Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 1993
Establishes rural networks that provide specified services, open to all health care providers, to be funded by public funds. Provides that providers who are members of certified rural health networks who seek to consolidate services […]
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 1994
Permits the state attorney general to authorize cooperative agreements between health care providers by issuing a certificate of public advantage if the “likely benefits resulting from the agreements outweigh the disadvantages attributable to a reduction […]
Ind. Code §§ 16-21-15-1 through 16-21-15-11: Certificate of Public Advantage of Hospital Mergers – Indiana
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 2021
Provides that any hospital entering into a merger agreement with another hospital may submit an application to the state department for a certificate of public advantage to govern the merger agreement in the manner prescribed […]
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 1994
A health care provider may negotiate and enter into cooperative agreements with other health care providers in the state if the likely benefits resulting from the agreements outweigh any disadvantages attributable to a reduction in […]
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 1997
Statutes govern certificates of public advantage. Statutes allow health care facilities to enter into cooperative agreements or merge or consolidate with one or more health care facilities and parties to a cooperative agreement, merger, joint […]
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 2005
The Hospital and Health Care Provider Cooperation Act, supports cooperation among providers, provides for the issuance of certificates of public advantage, and provides an exemption from federal antitrust scrutiny (under the state action doctrine). The […]
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 2004
Provides cooperative agreements among rural hospitals would improve the availability and quality of health care for Mississippians in rural areas and enhance the likelihood that rural hospitals can remain open. A rural hospital and any […]
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 1993
Repealed per HB 489 (2019). The legislature finds that the goals of controlling health care costs and improving the quality of and access to health care will be significantly enhanced in some cases by cooperative […]
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 1993
Repealed per HB 489 (2019). (1) A health care facility may enter into a cooperative agreement with one or more health care facilities. A health care facility may also merge or consolidate in whole or […]
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 1993
Repealed per HB 489 (2019). Standards for issuing certificates of public advantage and provisions regarding the regulation of the certificates.
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 1995
Repealed per HB 489 (2019). For the purposes of Montana’s Certificates of Public Advantage program, the following definitions apply.
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 1993
Repealed per HB 489 (2019). The department shall revoke a certificate previously granted by it if the department determines that the cooperative agreement is not resulting in lower health care costs or greater access to […]
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 1995
Repealed per HB 489 (2019). If the department issues a certificate of public advantage, the facilities or physicians to whom the certificate has been issued shall submit a report to the department evaluating whether the […]
N.Y. Pub. Health Law §§ 2999-aa & 2999-bb: Improved Integration of Health Care and Financing – New York
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 2011
NY’s policy on collaborative agreements between health care providers is to: encourage those that improve quality, outcomes, efficiencies, and access. Such agreements require active oversight by an appropriate commissioner. If an agreement is anticompetitive under […]
Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 71-7701 through 71-7711: Health Care Facility-Provider Cooperation Act – Nebraska
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 1994
Provisions governing the application for a certificate or public advantage. Parties in the cooperative agreement are immune from antitrust suits if the basis of the complaint stems from conduct reasonably necessary and foreseeable to carry […]
Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 1992
Acting through their boards of directors or boards of trustees, a group of hospitals may conduct discussions or negotiations concerning the allocation of health care equipment or health care services. If the director of health […]
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