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RI H7721

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/12/2026

Primary Sponsor

Kathleen Fogarty

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Origin

House of Representatives

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits unlicensed individuals, corporations, or entities from owning medical practices, employing healthcare licensees, or practicing medicine, with exceptions for safety net clinics, public hospitals, school-based health clinics, and tribal health clinics

  • Requires medical practices to maintain physician-majority ownership (majority of voting shares, majority of directors, and all officers except secretary/treasurer must be licensed physicians)

  • Bans management services organizations from controlling clinical decisions, setting physician compensation, advertising under their own name, or entering noncompete/nondisclosure agreements with employed physicians

  • Mandates annual reporting by healthcare entities to the Department of Health starting January 1, 2027, including ownership structures, organizational charts, affiliated providers, and comprehensive financial reports

  • Establishes enforcement through attorney general subpoena power, $10,000/day penalties for violations, private right of action with up to $100,000 in statutory damages per violation, and civil penalties up to $500,000 for reporting failures

Legislative Description

Establishes the Rhode Island Ban on the Corporate Practice of Medicine Act.

Health And Safety

Last Action

Committee transferred to House Health & Human Services

2/18/2026

Committee Referrals

Health & Human Services2/18/2026
Corporations2/12/2026

Full Bill Text

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