Health Care Cost Reduction Fund

Current understanding

HB6117 would create a new act establishing a Health Care Cost Reduction Fund in Michigan, presumably to receive and disburse monies connected to hospital cost oversight. The bill is tie-barred to HB6116 (Hospital Cost Review Board Act) and HB6118, indicating the fund is part of a coordinated hospital cost-regulation package. As introduced, the fund’s revenue sources, permitted expenditures, and administering agency remain to be analyzed.

Evidence log

• 2026-06-18 — Health facilities: other; certain acquisitions and mergers involving a health facility or agency; regulate. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6116’26, HB 6117’26: cross-connection with health-facility-acquisitions-mergers-act: Tie-barred companions within the same three-bill hospital regulation package; the merger review act and the cost reduction fund would take effect together with the Hospital Cost Review Board Act. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-18 — Health facilities: hospitals; health care cost reduction fund; create. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6116’26, HB 6118’26: cross-connection with hospital-cost-review-board-act: HB6117 (fund) and HB6116 (cost review board) are tie-barred parts of the same hospital cost-regulation package. (novelty: 3)

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