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This interactive map tracks state healthcare transaction laws across the country, including broad-scope pre-merger notification requirements – commonly known as “Mini-HSRs” – and healthcare-specific transaction review regimes. States are coded to reflect where legislation has been enacted (broad-scope mini-HSR, healthcare transaction law, or both), where legislation is pending, or where no current or pending applicable law exists. Our team updates this map regularly as the legislative landscape continues to evolve. Click each state for more information, and contact our healthcare and antitrust teams with questions about your transaction.
Enacted healthcare-specific transaction law
Enacted broad-scope mini-HSR regime
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No current, pending, or proposed transaction law
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Healthcare Transaction Notice
Type
Parties to mergers, acquisitions, or contracting affiliations between hospitals, hospital systems, and provider organizations (physician organizations, physician-hospital organizations, independent practice associations, provider networks, and accountable care organizations representing seven or more providers).
Applies only if the parties lacked prior common ownership or contracting affiliation.
Effective June 11, 2026, H.B. 2548 expands coverage to any change of ownership or control of a hospital, hospital system, or provider organization, and significant asset transactions, including real property sale-leasebacks.
Who is Covered
Out-of-state entities: notice required only if generating $10 million or more in Washington patient revenue. No revenue or asset threshold for in-state entities; the obligation turns on transaction type.
Thresholds
Where to File
Wash. Rev. Code Ch. 19.390
SB 5122.SL (HSR copy requirement, effective July 27, 2025)
H.B. 2548 (expanded transaction types, effective June 11, 2026)
Sources
Written notice to the Attorney General (“AG”) at least 60 days pre-closing. AG must request additional information within 30 days. The statute does not preclude later AG investigation or antitrust enforcement.
Effective July 27, 2025 (SB 5122.SL), providers and provider organizations must also file a copy of any federal HSR filing with the AG contemporaneously, which satisfies the notice requirement under RCW 19.390.040.
Timing
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Enacted
Status
Healthcare Transaction Notice and Review
Type
Health care entities in material change transactions meeting revenue/asset thresholds below (includes providers, payers, integrated health systems).
Effective January 1, 2026, AB-1415 extends coverage to private equity groups, hedge funds, and management services organizations.
Who is Covered
Filing required if any party has:
Annual California revenue or assets of at least $25 million; or
Annual California revenue or assets of at least $10 million, where the counterparty meets the $25 million threshold; or
A location in a designated primary care health professional shortage area in California.
A material change transaction includes one involving:
Fair market value of $25 million or more;
A likely increase in annual California revenue of $10 million or more, or 20% or more; or
A transfer of 25% or more of total California assets, or a transfer of control.
Thresholds
90-day pre-closing notice required.
Following notice, OHCA either:
Waives a Cost and Market Impact Review (“CMIR”) within 45 days; or
Notifies parties of its decision to conduct a CMIR within 60 days.
CMIR must be completed within 90 days of that decision, extendable by 30 days.
Total review may exceed eight months.
Timing
https://ohca-mcn.hcai.ca.gov/
Where to File
Cal. Health & Saf. Code Section 127500 et seq.
22 CCR 97431 et seq.
AB-1415; Cal. Health & Saf. Code Sections 127500.2, 127501, 127501.5, 127507
Sources
California
Premerger Notification Law
Material Healthcare Transactions
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Enacted
Status
Healthcare Transaction Notice
Type
Attorney General (“AG”) Notice (Nev. Rev. Stat. Section 598A.290 et seq.):
Any person doing business in Nevada party to a transaction resulting in a material change to a group practice or health carrier that would cause it to provide 50% or more of any health care or health carrier service in a geographic market. Excludes transactions between commonly owned entities or those with a pre-existing contracting relationship established before October 1, 2021.
DHHS Notice (Nev. Rev. Stat. Section 439A.126):
Changes of ownership of a hospital or physician group practice.
Who is Covered
AG Notice: Reportable if the transaction would cause a group practice or health carrier to provide 50% or more of any service in a geographic market. Material changes include mergers, consolidations, affiliations, acquisitions of all or substantially all assets or equity, employment of all or substantially all practitioners, and acquisitions of insolvent group practices.
Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”) Notice: Triggered by a change of ownership of a hospital or physician group practice.
Thresholds
AG Notice: At least 30 days pre-closing. If a Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) filing involves Nevada group practice or health carrier assets, simultaneous AG submission satisfies this requirement.
DHHS Notice: Within 60 days post-closing.
Timing
AG Notice: Nevada Attorney General.
DHHS Notice: Nevada DHHS.
Where to File
Nev. Rev. Stat. Section 598A.290 et seq. (AG notice; definitions at Sections 598A.300–598A.380; penalty at Section 598A.430)
Nev. Rev. Stat. Section 439A.126 (DHHS notice)
Sources
Nevada
Premerger Notification Law
Material Healthcare Transactions
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Enacted
Status
Healthcare Transaction Notice and Review
Type
Health care entities in material change transactions, including: licensed or certified health professionals; hospitals and hospital systems; carriers offering Oregon health benefit plans; Medicare Advantage plans; coordinated care organizations; prepaid managed care organizations; and any entity primarily providing health care items or services, or a parent or closely related entity. Long-term care facilities and those licensed under ORS 443.400-443.455 are excluded.
Who is Covered
Material change transaction: at least one party averaged $25 million or more in revenue over the prior three fiscal years, and another averaged at least $10 million (or, for a new entity, is projected to reach $10 million in its first full year).
For out-of-state entities, also met if the transaction may increase Oregon health care prices or limit access to services.
Excluded: clinical affiliations for trials or graduate medical education; medical services contracts or extensions; affiliations necessary for value-based payment that do not affect corporate leadership, governance, or control; and transactions involving federally qualified health centers unless the entity would lose that status.
Thresholds
Notice to the Oregon Health Authority (“OHA”) at least 180 days pre-closing. Upon receipt of a complete notice, OHA conducts a 30-day preliminary review for potential negative impact on affordable health care access. Then:
OHA (or the Department of Consumer and Business Services (“DCBS”) for domestic health insurer transactions) approves, or approves with conditions, if the transaction is urgently necessary for solvency and in consumers’ interest, or lacks potential to negatively impact affordable health care access; or
OHA conducts a comprehensive review, completed within 180 days of notice receipt (extendable by agreement).
OHA monitors condition compliance and analyzes cost and market impact at one, two, and five years post-closing.
Timing
Where to File
Or. Rev. Stat. Section 415.500 et seq.
Or. Admin. R. 409-070-0000 through -0085
Or. Rev. Stat. Section 415.900 (civil penalties)
Or. Rev. Stat. Section 415.512 (fees)
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Oregon
https://ag.nv.gov/Hot_Topics/HSR_and_30-Day_Advanced_Notice_for_Health_Care_and_Health_Carrier_Transactions/
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https://www.oregon.gov/oha/HPA/HP/Pages/HCMO-How-To-Submit.aspx
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https://www.atg.wa.gov/premerger-notifications
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Healthcare Transaction Law
Mini HSR Law
Enacted; applies to covered premerger notifications filed on or after January 1, 2027.
Status
Antitrust Premerger Notice (Mini HSR)
Type
Parties to any transaction that is HSR-reportable at the federal level, where the filing party: (a) has its principal place of business in California; or (b) the filer, or an entity it directly or indirectly controls, had annual net sales in California of the goods or services involved in the transaction of at least 20% of the HSR size-of-transaction filing threshold.
Who is Covered
The underlying transaction must be HSR-reportable at the federal level.
The California-specific nexus is met if: the filer has its principal place of business in California; or the filer had annual net sales in California of at least 20% of the HSR size-of-transaction threshold (based on 2026 filing thresholds, at least $26.78 million).
Thresholds
Filing must be submitted contemporaneously with the federal HSR filing — at the latest, within one business day of the federal filing.
