Georgia's Health-Care Certificate System

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Georgia’s ‘certificate of need’ rules have led a swath of states to roll them back in recent years

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Georgia is one of dozens of states that require health-care facilities to ask for permission to build or expand by obtaining “certificates of need” The intent of the decades-old system is to reduce duplicating medical services in an area, which, supporters argue, drives up health care spending and reduces quality.

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