{"id":251,"date":"2026-03-13T10:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/?p=251"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:24:24","slug":"healthcare-consolidation-and-competition-state-legislation-tracker-2025-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2026\/03\/13\/healthcare-consolidation-and-competition-state-legislation-tracker-2025-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Consolidation and Competition State Legislation Tracker: 2025 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>State legislatures are increasingly active in reshaping healthcare markets, with 2025 marking a particularly aggressive year for legislative action. Across many jurisdictions, new laws expand premerger visibility into healthcare deals, require greater ownership and affiliation transparency, restrict private equity and management service organization involvement in clinical enterprises, recalibrate certificate\u2011of\u2011need (CON) frameworks and curb post\u2011employment noncompete for physicians and other clinicians. Several measures also address patient\u2011facing transparency and communications.\u00a0While federal scrutiny of healthcare transactions and practices remains significant, new state legislation is presenting most immediate changes to deal planning, governance and employment structures. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/healthcare_consolidation_competition_state_legislation_tracker_2025_review_0326.html\">Read the full <em>Alert <\/em>on the Duane Morris website. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State legislatures are increasingly active in reshaping healthcare markets, with 2025 marking a particularly aggressive year for legislative action. Across many jurisdictions, new laws expand premerger visibility into healthcare deals, require greater ownership and affiliation transparency, restrict private equity and management service organization involvement in clinical enterprises, recalibrate certificate\u2011of\u2011need (CON) frameworks and curb post\u2011employment noncompete &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2026\/03\/13\/healthcare-consolidation-and-competition-state-legislation-tracker-2025-in-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Healthcare Consolidation and Competition State Legislation Tracker: 2025 in Review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,10,49,98,17],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-antitrust","tag-competition","tag-healthcare","tag-nina-kalandadze","tag-sean-mcconnell"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}