Timing
California Attorney General. (portal TBD)
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Where to File
SB 25 (signed February 10, 2026; effective January 1, 2027)
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code Section 16900 et seq. (as enacted by SB 25)
Sources
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Healthcare Transaction Law
Mini HSR Law
Healthcare Transaction Law
Healthcare Transaction Law
Mini HSR Law
Mini HSR Law
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Enacted
Status
Antitrust Premerger Notice (Mini HSR)
Type
Parties to any transaction that is HSR-reportable at the federal level with a sufficient connection to Washington, defined as any of the following: (a) the party has its principal place of business in Washington; (b) the party, or entities it controls, generated annual net sales in Washington in the prior year from the goods or services involved in the transaction of at least 20% of the minimum HSR filing threshold; or (c) the party is a provider or provider organization, as defined in RCW 19.390.020, conducting business in Washington (broadly defined to include many healthcare professionals and organizations).
Who is Covered
The underlying transaction must be HSR-reportable at the federal level.
The Washington-specific nexus threshold is met if: (a) principal place of business is in Washington; (b) annual net sales in Washington related to the transaction are at least 20% of the minimum HSR filing threshold ; or (c) or is a covered provider or provider organization conducting business in Washington.
Thresholds
Filing must be made concurrently with the federal HSR submission to the FTC and DOJ.
Timing
https://www.atg.wa.gov/premerger-notifications
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Where to File
Sources
Wash. Rev. Code Ch. 19.420 (2025)
ii. S.B. 5122 (enacted April 4, 2025; effective July 27, 2025)
Premerger Notification Law
Material Healthcare Transactions
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Enacted
Status
Healthcare Transaction Notice and Review
Type
Parties: Health care providers and provider organizations with at least $25 million in revenue involved in a material change transaction (as defined in 958 CMR 7.00 and the enabling statute).
Regulators: Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC)/Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General (MAAG)
Who is Covered
Trigger: Submission is required when a transaction or event meets the definition of a “material change” under 958 CMR 7.00.
Revenue: A filing is only required if a $25 million revenue threshold is met.
Thresholds
Advance notice required: A Notice of Material Change must be provided at least 60 days pre-closing, consistent with the regulation’s timing requirements.
Review: HPC has 30 days to review the Notice. It can then either start a cost and market impact review (CMIR) or decline to issue a CMIR. If HPC initiates a CMIR, it could delay closing up to 215 days from the date of the Notice.
Timing
Filing agency: Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC).
Method: See the filing instructions in the Notice form available at https://masshpc.gov/sites/default/files/MCN%20Form_2026.pdf
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Where to File
958 CMR 7.00, Notices of Material Change and Cost and Market Impact Reviews (Massachusetts Health Policy Commission), available at: https://www.mass.gov/doc/958-cmr-7-notices-of-material-change-and-cost-and-market-impact-reviews/download
Material Change Notices and Cost and Market Impact Reviews, Massachusetts Health Policy Commission, available at https://masshpc.gov/moat/mcn-cmir
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Massachusetts
Premerger Notification Law
Material Healthcare Transactions
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Enacted
Status
Healthcare Transaction Notice and Review
Type
Who is Covered
Medical Groups Trigger: Notice is required when a transaction constitutes a material change as defined in 110-RICR-30-00-5.
Hospitals Trigger: Must seek approval for any transaction concerning the sale or transfer of 20% or more of any ownership interests or assets of a hospital.
Thresholds
Medical Groups – advance notice required: Notice must be provided at least 60 days pre-closing to the RIAG.
Medical Groups – review: The Rhode Island rule does not empower the RIAG to delay the proposed transaction beyond the means already available to the office—namely its ability to bring actions to stop an anticompetitive behavior. The rule itself is a notice requirement only.
Hospitals – notice and review: Notice must be provided to both the RIAG and RIDOH before closing a transaction and the transaction cannot close until the state has approved the transaction. Review and approval can take several months.
Timing
Filing agency: RIAG/RIDOH.
Medical Groups Method: See the filing instructions in the Notice form available at https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi4ppm68sqUAxVx3skDHbrnFBoQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Friag.ri.gov%2Fmedia%2F8211%2Fdownload&usg=AOvVaw2XnPuRzQq3q1n-xZX0wAO0&opi=89978449
Hospitals Method: See information available at https://health.ri.gov/hospitals/hospital-conversions-mergers-program
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Where to File
958 CMR 7.00, Notices of Material Change and Cost and Market Impact Reviews (Massachusetts Health Policy Commission), available at: https://www.mass.gov/doc/958-cmr-7-notices-of-material-change-and-cost-and-market-impact-reviews/download
Material Change Notices and Cost and Market Impact Reviews, Massachusetts Health Policy Commission, available at https://masshpc.gov/moat/mcn-cmir
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island has two distinct healthcare transaction notification regimes—one that applies to medical groups and another that applies to hospitals.
