Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum has asked a judge to force Providence Health & Services to turn over documents in an investigation of the health system’s charity care program. The department said it’s investigating the practice as a “potential” violation of the state’s Unlawful Trade Practices Act, a consumer protection law, as well as charity care laws that require the nonprofit health system to provide free care to low-income patients in exchange for its various tax exemptions.
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