Idaho Business Review IBR

Since the Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in June, businesses across Idaho have been adapting to a changed health care landscape and preparing for even bigger transformations. A few major changes are in store for ...

Idaho’s taxpayers could save $380 million over six years by agreeing to expand Medicaid coverage for more low-income people under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, according an analysis by the Spokesman-Review. Currently, costs of caring for Idaho’s indigent population ...

SelectHealth, a Utah-based health insurance provider, is expanding its Idaho presence in a partnership  with St. Luke’s Health System aimed at lowering health care costs and improving health outcomes. SelectHealth will open an office in Meridian and offer insurance later this year ...

Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador introduced legislation Aug. 2 in Congress that could potentially undo the constitutional underpinnings of the 2010 health care law. Labrador’s bill is titled “to provide that the individual mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable ...

Medical malpractice payments in 2011 were at their lowest level on record, with injured patients receiving an average of only $327,600, according to a new study by consumer watchdog Public Citizen. “The juxtaposition of declining medical malpractice payments and skyrocketing ...

Idaho Gov. Butch Otter appointed 26 people to two separate working groups that will examine how the state should act on two separate planks of upcoming federal health care reform. The two groups will study whether Idaho should expand Medicaid ...

An Idaho birthing center has taken a new name after midwives there were suspended earlier this year following a state investigation into babies that died. A certificate of organization for New Beginnings Baby Place LLC was filed June 5 with ...

For pharmacist Mike Merrill of Idaho Falls, getting cash up front is always better. Anytime he deals with an insurance company, the money coming Merrill’s way first goes through a pharmacy benefit manager. “They always take their chunk out of ...

The generic antacid Lansoprazole is often prescribed to infants with acid reflux, but the medication is only available in baby-unfriendly tablets or capsules. Compounding pharmacies offer patients another option: adapting the medication to fit specific needs. In one of these ...

Brownfield’s Prosthetics and Orthotics employee Melanie Stohner is much busier than she used to be. She handles billing, compliance and accreditation for the Boise medical equipment supplier, and since January, she’s been working weekends. The workload explosion comes not from ...