250A50988CE3F69B872589A6008034B5 Hearing Summary

Representative Bockenfield and Representative McCormick, co-prime bill sponsors, presented Senate Bill 23-298, allowing certain public hospitals to improve access to health care through collaboration. The bill exempts hospitals with fewer than 50 beds from select antitrust requirements for the purpose of improving healthcare access in rural or frontier communities. A handout was provided to the committee (Attachment A). The bill sponsors responded to questions from the committee.

Kim Bimestefer, representing
the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, testified in support
of the bill.



Kevin Stansbury,
representing Lincoln Health and the Eastern Plains Healthcare Consortium,
testified in support of the bill.



The panelists
responded to questions from the committee.

Representative Bockenfield and Representative McCormick provided concluding remarks on the bill.