How States Watch Over Hospitals to Keep Costs Down

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Specific tactics include, but are not limited to, exercising approval authority over hospital mergers and acquisitions, restricting anti-competitive payer/provider contract provisions, regulating hospital prices, and creating health care affordability offices to track health care spending and propose policy solutions to unsustainable spending growth. 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