Health Facility Acquisitions & Mergers Regulation Act

Current understanding

HB 6118 would create a new Michigan act regulating certain acquisitions and mergers involving health facilities or agencies. The bill is tie-barred to HB 6116 (Hospital Cost Review Board Act) and HB 6117 (Health Care Cost Reduction Fund), suggesting it is part of a broader package addressing hospital market concentration, cost oversight, and financing. As introduced, specifics on transaction thresholds, review authority, approval standards, and enforcement 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 hospital-cost-review-board-act: Both are part of the same tie-barred package (HB 6116/6117/6118) creating a coordinated framework for state oversight of hospital economics — cost review on one side, merger/acquisition review on the other. (novelty: 3)

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