Medical Groups: A recently enacted rule applies to Rhode Island based medical-practice groups undertaking any merger, consolidation, or acquisition that would result in (1) ownership or control by a significant equity investor (defined to include private equity companies), (2) a group of eight (8) or more physicians, physician assistants, and/or nurse practitioners, or (3) any formation of a management services organization or similar entity created to administer contracts with health insurance carriers or third-party administrators on behalf of a medical-practice group. See 110-RICR-30-00-5.
Hospitals: Certain transfers in ownership, assets, membership interests, authority or control of a hospital in Rhode Island require approval by both the Department of Health (RIDOH) and the Rhode Island Department of the Attorney General (RIAG) under the authority of the Hospital Conversions Act (Chapter 23-17.14).
Regulators: RIAG; RIDOH
Premerger Notification Law
Material Healthcare Transactions
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Status
Healthcare Transaction Notice
Type
Parties: Vermont’s healthcare transaction notice law applies to hospitals and medical practices with one or more physicians that are acquiring medical practices. See 18 V.S.A. § 9405(c).
Regulators: Vermont Attorney General (VTAG)
Who is Covered
Trigger: Notice is required when there is to be any purchase or transfer through which a Vermont hospital or medical practice will take over ownership or control of a medical practice
Thresholds
Advance notice required: A notice of the proposed acquisition must be provided at least 90 days pre-closing to the VTAG. The Vermont regime does not impose any waiting period—it only requires notice.
Timing
Filing agency: VTAG.
Method: Contact and submit a notice to the VTAG.
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Where to File
18 V.S.A. § 9405(c), available at: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/18/221/09405c
Sources
Vermont
Enacted
Status
General Pre-Merger Notification (“Mini-HSR”)
Type
Any person filing a Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) notification with the FTC and DOJ that:
has its principal place of business in Colorado; or
directly or indirectly has annual Colorado net sales of the goods or services involved in the transaction equal to at least 20% of the federal HSR filing threshold.
Who is Covered
Triggered only if an HSR filing is required federally.
Colorado nexus exists if:
the filing party’s principal place of business is in Colorado; or
annual Colorado sales of the goods or services involved in the transaction equal at least 20% of the HSR size-of-transaction threshold (approximately $25.28 million using the 2025 HSR threshold of $126.4 million).
Thresholds
Filing must be made contemporaneously with the federal HSR filing.
No separate Colorado waiting period is imposed. Parties remain subject only to applicable federal HSR waiting periods.
Timing
Colorado Attorney General.
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Where to File
SB25-126, Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act.
Sources
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Enacted; Hospital-focused. Broader healthcare transaction review legislation has been proposed.
Status
Hospital/healthcare entity transaction notice.
Type
Colorado “health care entities” under the Colorado Hospital Transfer Act, generally licensed/certified hospitals and similar facilities, excluding entities wholly owned/operated by a governmental unit or agency. This can include hospitals, freestanding emergency departments, ambulatory surgical centers, psychiatric hospitals, nursing care facilities, hospice, assisted living residences, dialysis clinics, community clinics, rehabilitation hospitals, home care agencies, and similar facilities.
Who is Covered
No revenue threshold.
Notice applies to covered transactions including: sale, transfer, lease, exchange, or disposition of 50% or more of the fair market value of the assets of a health care entity; a series of transactions over five years resulting in transfer of 50% or more of assets; or sale, transfer, or disposition of control of a parent/holding/company controlling a health care entity.
Thresholds
60 days pre-closing notice to the Colorado Attorney General.
For nonprofit-to-for-profit transactions, the AG may extend review by 90 days for good cause.
Timing
Colorado Attorney General.
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Where to File
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-19-101 et seq.
SB25-198 was introduced to broaden notice/review for “medical care entities” but failed.
