§300t–13 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

§300t–13 Grants to States for reduction of excess hospital capacity

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XIV— - HEALTH RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT › Part Part E— - Program To Assist and Encourage Voluntary Discontinuance of Unneeded Hospital Services and Conversion of Unneeded Hospital Services to Other Health Services Needed by Community › § 300t–13

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may give grants to the State agencies named in section 300m(b)(3) to try ways to reduce extra hospital capacity. The grants can help find where excess beds or services exist, teach the public about the costs, create programs to cut excess in ways that save money, remove barriers, plan and carry out decertifying inappropriate facilities, and fund other related activities. Grants are made under rules the Secretary sets.

Title 42, §300t–13

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(a)For the purpose of demonstrating the effectiveness of various means for reducing excesses in resources and facilities of hospitals (referred to in this section as “excess hospital capacity”), the Secretary may make grants to State Agencies designated under section 300m(b)(3) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title to assist such Agencies in—

(1)identifying (by geographic region or by health service) excess hospital capacity,

(2)developing programs to inform the public of the costs associated with excess hospital capacity,

(3)developing programs to reduce excess hospital capacity in a manner which will produce the greatest savings in the cost of health care delivery,

(4)developing means to overcome barriers to the reduction of excess hospital capacity,

(5)in planning, evaluating, and carrying out programs to decertify health care facilities providing health services that are not appropriate, and

(6)any other activity related to the reduction of excess hospital capacity.

(b)Grants under subsection (a) shall be made on such terms and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 300m of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original a reference to section 1521 of act

July 1, 1944, which was repealed effective Jan. 1, 1987, by Pub. L. 99–660, title VII, § 701(a), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3799. Pub. L. 101–354, § 2, Aug. 10, 1990, 104 Stat. 410, enacted section 1503 of act

July 1, 1944, which is classified to section 300m of this title.