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A federal judge says a Boise-area hospital violated federal antitrust laws when it purchased Idaho’s largest independent physicians’ practice. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill made the ruling Jan. 24, ordering St. Luke’s Health System to undo its buyout of ...

Idaho insurance exchange officials don’t know if the 20,000 people signed up for coverage effective Jan. 1 hail from the ranks of the uninsured, or if they previously had coverage but switched to exchange policies because they’re now eligible for ...

What’s a surefire way to stop business owners in their tracks? Throw a whopping dose of uncertainty in their path. They’ll be more likely to hold off on capital investments, freeze hiring and just generally operate in panic mode. In ...

Annual medical costs for Idaho’s indigent population doubled since 2002 to nearly $53 million, including both and state funding. The chairman of the Catastrophic Health Care Fund, Roger Christensen, told Joint Finance-Appropriations budget writers Jan. 16 the price tag dipped ...

Nearly 20,000 Idahoans have selected a health insurance plan with Your Health Idaho, out of about 40,000 people eligible to enroll in a plan. Your Health Idaho, the state’s insurance exchange, released data from the U.S. Department of Health and ...

Enrollment in Idaho’s insurance exchange has blossomed after the federal government fixed the website that residents use to sign up for health insurance coverage. Roughly 20,000 people signed up for individual and family coverage in time for it to begin ...

By 2020, the U.S. could find itself more than 90,000 physicians short, according to estimates. Five years later, the shortage could be more than 130,000. An optimistic sign: Nationally, applications and enrollments are increasing at medical schools. But the optimism ...

Posters pitching products are common in airport terminals, as are rotating signs selling services at the mall. But advertisements inside hospitals? Health-care facilities have historically adopted more somber tones, but many around the nation are changing that tune as advertisers ...

Partisan politics are coloring governors’ decisions about whether to expand Medicaid in their states, affecting billions of dollars and thousands of low-income people. The question of whether they receive Medicaid coverage may have little to do with need, and much ...

State insurance exchange leaders know virtually nothing about the 1,730 people who purchased health coverage available via Your Health Idaho through Nov. 30. Director Amy Dowd said Dec. 11 that Idaho’s reliance on the federal government to enroll people has ...