Dr. Daniel Rapport filed the FTC complaint Saturday after ProMedica submitted a bid this month to take over operation of— but not own — UTMC in response to the University of Toledo’s advertisement for proposals to purchase, lease, or manage the hospital, according to a news release issued by the Save UTMC Coalition.
In his complaint, Dr. Rapport argues an affiliation agreement signed between the university and ProMedica five years ago has resulted in all UTMC faculty and residents — save for those in all orthopedics, family medicine, and psychiatry — to move their practices to the flagship hospital of ProMedica. Orthopedics, among UTMC’s top revenue-generators, are supposed to move to ProMedica by July 1, he wrote.
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