Local lawmakers previously sent a letter to Gov. Mike DeWine asking that he intervene and Ms. Fedor and State Rep. Mike Sheehy (D., Oregon), sent a second on Monday, reminding the governor that when he was Ohio attorney general and supported the 2015 UT/ProMedica agreement, he had noted then that “the Attorney General reserved the right to take future action, should the proposed affiliation prove to be anticompetitive in purpose or effect.”

“It is now clear that the effect of the affiliation agreement has been anticompetitive, and recent news reports about possible conflicts of interest involving two UT trustees raise questions whether one purpose for the agreement was to undermine UTMC,” the letter read. “The 50-year agreement was marketed as a means to improve UT’s strained finances and to help its [UT College of Medicine and Life Sciences] enhance its academic mission. Neither has occurred.”

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