Keystone Planning Group, LLC (Keystone) is one of the leading consulting firms in North Carolina for assisting healthcare organizations with the Certificate of Need (CON) regulatory process. The Keystone team provides a full-service (or turn-key) consultation, including strategy, development, and production of the application in the State-prescribed format.

Since 1997, we’ve submitted over 200 CON applications exceeding $1 billion in project costs. Our high success rate is attributed to knowledge of the industry and to skill in positioning clients to satisfy all regulatory requirements. Our clients come from a wide cross-section of the healthcare provider spectrum. They represent hospitals, physicians, diagnostic imaging centers, long-term care facilities, home health care providers, hospice organizations, and dialysis centers, to name a few. We’ve also been involved in precedent-setting CON applications. For example, Keystone crafted the strategy and developed the CON application that brought the first Cyber Knife to North Carolina.

Our clients trust us to navigate them through the complex regulatory planning process. Our attention to detail and breadth of experience ensure that each product is designed specifically to meet individualized needs of the client while, of course, attaining the fundamental objective – CON approval.