# Mississippi — Certificate of need capital expenditure thresholds by US state

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, not stated by the source above)_
- **Long-term care threshold:** $5,000,000 _(per rpcconsulting.com, not stated by the source above)_
- **General threshold:** $5,000,000 _(per rpcconsulting.com, not stated by the source above)_
- **Major equipment threshold:** $3,500,000 _(per rpcconsulting.com, not stated by the source above)_

## 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.

## 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.

Source: https://rpcconsulting.com/potential-certificate-of-need-change-legislation/

## Source

- https://www.ncsl.org/health/certificate-of-need-state-laws
- https://rpcconsulting.com/potential-certificate-of-need-change-legislation/

Last verified: 2026-08-13. Review by: 2027-02-09.
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