Newly available on the Source: our health policy research team compiled a user-friendly, downloadable Excel spreadsheet of all provider merger review authority for all 50 states, now on the Market Consolidation interactive key issue page. The detailed chart provides clickable citations of all statutes, regulations, and state authority for mergers, acquisitions, conversions, or changes in ownership of healthcare providers.

The comprehensive spreadsheet allows side-by-side comparisons of the level of legal authority for each state to receive notice of impending transactions, review those transactions, and approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove them. It is conveniently organized by each type of state entity:

• Attorney general notice, approval, and review criteria
• Court approval requirement and criteria
• State health agency notice, approval and review criteria
• Certificate of Need (CON) notice, approval, and review criteria

Click on each citation for a direct link to the statutory text and other detailed information as provided by the Database of State Laws Impacting Healthcare Cost and Quality (SLIHCQ). All laws and regulations are current as of July 2021.

Click here to download.

INSURANCE – Adds to existing law to provide requirements for health benefit plans covering contraception

INSURANCE – Adds to existing law to provide requirements for health benefit plans and student health benefit plans that cover prescription contraception.

VIRTUAL CARE ACCESS – Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to provide for virtual care access.

Naturopathic doctors, licensing/scope of practice:
OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING – Adds to existing law to provide for the licensing of naturopathic practitioners.

OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING – Amends existing law to provide for interstate telehealth access.

TELEHEALTH ACCESS – Amends existing law to provide for the prescribing of certain drugs via telehealth in compliance with federal law.

TELEHEALTH – Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the establishment of a provider-patient relationship using telehealth technologies.

OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING – Amends existing law to provide requirements for physician assistants who practice at certain facilities or practices or who own a medical practice.

MEDICAID – Amends existing law to provide for reimbursement for new in-state hospitals serving as Medicaid providers.