S.C. Code Ann. § 44-7-570. Monitoring and regulating agreements by the department: Health Care Cooperation Act – South Carolina
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1994
States that the department shall actively monitor and regulate the agreements approved.
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S.C. Code Ann. § 44-7-580. Maintaining on file all cooperative agreements which certificates of public advantage remain in effect: Health Care Cooperation Act – South Carolina
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1994
States that the department shall maintain on file all cooperative agreements for which certificates of public advantage remain in effect.
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S.C. Code Ann. § 44-7-590. Exemptions: Health Care Cooperation Act – South Carolina
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1994
States that nothing in this article exempts health care providers or purchasers from compliance with the provisions of Article 3 of this chapter concerning certificates of need.
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SB 125 – Colorado
Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
Concerning allowing certain public health-care entities to improve health-care efficiency through cooperation. The bill authorizes county public hospitals and affiliates and health service districts and affiliates authorized under certain statutory provisions, all of which are …
SB 1529 (see companion bill HB 3301) – Texas
Introduced: 2019 Status: Inactive / Dead
Relating to merger agreements among certain hospitals; imposing fees.
SB 2620 (see companion bill HB 2600) – Tennessee
Introduced: 2024 Status: In Process
As introduced, prohibits a hospital from negotiating or entering into anti-competitive agreements or engaging in activity that purports to look like anti-competitive conduct with other hospitals in this state; prohibits state funds or employees from …
SB 2895 (see companion bill HB 1216) – Mississippi
Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
An Act To Create The South Mississippi Regional Health Care Authority Act Of 2022; Expresses a policy to allow the regional health care authority to consolidate with other health care facilities and providers and to …
SB 298 – Indiana
Introduced: 2022 Status: Enacted
Certificates of public advantage. Defines “merger” and “merger agreement” for purposes of the certificate of public advantage (certificate) for certain hospital mergers. Requires the state department of health (state department) to actively supervise a merger. …
SB 298 – Colorado
Introduced: 2023 Status: Enacted
Concerning allowing certain public hospitals to improve access to health care through collaboration, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation. The bill permits a hospital that has fewer than 50 beds and is a county …
SB 416 – Indiana
Introduced: 2021 Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2021
Hospitals and certificates of public advantage. Establishes a certificate of public advantage (certificate) pertaining to mergers between hospitals located in counties that meet certain requirements to be issued by the state department of health (state …
SB 597 – West Virginia
Introduced: 2016 Status: Enacted
Exempts certain actions of the Health Care Authority from state and federal antitrust laws; sets forth intent to immunize cooperative agreements approved and subject to supervision by the Health Care Authority; establishes that a cooperative …
SB 743 – North Carolina
Introduced: 2023 Status: In Process
Creates the University of North Carolina Health Care System and provides that the Board of Directors may enter into cooperative agreements with any other entity for the provision of health care, including the acquisition, allocation, …
Tex. Health & Safety Code §§ 314.001 through 314.008: Cooperative Agreements Among Hospitals – Texas
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 1993
Allows hospitals to enter into cooperative agreements with other hospitals as long as those agreements do not involve any discussion of price fixing or predatory pricing. If the department, at any time, finds that the …
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Tex. Health & Safety Code §§ 314A.001 through 314A.005: Merger Agreements Among Certain Hospitals– General Provisions – Texas
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2019
General provision subchapter of Merger Agreements Among Certain Hospitals Chapter, including definitions, applicability, legislative findings and purpose; grant of antitrust immunity, designation of supervising state agency, and rulemaking.
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Tex. Health & Safety Code §§ 314A.051 through 314A.059: Merger Agreements Among Certain Hospitals– Certificate of Public Advantage – Texas
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2019
Two or more hospitals may negotiate and enter into a merger agreement, subject to approval by the designated agency as provided by this subchapter. No merger agreement shall receive immunity under this chapter unless the …
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Tex. Health & Safety Code §§ 314A.101 through 314A.105: Merger Agreements Among Certain Hospitals– Supervision of Merged – Texas
Status: Enacted Year Enacted: 2019
The designated agency shall supervise in the manner provided by this subchapter each hospital operating under a certificate of public advantage issued under this chapter to ensure that the immunized conduct of a merged entity …
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