Melissa Isavoran claims the regional insurer contracted by the state to oversee care for low-income people fired her for flagging violations, but the health plan declines comment
Mar 14
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Private equity and large corporations have a complicated and not always noticed presence in health care. A bill limiting the corporate practice of medicine failed to pass the Oregon Legislature despite broad support.
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Bills concerning treatment centers, violence against hospital staff, school health and insurance mandates perished, but other impactful bills made it through
Mar 12
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Pictured: the North Albany building of The Corvallis Clinic, P.C.
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COURTESY OF THE CORVALLIS CLINIC, P.C.
Owners of clinic group say the locally owned business is in a financial emergency that warrants immediate purchase by the global health care giant UnitedHealth Group
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A view of the Oregon State Capitol on February 26, 2024.
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With patients and providers suffering the effects of pricing battles between drugmakers and insurers, lawmakers appear poised to make new laws
Mar 5
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Sterling Hanakahi, 73, and Anita Hanakahi, 70, of Tillamook say they were blindsided when Texas-based U.S. Renal Care executives announced they would close their kidney dialysis center in the coastal community Feb. 23. Anita has relied on the center for the past nine years. For her and 10 other local patients, she said, local dialysis treatment is a matter of life and death.
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COURTESY OF ANITA HANAKAHI
A Texas-based company, U.S. Renal Care, vowed to keep its clinic open until patients had alternatives, but some of them say that's not happening
Feb 29
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State Rep. Ben Bowman, D-Tigard, and former Gov. John Kitzhaber testified in favor a bill limiting private equity and other business interests involvement in health care during a February 26, 2024 hearing of the Oregon Senate Health Committee.
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The 11-clinic chain’s ownership says financial struggles threaten quality of care, but critics want other options considered, saying the proposal would hurt patients
CareOregon leaders stood to win big, but a review said the public interest would suffer if the nonprofit merged with California-based SCAN Group. Proponents don't agree.
Legislation would curb the trend in which private equity investors, insurance conglomerates and retail chains are swallowing clinics and transferring power away from patients and their doctors, writes former Gov. John Kitzhaber