Bipartisan U.S. Senate bill aims to slow health consolidation

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) have introduced legislation to crack down on health care conglomerates that own multiple parts of the industry (Source: “Warren, Hawley introducing legislation to break up ‘Big Medicine’,” The Hill, Feb. 10).
 
Warren and Hawley’s “Break Up Big Medicine Act” proposes prohibiting parent companies from owning a medical provider or management services organization and a PBM or insurer. It also proposes prohibiting parent companies of prescription drug or medical device wholesalers from owning a medical provider or management services organization.