State not recovering costs for new Oregon merger reviews

When Oregon lawmakers created a program in 2021 to screen major health care mergers and other deals for harmful effects, they told the state to impose fees to cover all its costs.

But that hasn’t happened.

Instead, fees paid by corporate applicants have covered only a small portion of the Oregon Health Authority’s ballooning costs for the program, according to records obtained by The Lund Report.

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