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Who Owns Your Doctor? Private Equity and Southern Oregon Healthcare, Part 4 of 4 In June 2025, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed Senate Bill 951 into law. Legal analysts at major law firms called it the toughest state barrier to private equity in healthcare in the country. It was prompted, at least in part, by…
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Who Owns Your Doctor? Private Equity and Southern Oregon Healthcare, Part 3 of 4 There is a question most Southern Oregon residents have never thought to ask about the businesses where they get their healthcare: who owns this place, and where does the money go? For most of the history of American medicine, the answer…
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Who Owns Your Doctor? Private Equity and Southern Oregon Healthcare, Part 2 of 4 In 2020 or 2021 — the exact date is not publicly disclosed — Oregon Medical Group, a physician-founded primary care practice in Lane County, was acquired by Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurance company in the United…
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Who Owns Your Doctor? Private Equity and Southern Oregon Healthcare, Part 1 of 4 There are five physical therapy clinics operating in Medford and Grants Pass right now that most people in this region have never heard of — not as clinics, but as investments. They operate under the name BenchMark Physical Therapy. They have…
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You visit your primary care doctor complaining of persistent fatigue and difficulty sleeping. Blood work comes back normal. Your doctor mentions stress might be a factor and suggests you “try to relax more.” You leave with no concrete help, your symptoms unchanged, wondering if you imagined the whole thing. This scenario plays out thousands of…
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You visit your primary care doctor complaining of persistent fatigue and difficulty sleeping. Blood work comes back normal. Your doctor mentions stress might be a factor and suggests you “try to relax more.” You leave with no concrete help, your symptoms unchanged, wondering if you imagined the whole thing. This scenario plays out thousands of…
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Healthcare delivery in Southern Oregon — and nationally — is shifting. As traditional insurance becomes less affordable and more administratively burdensome, a growing number of clinicians are moving toward Direct Primary Care (DPC) and cash-pay models. This transition is often portrayed as clinician innovation or consumer choice, but it carries structural consequences for the working…
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Most conversations about healthcare start in the exam room. That’s understandable. Care feels personal. It happens one patient at a time, often in moments of vulnerability, urgency, or relief. So when something feels broken—long waits, limited access, rushed visits—we instinctively look to the people closest to the experience: clinicians, hospitals, or policymakers. But the most…
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When national headlines focus on healthcare consolidation—hospital systems acquiring physician practices, private equity buying clinics, insurers merging into ever-larger entities—it’s easy to assume this is simply how healthcare works now. But in Southern Oregon, a quieter and more instructive model has been operating for decades. AllCare Health, the coordinated care organization serving roughly 70,000 people…
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When national headlines focus on healthcare consolidation—hospital systems acquiring physician practices, private equity buying clinics, insurers merging into ever-larger entities—it’s easy to assume this is simply how healthcare works now. But in Southern Oregon, a quieter and more instructive model has been operating for decades. AllCare Health, the coordinated care organization serving roughly 70,000 people…
