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(3) The extent of any likely adverse impact on patients
or clients in the quality, availability and price of
health care services;

 
(4) The extent of any likely adverse impact on the
access of persons enrolled in in-state educational
programs for health professions to existing or future
clinical training programs; and

 
(5) The availability of arrangements that are less
restrictive to competition and achieve the same
benefits or a more favorable balance of benefits over
disadvantages attributable to any reduction in
competition likely to result from the agreement.

 
C. In evaluating a cooperative agreement under the standards
in paragraphs A and B, the department shall consider the
extent to which any likely disadvantages may be ameliorated
by any reasonably enforceable conditions under subparagraph
(1) and the extent to which the likely benefits or favorable
balance of benefits over disadvantages may be enhanced by
any reasonably enforceable conditions under subparagraph
(2).__Reasonably enforceable conditions are those conditions
that the department determines are subject to future
measurement or evaluation in order to assess compliance with
those conditions.

 
(1) In a certificate issued under this subsection, the
department may include conditions reasonably necessary
to ameliorate any likely disadvantages of the type
specified in paragraph B.

 
(2) In a certificate issued under this subsection, the
department may include additional conditions, if
proposed by the applicants, designed to achieve public
benefits, which may include but are not limited to the
benefits listed in paragraph A.

 
D.__In a certificate of public advantage issued under this
subsection, the department may include a condition requiring
the certificate holders to submit fees sufficient to fund
expenses for consultants__or experts__necessary for the
continuing supervision required under section 1845. These
fees must be paid at the time of any review conducted under
section 1845. The total amount charged to the certificate
holders for continuing supervision may not exceed $5,000 for
mergers involving hospitals with 50 or more beds and $2,500
for all other cooperative agreements.


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