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Utah doctors complain of conflict of interest in Intermountain Healthcare’s sports medicine contract

Nonprofit says cost savings are behind its decisions, but its statement did not address questions of possible bias.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dr. Paul Winterton, pictured at Lone Peak Hospital in Draper on Thursday, April 22, 2021, is one of several surgeons who have complained that a conflict of interest marred Intermountain Healthcare’s move last year to end a contract with the country’s leading sports medicine orthopedic device manufacturer.