Heart clinic privately settles monopoly lawsuit with Salem Health
Salem Health has privately settled a lawsuit with a local cardiology clinic that claimed the health care giant was monopolizing heart care in the city.
The Oregon Heart Center, the largest independent cardiac care center in the mid-Willamette Valley, filed its $15 million lawsuit against Salem Health in September 2024. It claimed Salem Health violated antitrust law by pressuring patients to switch providers, limiting referrals to the clinic and restricting patients’ access to information about…
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Salem Health has a monopoly (that is what I call it, don’t know about the legal definition) on healthcare here in Salem. It is next to impossible to find a doctor that is not tied to them. Doctors not associated with Salem Health are not taking new patients, their insurance or they have a limit on the age of the patients. In the last few years my family doctor of 20 years retired, my Urologist moved out of state and I really think it was because of Salem Health taking over their practices.