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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 238
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 1046
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.
AN ACT INCREASING OVERSIGHT OF MERGERS AND
ACQUISITIONS OF GROUP PRACTICES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That (1) subsection (h) of section 19a-486i of the general statutes be 1
amended to require every group practice, regardless of the number of 2
physicians, to file a written report concerning the group practice with 3
the Attorney General and Office of Health Strategy, (2) subdivision (12) 4
of subsection (a) of section 19a-639 of the general statutes be amended 5
to elimination the presumption in favor of approving the certificate of 6
need application for a transfer of ownership of a large group practice, 7
and (3) chapter 368z of the general statutes be amended to permit the 8
Office of Health Strategy to require a certificate of need for the 9
acquisition or merger of a group practice of any size, rather than only 10
large group practices of eight or more physicians. 11
Statement of Purpose:
To increase oversight of the mergers and acquisitions of group practices.