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
Key claim: HB 6118 would create a new Michigan act regulating certain acquisitions and mergers involving health facilities or agencies, tied to companion bills HB 6116 and HB 6117.
Abstract
(HB6118 · 103rd Legislature) 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 Latest action (2026-06-23): Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/18/2026
Why this matters
Michigan currently has limited state-level review of health facility consolidation beyond federal antitrust and certificate-of-need processes. HB 6118, packaged with a hospital cost review board and a cost reduction fund, would give the state a direct role in scrutinizing mergers and acquisitions of hospitals and other health agencies — a lever aimed at addressing concentration-driven price effects in the safety-net and commercial health system.