ApolloMD, the Georgia-based company recently hired by PeaceHealth to staff its Lane County hospital emergency departments, has responded to a request for information from Oregon lawmakers. But, according to the Oregon House Majority Leader, the company’s responses have raised more questions than answers.
Rep. Ben Bowman, D-Tigard, was lead author of Senate Bill 951, a 2025 law designed to prevent the corporate practice of medicine in Oregon.
On Feb. 4, PeaceHealth announced its intention to end a 35-year emergency medicine contract with locally-owned Eugene Emergency Physicians and install ApolloMD, a healthcare staffing company that Bowman had never heard of…