The State Database
State laws and regulations governing healthcare can vary greatly and have the potential to impede or facilitate improvements to the functioning of the healthcare marketplace. The Source tracks state activities impacting healthcare price and competition in both legislation and litigation in a searchable database to help stakeholders at the state level understand their legal and regulatory environment as they make efforts to improve access, quality, and efficiency, and reduce costs in healthcare.
LEGISLATION: The Database of State Laws Impacting Healthcare Cost and Quality (SLIHCQ), created by The Source on Healthcare Price & Competition and Catalyst for Payment Reform with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, catalogues state legislation to contain healthcare costs and improve quality in a searchable and sortable, public database. These laws impact price transparency, provider market power, provider payment, provider networks, and benefit design. The database also includes pharmaceutical legislation beginning in the 2017-2018 legislative session, and continues to populate newly enacted pharmaceutical legislation as part of the database.
*Note: Current legislative session bill updates are ongoing. Check back weekly for updates.
LITIGATION: The Source tracks major litigation and antitrust enforcement action by federal entities (FTC or DOJ), state attorney generals, and private parties in the main provider and insurer markets, particularly legal challenges of healthcare consolidation and anticompetitive contract provisions. Additionally, the database contains major pharmaceutical cases including legislation challenges and significant appellate cases.
USER GUIDE: The Database utilizes key issue tags for all legislation and litigation records as a guide for users to quickly identify important topics (see User Guide for more info). Search the Database for specific bills, statutes or cases by key issue category, keyword, and/or jurisdiction. *Multiple filter/selections enabled.
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District Court: District Court Docket: Status: Decided
In 2011, a merger was proposed between The University of Louisville Hospital, Catholic Health Initiatives, Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services, Inc., Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s […]
Federal Trade Commission and Colorado v. United Health and DaVita Medical Group
District Court: District Court, County of El Paso, State of Colorado District Court Docket: Status: Decided
In December 2017, UnitedHealth Group announced its subsidiary, Optum, would acquire DaVita Medical Group. This would have primarily affected facilities in Nevada and Colorado. The […]
Department of Justice, Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York, v. United Health and Amedisys
District Court: United States District Court for the District of Maryland District Court Docket: Status: Pending
The Justice Department, together with the Attorneys General of Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block UnitedHealth Group […]
Novant Health, Inc. and Community Health Systems, Inc., In the Matter of
District Court: District Court Docket: Status: Pending
On January 25th, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had authorized a suit to block Novant Health’s proposed acquisition of two hospitals […]
Ross v. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
District Court: US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania District Court Docket: Status: Pending
On January 18, 2024, Victoria Ross, a former University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) nurse, filed an antitrust class action suit in the US District […]
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