Civil Discourse for Common Good
The Corporatization of Healthcare
Friday, May 10, 2024 | 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (doors open 11:30 AM)
Dye House, Willamette Heritage Center
Under longstanding and current law in Oregon, healthcare practices must be majority-owned by healthcare practitioners. This is called the Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine, which bans profiteering from healthcare services. However, private equity companies and others have taken advantage of loopholes to get around this doctrine, and in the 2024 short session, lawmakers in Salem attempted a bipartisan, bicameral effort to close some of those loopholes for physician practices to help keep healthcare accessible to all Oregonians. SCC has invited some of those involved in this effort to describe current law, how some of the loopholes are used, and what can be done to address this issue.
Moderator:
Senator Deb Patterson, (D) District 10), which includes South and West Salem, Monmouth, Independence, and parts of Four Corners and unincorporated East Salem. She has served for over 20 years in healthcare administration, including serving as Executive Director of the International Parish Nurse, which equipped RNs to provide health care advocacy and education around the world. Deb also served as Executive Director of Northwest Parish Nurse Ministries, based in Portland, and was vice president of a children’s health philanthropy.
Panelists:
Representative Ben Bowman, (D) District 25 covering Tigard, Metzger, and South Beaverton, is Oregon’s House Majority Leader. In 2019, he was elected to the Tigard-Tualatin School Board. He served as Vice Chair in 2020 and as Chair in 2021.Previously, he worked for former State Rep. Margaret Doherty, who represented Tigard in the legislature for over a decade. Bowman earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon, and later his master’s degree in education policy from Stanford University.
Hayden Rooke-Ley is a federal judicial law clerk, a recent graduate of Stanford Law School, and Senior Fellow for Healthcare at the American Economic Liberties Project. Hayden’s academic and policy writing focuses on issues of health care law and policy, including corporate consolidation of medical providers, Medicare and Medicaid financing, and labor organizing in the health care sector. Prior to law school, Hayden was a health policy advisor in Congress and worked at Aledade, a value-based care company that partners with independent primary care physicians.
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