Post by David Russo, DO, MPH

https://bizj.us/1qqant "Independently owned practices are precisely the locally owned, community-rooted businesses Oregon says it wants. They employ Oregonians, anchor care in their towns, and put downward pressure on prices simply by existing as an alternative. When such practices band together through clinically integrated networks or independent practice associations to share the administrative infrastructure that none of them can afford on their own, that is not the kind of anticompetitive consolidation that antitrust law worries about. It is the competitive counterweight to it."