The Office of Inspector General (OIG), Cabinet for Health and Family Services filed amendments to the following regulations on June 9, 2025:
900 KAR 5:020E & 900 KAR 5:020 State Health Plan for facilities and services. Regulation contains the State Health Plan as a Material Incorporated by Reference.
The emergency regulation does the following:
The ordinary regulation incorporates the language from the emergency regulation and includes the following:
No changes were made to the State Health Plan as a result of comments received.
- 2025 State Health Plan - ordinary
- Increases access to ambulatory surgical centers for specialists who perform glaucoma and cornea surgeries.
- Increases access to cardiac catheterization services
900 KAR 6:075E & 900 KAR 6:075 Certificate of need nonsubstantive review. Regulation details which facilities and services that are subject to nonsubstantive review for the purposes of Certificate of Need (CON). This amendment is necessary to align with updates to the new State Health Plan which increases access to Level II Special Care Neonatal beds and grants nonsubstantive review status to CON applications submitted by licensed health facilities creating special care neonatal beds.
The ordinary regulation aims to increase access to diagnostic cardiac catheterization procedures.
The following change was made to provide consistency between this administrative regulation and the State Health Plan requirements.
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Section 2(3)(k)6.
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After "currently defined; or" insert the following:
(l) The proposal involves an application to establish a Level II program with four (4) Level II Special Neonatal beds and the applicant is under common ownership with an existing provider of Level II services within the same development district.
Delete the existing (l) in its entirety.
900 KAR 6_075E AAC
The regulation can be found 900 KAR 6:075E Nonsubstantive Review of Certificate of Need.
902 KAR 55:015E- Schedules of controlled substances
Declares an emergency to make Bromazolam a Schedule I controlled substance in Kentucky.
This regulation can be found 902 KAR 55:015E- Schedules of controlled substances
902 KAR 55:015- Schedules of controlled substances
Makes Bromazolam a Schedule I controlled substance in Kentucky.
This regulation can be found 902 KAR 55:015- Schedules of controlled substances