Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, prohibits a hospital from negotiating or entering into an anti-competitive agreement or engage in anti-competitive conduct with other hospitals in this state; prohibits state funds from being used to facilitate, or otherwise further, an activity that constitutes the active supervision of anti-competitive conduct in the healthcare sector. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 13.

SB 2496 prohibits Tennessee hospitals from negotiating or entering anti-competitive agreements with other hospitals or engaging in anti-competitive conduct. It also bans the use of state funds to support activities that supervise such anti-competitive behavior in healthcare. The bill amends the 1993 Hospital Cooperation Act to end the state's prior policy of allowing hospital mergers under state oversight, which the legislature determined failed to protect public interests. This law applies to new contracts and agreements executed on or after its effective date.