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This month’s glitch-filled rollout of the health insurance marketplaces created by federal law is a business opportunity for brokers and agents, but regulators warn that it also opened the door for those who would seek to line their pockets by ...

The State of Idaho has already lost out on a possible $40 million in savings by not adopting a revamped Medicaid program, Saint Alphonsus Executive Director of Community Health and Public Policy Corey Surber told the audience at a presentation ...

Idaho insurance exchange leaders could hike a fee on individual policies by nearly 75 percent within two years because existing assessments may be insufficient to sustain the Internet health coverage marketplace’s operations, emails show. The $70 million Your Health Idaho ...

A federal judge presiding over an antitrust lawsuit between two major Idaho health care providers has declared that trial testimony and documents can remain hidden from public view, providing attorneys make a compelling case for secrecy. U.S. District Judge B. ...

Idaho’s $70 million insurance exchange hit opening-day snags Oct. 1, as did exchanges across the nation, with online applications being processed much more slowly than anticipated due to high Internet volume that hampered efforts to create accounts or enroll in ...

On the eve of the Idaho exchange rollout, health care insurance agents are still waiting to be convinced it will benefit their businesses. The concerns came even though the board that created the Internet marketplace for individual and small business ...

Idaho’s $70 million insurance exchange starts Oct. 1, allowing about 200,000 people to enroll via its youridahohealth.org Internet site for federally subsidized insurance. That’s a key component of President Barack Obama’s health overhaul. Don’t expect an immediate marketing blitz, however: ...

Idaho’s fledgling health insurance exchange lost its only for-profit insurer, cutting nearly 10 percent of the Internet marketplace’s coverage offerings even before it opens for enrollment Oct. 1. Altius Health Plans was slated to sell 15 different individual policies on ...

Federal officials insisted Sept. 25 that people seeking coverage via Idaho’s online health insurance exchange starting next week shouldn’t fear for their privacy, despite last-minute concerns among foes of President Barack Obama’s health overhaul that more should be done to ...

Lawsuits pitting the Idaho attorney general’s office, the Federal Trade Commission and Saint Alphonsus Health System against St. Luke’s Health System and its quest to expand heads into federal court for a trial starting Sept. 23. The Idaho Statesman reports ...