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New bill would let cancer center open in state
2/27/2009
Hoping for another shot at building a $150 million specialty hospital in Atlanta, a suburban Chicago-based hospital network is pushing legislation that would tweak state rules that govern hospital construction and new medical technology and services.
Senate Bill 433, introduced Feb. 8 by several legislative heavy hitters, including Senate Majority Leader Tommie Williams, proposed designating Cancer Treatment Centers of America Inc.'s planned facility as a destination cancer hospital that would attract at least 65 percent of its patients from outside Georgia.
Read this article by Urvaksh Karkaria from the February 15, 2008 issue of the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
