Virginia Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017) |
Title 12. Health |
Agency 5. Department of Health |
Chapter 230. State Medical Facilities Plan |
Section 420. Nonemergent cardiac catheterization
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Proposals to provide elective interventional cardiac procedures such as PTCA, transseptal puncture, transthoracic left ventricle puncture, myocardial biopsy or any valvuoplasty procedures, diagnostic pericardiocentesis or therapeutic procedures should be approved only when open heart surgery services are available on-site in the same hospital in which the proposed non-emergent cardiac service will be located.
Historical Notes
Derived from Volume 25, Issue 09, eff. February 15, 2009.
Statutory Authority
§ 32.1-102.2 of the Code of Virginia.