The state department shall consider the following factors in assessing the health needs of the citizens and communities of Indiana:
- (1) The availability of alternative, less costly, or more effective methods of providing services.
- (2) The availability of resources, including health manpower, management personnel, and funds for capital and operating needs for sources to meet the identified need.
- (3) The availability of alternative uses of available resources for the provision of other health care services.
- (4) The capacity of existing market conditions to improve quality assurance, cost containment, and responsiveness to consumer's preferences.
- (5) The capacity of existing public or private reimbursement and utilization review programs, and other public and private cost control measures, to give effect to consumer preferences and establish appropriate incentives for capital allocation.
(6) The competitive factors of the free enterprise system, with the goal of encouraging competition and efficiency in the utilization of health resources.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-3.4-4.]
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.13.