H.R. 10177 — Competition in State Healthcare Markets Act

This section requires the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct an annual study over each of the 10 years after enactment on health care competition and consolidation at the State level. The study must collect data on practitioner licensing requirements, hospital and provider mergers and acquisitions, certificates of public advantage and need, counts of facilities and insurers, alternative insurance options, and Herfindahl-Hirschman Index values for acute care, outpatient, and habilitative services; the Assistant Secretary must consult the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, submit annual reports to the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committees and the Senate Finance and HELP Committees, and publish the reports and interactive datasets online.