Every hospital in North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming is in a highly concentrated market, according to a blog post from Yale’s new Health Care Affordability Lab. As rising health care costs put more financial strain on Americans, “one major and underappreciated factor driving price increases is rising consolidation among U.S. hospitals,” the blog post argues. It notes that over the past 20 years, there have been around 1,300 mergers among the nation’s approximately 5,000 hospitals. The Federal Trade Commission has taken action on competition concerns against only 13 of the deals.
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Source: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/09/hospital-concentration-states-health-costs