1.0355(4)(a), and as published by AHCA on February 5, 2021, pursuant to rule 59C-1.008(2)(a).Petitioners have failed to demonstrate that the FNP determination under challenge herein is in error. Not proper to consider "provisional" deaths data and VA hospice admissions.

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