Amends GS 131E-184 to exempt from certificate of need review the acquisition of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner by purchase, donation, lease, transfer, or comparable arrangement by any specialty or multispecialty professional corporation of physicians licensed to practice medicine if: (1) the magnetic resonance imaging scanner will be used only for the patients of that same physician practice or group and (2) the single specialty or multispecialty physician practice or group gives prior written notice to the Department of Health and Human Services, along with supporting documentation to demonstrate that it meets the exemption criteria. Effective October 1, 2021.