{"id":47494,"date":"2025-07-08T02:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T02:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47494\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T02:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T02:01:10","slug":"federal-appeals-court-upholds-oregons-hospital-merger-oversight-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47494\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal appeals court upholds Oregon\u2019s hospital merger oversight law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/QR36KA5GRVGM3D4X7GWI72PFK4.jpg\"  fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Portland hospital\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article__image-content\" height=\"600\" width=\"300\"\/>The emergency entrance for Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, pictured on Monday, April 17, 2023.Sean Meagher\/The Oregonian<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FZL5EPL53VCCTGRCHDVOFRIJXA\">A federal court has backed Oregon\u2019s efforts to keep a closer eye on major health care business deals, rejecting a legal challenge brought by the state\u2019s hospital lobby group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"THLQY7ZHMJGIRI7VB5IRPVRQ4U\">In a decision issued Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court\u2019s ruling, finding that a state law that gives the Oregon Health Authority the power to review \u2014 and even block \u2014 hospital mergers and other major health care transactions is not unconstitutionally vague.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The emergency entrance for Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, pictured on Monday, April 17, 2023.Sean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[210,1141,1142,6478,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-47494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-hospital","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}