On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s Value-based Care Collides with Competition podcast series, health care attorneys Brett Friedman, Christina Bergeron and Natalie LaRue discuss the recent developments and trends related to health care access, cost and quality on the East Coast. Efforts by these East Coast states mirror the efforts on the West Coast in states like Oregon, Washington, Nevada and California, and in some cases, pre-date them. They talk about the deal impacts of existing laws in Connecticut and Massachusetts, a newly passed law in New York that will take effect this summer, and proposed state laws in Maine and North Carolina*, focusing on what these laws could mean for health care transactions in these states, especially those involving private equity and venture-capital-funded entities.