Federal Bill Takes Aim at Private Equity’s Role in Healthcare Randy Dotinga

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/federal-bill-takes-aim-private-equitys-role-healthcare-2026a100100o?src= As Oregon goes, so goes the nation. That’s the hope of a Democratic US senator who wants to limit private equity’s role in healthcare via legislation modeled on the Beaver State’s strict policies. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act, introduced this month by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and congressional colleagues, aims to tightly control who can own a medical practice or contract for medical services. “It is a federal override,” said Chicago attorney John Saran, JD, a partner with the law firm of Holland & Knight. “These legislators think the Oregon model is what is needed right now.”