Healthy Competition for Better Care Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsor
- 1
- Latest action
- Mar 9, 2026
What it does
The Healthy Competition for Better Care Act would ban anticompetitive terms in facility and insurance contracts that restrict health plans from directing patients to higher-quality, lower-cost providers or offering incentives for specific provider use. It applies to group health plans and health insurance issuers under the Public Health Service Act, ERISA, and the Internal Revenue Code, with exceptions for certain value-based network designs like HMOs and accountable care organizations. The bill includes a state grandfathering option allowing certain pre-2021 agreements to remain exempt for up to 10 years if deemed unlikely to lessen competition, and requires federal agencies to issue…
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Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
Floor (Not started)
Law (Not started)
What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.