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Committee seeks 5% hospital spending reduction; members and stakeholders raise feasibility and antitrust concerns
Summary
Committee language asks the Agency of Human Services to facilitate proposals that reduce hospital spending by 5% in a hospital fiscal year; hospitals and committee members discussed feasibility, potential $200 million scale, and added supervision language intended to preserve state action immunity under antitrust law.
The House Health Care Committee added draft language directing the Agency of Human Services to facilitate collaboration among health care providers to identify opportunities to increase efficiency, improve quality, reduce prescription‑drug spending and reduce hospital spending "by not less than 5%" in a hospital fiscal year.
Stakeholders at the meeting said a 5% reduction in hospital spending in one year would be a very…
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