This rule implements certain provisions of Enrolled Committee Substitute for House Bill 2194 which was passed by the Legislature on March 6, 1991, and was signed by the Governor on March 20, 1991. The bill created a new code section, W. Va. Code '16-2D-5(i). This section authorizes the Health Care Cost Review Authority to promulgate rules for the certificate of need review of applications for the conversion by hospitals of acute care beds to skilled care beds which are only medicare certified.
W. Va. Code R. § 65-20-2