New Hampshire payer mix, regulation & malpractice drivers
- Surprise billing protection: Moderate state statute — partial state-level surprise billing protection alongside federal NSA
- Certificate of Need (CON) status: Extensive Certificate of Need — broad CON program covering hospitals, ASCs, imaging, and surgical capacity
- Medicaid expansion status: ACA Medicaid expanded — coverage to 138% federal poverty level
- Malpractice non-economic damages cap: No enforceable malpractice non-economic damages cap — no cap (NH Supreme Court struck down $250K cap in Brannigan v. Usitalo 1991)
- Hospital price transparency mandate: Robust state mandate — state-level price transparency beyond federal CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule
- Dominant health insurance market structure: Regional-system dominant — vertically-integrated regional health system shapes market
New Hampshire medical board & physician licensing
- License status: Statewide license required
- License board: New Hampshire Board of Medicine — Office of Professional Licensure and Certification (OPLC) (official site)
- Permit: New Hampshire Board of Medicine MD/DO license required; DEA Schedule II-V + New Hampshire Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP); hospital privileging at Dartmouth Health / Catholic Medical Center / Elliot Health System; Certificate of Need required through NH DHHS under RSA Ch. 151-C; NH HealthCost transparency website mandate (one of the earliest in the country)
How medical care costs vary in New Hampshire
State-specific code or insurance rule: New Hampshire operates the NH HealthCost website (NHHealthCost.nh.gov) — one of the earliest state-mandated public hospital + procedure price transparency websites in the country, launched in 2007 under NH Insurance Department mandate predating the federal CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule by 14 years — and New Hampshire Supreme Court struck down the state's $250,000 medical malpractice non-economic damages cap in Brannigan v. Usitalo (1991) under the New Hampshire Constitution Part I Article 14 right-to-trial-by-jury clause, leaving NH as one of the no-cap northeastern states (alongside ME, NY, PA), plus NH adopted ACA Medicaid expansion in 2014 (NH Health Protection Program).
Cities in New Hampshire
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