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HCA summarizes 2026 session: market oversight, coverage assessments and rural hospital reimbursement among action items
Summary
HCA briefed the board on 2026 legislative actions and proposals that affect the board's work, including bills on claims payment timelines, expanded market transaction review, coverage assessments for behavioral health and abortion-service funding, and targeted rural hospital reimbursement changes.
Evan Klein, special assistant for legislative and policy affairs at HCA, briefed the Cost Transparency Board on highlights from the 2026 legislative session and how enacted and contemplated measures intersect with the board's priorities.
Klein said the brief 60-day session was shaped by state budget pressures and federal-level impacts from HR 1. He summarized several items of direct relevance: an HCA agency-request bill (House Bill 2254) passed; timely claims-payment standards were addressed in…
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