Sources
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Colorado
Healthcare Transaction Law
Healthcare Transaction Law
Mini HSR Law
Mini HSR Law
The statute gives the AG review time but does not create a separate transaction-blocking approval regime beyond existing Colorado antitrust authority.
AG may seek TRO/injunction for noncompliance.
Review / Enforcement
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Civil penalties of up to $10,000 per day for failure to comply.
Filings are confidential and exempt from public disclosure, subject to statutory exceptions.
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Enforcement
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Enacted; strengthened July 1, 2025.
Status
Healthcare transaction notice, review, and approval.
Type
Hospitals licensed by the New Mexico Health Care Authority, excluding state university teaching hospitals and state-owned special hospitals.
Certain health care provider organizations, including organizations delivering or managing health care services, physician organizations, PHOs, IPAs, provider networks, ACOs, DSOs, and similar organizations that contract with insurers.
Who is Covered
Thresholds
Timing
HCA may approve, approve with conditions, or disapprove.
HCA considers access, quality, cost, market share, barriers to entry, patient costs, networks, health outcomes, and workforce effects.
Covered transactions cannot be effectuated without written determination that no review is needed or written approval. Fines may be up to $5,000 per violation, or $10,000 for willful/intentional violations.
Review / Enforcement
New Mexico Health Care Authority, with materials shared with the Office of Superintendent of Insurance and Attorney General.
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Where to File
NMSA 1978 §§ 24A-9-1 through 24A-9-13.
HB 586 / Health Care Consolidation Oversight Act amendments.
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Sources
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New Mexico
No revenue threshold.
Covered “transactions” include:
merger of a New Mexico hospital with another hospital or person controlling a hospital;
acquisition of one or more hospitals or a person controlling a New Mexico hospital;
affiliation, contract, or agreement resulting in change of hospital control, including with an MSO or insurer;
formation of a new entity/MSO resulting in change of control of an existing New Mexico hospital;
sale, mortgage, purchase, lease, new affiliation, or other agreement changing control of a hospital or hospital real estate; and
acquisition of one or more independent health care practices by a provider organization owned or affiliated with a health insurer.
Control is presumed at 15% or more voting power/proxies, rebuttable.
Notice is submitted before closing; the statute does not set a fixed “X days pre-closing” filing deadline, but parties cannot close without required written determination/approval.
HCA has 30 days to determine completeness or request missing information.
HCA review must be completed within 120 days of complete notice, unless parties agree to extend.
Enacted.
Status
Healthcare transaction notice, reporting, review, and antitrust/public-interest oversight.
Type
Health care entities including hospitals, hospital systems, captive professional entities, medical foundations, health care provider group practices, entities organized or controlled by those entities, and entities that own or control them.
Who is Covered
Large transactions: Minn. Stat. § 145D.01 applies where a health care entity has average annual revenue of at least $80 million, or the resulting entity is projected to have at least $80 million in average annual revenue.
Smaller reportable transactions: Minn. Stat. § 145D.02 applies where the relevant entity has average annual revenue between $10 million and $80 million, or the resulting entity is projected to fall in that range.
Thresholds
Large transactions: 60 days pre-closing notice to the Attorney General and Commissioner of Health. AG may extend the waiting period by up to 90 additional days.
$10M–$80M transactions: report to MDH 30 days pre-closing, or within 10 business days after parties first reasonably anticipate entering into the transaction if closing is less than 30 days away.
Timing
Minnesota prohibits transactions that substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly or monopsony.
AG or Commissioner may hold public forums and may bring an action to compel compliance.
Review / Enforcement
Large transactions: Minnesota Attorney General and Minnesota Department of Health.
$10M–$80M transactions: Minnesota Department of Health; MDH may share data with the AG.
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Where to File
Minn. Stat. §§ 145D.01, 145D.02.
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Minnesota
A transaction is a single action or series within five years involving Minnesota or a Minnesota-formed/licensed health care entity, including: mergers/exchanges; transfer/lease/sale of 40% or more assets; security interest in 40% or more assets; transfer of 40% or more ownership; governance changes transferring control; creation of a new health care entity; revenue-sharing of 40% or more; 40%+ membership changes in nonprofit entities; or other transfer/acquisition of control.
