Stop Anti-Competitive Contracts in Healthcare
Anti-competitive contracts are used in healthcare by leveraging market dominance to limit competition, leading to higher prices and reduced patient choice.
Hospitals, health systems, and insurers use anticompetitive contracting terms to increase their bottom lines, driving up the cost of care. Anticompetitive contracting unnecessarily limits everything from doctors starting independent practices to insurers directing patients to more affordable options and hospitals from negotiating with insurers.
THE SOLUTION
States should ban or limit the use of anticompetitive contract terms and practices used by payers, providers, and other market participants.
WHY IT MATTERS
Patients deserve affordable healthcare, better health outcomes, and improved access to care.
Banning anti-competitive terms:
THE BOTTOM LINE:
States should prohibit burdensome contract restrictions that reduce the availability of physicians and other in-demand healthcare workers. And health systems and other providers should negotiate reimbursement contracts with insurers on a level playing field that puts patients first, not their bottom lines.
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