Mississippi
For Mississippi, has con program is yes; covered services is hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, chemical dependency hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, end-stage renal disease facilities, intermediate care facilities, ambulatory surgical facilities, home health agencies, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, pediatric skilled nursing facilities, long-term care hospitals, comprehensive medical rehabilitation facilities; moratorium is Skilled nursing facilities. Intermediate care facilities. Converting hospitals beds to skilled or intermediate nursing home care. Medicaid-certified child/adolescent psychiatric or chemical dependency beds. Intermediate care facilities for the intellectually disabled; statute citation is Miss. Code Ann. § 41-7-171 et seq, recorded from its source on 2026-08-13.
- State
- Mississippi
- Has CON program
- yes
- Covered services
- hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, chemical dependency hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, end-stage renal disease facilities, intermediate care facilities, ambulatory surgical facilities, home health agencies, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, pediatric skilled nursing facilities, long-term care hospitals, comprehensive medical rehabilitation facilities
- Moratorium
- Skilled nursing facilities. Intermediate care facilities. Converting hospitals beds to skilled or intermediate nursing home care. Medicaid-certified child/adolescent psychiatric or chemical dependency beds. Intermediate care facilities for the intellectually disabled.
- Statute citation
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-7-171 et seq.
- Hospital threshold
- $5,000,000 per rpcconsulting.com
- Long-term care threshold
- $5,000,000 per rpcconsulting.com
- General threshold
- $5,000,000 per rpcconsulting.com
- Major equipment threshold
- $3,500,000 per rpcconsulting.com
What the source says
Constructing, developing or establishing a new health care facility. Relocating a health facility. Relocating major medical equipment to a site more than a mile away. Changing bed complement. Offering covered services not offered in previous 12 months.
— ncsl.org, retrieved 2026-08-13
What rpcconsulting.com says
The new law raised the minimum dollar amount for capital expenditures requiring a CON from $2 million to $5 million, and the threshold for the acquisition of major medical equipment requiring a CON from $1.5 million to $3.5 million.
— rpcconsulting.com, retrieved 2026-08-13
Sources
- ncsl.orghttps://www.ncsl.org/health/certificate-of-need-state-laws
- rpcconsulting.comhttps://rpcconsulting.com/potential-certificate-of-need-change-legislation/