Exclusions include common-control transactions, certain secured loans, clinical affiliations solely for trials/GME, mere hiring, clinical-service contracts, and certain transactions solely involving nursing homes/assisted living/home care and similar entities.
Covered Transactions
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Enacted effective January 1, 2024; current statutory text sunsets January 1, 2027 unless amended.
Status
Healthcare transaction notice to Attorney General.
Type
Health care facilities and provider organizations that are parties to covered transactions. All parties must provide notice.
“Provider organization” means an organization in health care delivery or management representing 20 or more providers in contracting with carriers/TPAs, including physician organizations, PHOs, IPAs, provider networks, and ACOs.
Covered Illinois/out-of-state transactions require notice if the out-of-state entity generates $10 million or more in annual revenue from Illinois residents.
Who is Covered
No general revenue threshold for Illinois entities.
A covered transaction is any merger, acquisition, or contracting affiliation between two or more health care facilities or provider organizations not previously under common ownership or contracting affiliation.
“Contracting affiliation” covers arrangements allowing entities to negotiate jointly, or one entity to negotiate for another, with carriers/TPAs over professional medical service rates; common-ownership arrangements are excluded.
Thresholds
Generally 30 days pre-closing/effective date.
If HSR-reportable, provide a copy of the HSR filing to the Illinois AG at the same time it is filed federally.
If a Health Facilities and Services Review Board change-of-ownership application is required, that filing satisfies the notice requirement, and HFSRB notifies the AG.
Timing
Illinois Attorney General Antitrust Bureau.
For HFSRB-triggering facility transactions, file through the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board process.
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Where to File
740 ILCS 10/7.2a, added by Public Act 103-0526.
Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act, where CHOW review applies.
Sources
Illinois
AG may request additional information within 30 days of notice; if requested, the transaction may not proceed until 30 days after substantial compliance. Later requests do not further delay closing.
Penalty up to $500 per day; AG may seek TRO/injunction in Sangamon or Cook County. A 10-day cure opportunity exists before enforcement, but not on/after the earlier of proposed or actual closing.
Review / Enforcement
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Enacted
Status
Healthcare
Type
(1) Any organization or business that provides diagnostic, medical, surgical, dental treatment, or rehabilitative care; (2) An insurer that issues a policy of accident and sickness insurance; (3) A health maintenance organization; (4) A pharmacy benefit manager; (5) An administrator (6) A private equity partnership, regardless of where the private equity partnership is located, seeking to enter into a merger or acquisition with one of the aforementioned entities.
Who is Covered
Mergers or acquisitions with a value of at least $10,000,000
Thresholds
90 days' pre-closing; The Indiana Attorney General is required to review the parties’ submission within 45 days from receiving the notice and may analyze in writing any antitrust concerns regarding the transaction, which must be provided to the parties. The Indiana Attorney General may issue a civil investigate demand to the submitting parties for additional information.
Timing
Office of the Indiana Attorney General
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Where to File
IC 25-1-8.5
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Indiana
Premerger Notification Law
Material Healthcare Transactions
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Enacted
Status
Healthcare
Type
(1) physician practice, group, or management services organization or similar entity providing all or substantially all of the administrative or management services under contract with one or more physician practices; (2) provider-sponsored organization; (3) health insurance plan; (4) or any other kind of health care facility, organization or plan providing health care services in New York, including dental practices, clinical laboratories, pharmacies, wholesale pharmacies (including secondary wholesalers), independent practice associations, and accountable care organization.
Who is Covered
A single transaction or series of transactions (during rolling 12-month period) that will result in a health care entity increasing its total gross in-state revenue by $25 million or more.
Thresholds
30-day pre-closing notice required
Timing
NYS Department of Health; Notices of material transactions must be reported electronically using the Material Transaction Reporting Form.
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Where to File
Article 45-A; Public Health Law Article 45-A, Material Transactions Frequently Asked Questions
Sources
New York
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Enacted
Status
Type
(1) Hospitals; (2) Hospital systems; (3) Group practices with two or more physicians licensed in Connecticut; and (4) Other health care providers licensed by Connecticut.
