Rhode Island
For Rhode Island, con program status is active; hospital capital threshold ($) is in excess of five million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($5,250,000), adjusted annually by CPI-U; non-hospital capital threshold ($) is in excess of five million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($5,250,000); new healthcare equipment with capital costs exceeding $2,250,000 is separately reviewable; bed change trigger is any capital expenditure that results in the addition of a health service or that changes the bed capacity of a healthcare facility; nursing facility bed increases up to the greater of ten beds or ten percent of licensed capacity may be exempted; reviewing agency is Rhode Island state department of health, recorded from its source on 2026-08-18.
- State
- Rhode Island our reading
- CON program status
- active our reading
- Hospital capital threshold ($)
- in excess of five million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($5,250,000), adjusted annually by CPI-U verified
- Non-hospital capital threshold ($)
- in excess of five million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($5,250,000); new healthcare equipment with capital costs exceeding $2,250,000 is separately reviewable verified
- Bed change trigger
- any capital expenditure that results in the addition of a health service or that changes the bed capacity of a healthcare facility; nursing facility bed increases up to the greater of ten beds or ten percent of licensed capacity may be exempted verified
- Reviewing agency
- Rhode Island state department of health verified
- Repeal date
- N/A our reading
- Statutory citation
- R.I. Gen. Laws §23-15-2(10) our reading
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
Any expenditure, except acquisitions of an existing healthcare facility, that will not result in a change in the services or bed capacity of the healthcare facility by, or on behalf of, an existing healthcare facility in excess of five million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($5,250,000) which is a capital expenditure including expenditures for predevelopment activities
— webserver.rilegislature.gov, retrieved 2026-08-18
Source
- webserver.rilegislature.govhttps://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE23/23-15/23-15-2.htm