Written Testimony of Sophia Tripoli for New Jersey Senate Committee Hearing

On December 8, 2025, Sophia Tripoli submitted written testimony to the New Jersey Senate Committee on Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens in support of A5376/S4299. S4299 will help slow decades of health care cost growth in New Jersey by:

1. Codifying the Office of Health Care Affordability and Transparency and granting the office clear authority to collect data from hospitals to support an annual evaluation of health care cost growth and the state employee health plan;
2. Establishing the Health Care Cost Containment and Price Transparency Commission charged with monitoring health care cost growth and developing and enforcing a health care cost growth and hospital price growth benchmark; and
3. Requiring hospitals to comply with federal price transparency rules while protecting patients from debt collection action for services delivered while a hospital is noncompliant.