Who is Covered
Thresholds
Concurrent with HSR filing or 30 days pre-closing notice
Timing
Connecticut Attorney General
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Where to File
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-486(i)
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Connecticut
Healthcare
Transactions, including mergers, consolidations, affiliations, acquisitions, employment of all or substantially all physicians, of a group practice including at least two Connecticut licensed physicians with one of the following entities:
Another group practice, resulting in a group practice with 8 or more physicians; or
A hospital, hospital system, captive professional entity, medical foundation or other entity organized by, controlled by or otherwise affiliated with such hospital or hospital system.
Transactions in which one party conducting business in Connecticut is a hospital, hospital system, or other health care provider and for which the parties are required to make a filing under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act.
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Premerger Notification Law
Material Healthcare Transactions
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Proposed (2026). SB 3175 introduced January 28, 2026; referred to various committees February 2, 2026.
Status
Healthcare transaction notice, review, and — for certain vertical transactions — legislative approval.
Type
"Health care entity," defined broadly to include any hospital, hospital system, health insurer, health maintenance organization, physician organization, provider group, ambulatory surgical center, or other entity licensed or authorized to provide or finance health care services in the State.
Who is Covered
No dollar or revenue threshold for the base notice obligation; any "material health care transaction" triggers notice.
"Material health care transaction" includes a merger, acquisition, affiliation, joint venture, consolidation, asset transfer, or other arrangement resulting in a change of control, governance, or material influence over a health care entity.
Additional legislative-approval trigger for "vertical consolidations" where the combined entity would control 25% or more of a relevant health care service market or insurance market in the State or any county, and the transaction is projected to produce specified pricing, premium, or public-expenditure effects.
Thresholds
Written notice to the state agency at least 180 days before the proposed effective date of the transaction.
Timing
State Health Planning and Development Agency (SHPDA), Hawaii Department of Health.
https://ag.nv.gov/Hot_Topics/HSR_and_30-Day_Advanced_Notice_for_Health_Care_and_Health_Carrier_Transactions/
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Where to File
S.B. 3175 (Haw. 2026 Reg. Sess.) — Relating to Health Care Market Oversight.
https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2026/bills/SB3175_.HTM
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Hawaii
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Premerger Notification Law
Material Healthcare Transactions
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Proposed (2026). H 853 introduced and referred to the House Health & Welfare Committee on March 10, 2026.
Status
Hospital control-transfer notice, review, and approval (limited to certain nonprofit hospitals).
Type
"Covered hospital," defined as an Idaho hospital that is organized as a nonprofit corporation and has received public hospital-district assets under Idaho Code section 39-1359.
Who is Covered
No dollar threshold; the trigger is structural — a covered hospital entering into a "control transfer."
"Control transfer" includes any transaction or arrangement resulting in a change in majority voting power of the governing board, substitution of a parent or controlling entity, or the delegation of material governance authority through a management, affiliation, or similar agreement. The last clause is what extends the bill beyond outright sales to governance-shift arrangements.
Thresholds
Written notice to the Attorney General and the Department of Health and Welfare at least 90 days before the control transfer.
At least one public hearing in the county the hospital primarily serves, with no less than 30 days' public notice.
Timing
https://ag.nv.gov/Hot_Topics/HSR_and_30-Day_Advanced_Notice_for_Health_Care_and_Health_Carrier_Transactions/
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Idaho Attorney General and Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
Where to File
H. 853 (Idaho 2026 Reg. Sess.) — Hospitals; transfer of control of certain hospitals.
https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2026/legislation/H0853.pdf
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Premerger Notification Law
Material Healthcare Transactions
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Proposed (2026). SB 978 introduced April 30, 2026; in Senate Rules and Operations Committee as of June 9, 2026.
Status
Healthcare transaction notice, review, and legislative approval.
Type
“Hospital entities” i.e., hospitals and their affiliated organizations.
Who is Covered
Transactions, including sales of assets, leases, interests, or transfers of control, valued at $5 million or more.
Thresholds
The initial review period is 60 days, with potential extensions to 90 days, during which the transaction is prohibited from being finalized.
Timing
Provide the State Auditor, Attorney General, and State Treasurer with written notice of the proposed transaction.
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Where to File
SB 978 text available at https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S978v1.pdf.
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