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Idaho is docking its payment to a Medicaid claim-processing company by $3 million because of the major problems the company had in implementing its new system last year. Meanwhile, the state is still trying to recover nearly $10 million in ...

Friends Lanae Phillips and Barbie Doherty agree that when they decided to start Sun Flour Mills in 2009, they knew far less than they realized.  “The learning curve was steep and still shocks us,” Phillips said.  Fast forward two years, ...

The Coeur d’Alene Tribe will be kicking off construction this month on its $17 million community medical center.  The 50,000-square-foot Benewah Medical and Wellness Centeron the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation will double the size of the facility in use now, a ...

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare won’t suspend Medicaid payments to hospitals around the state, after all. A week ago, the agency announced it would suspend them for at least one week because an increase in claims was straining ...

Idaho providers who have struggled for several months to be paid through Molina Healthcare, Idaho’s Medicaid administrator, have a new concern on the horizon. Changes in law go into effect July 1 that will add new complications to the reimbursement ...

A Boise chiropractor is facing jail time for submitting roughly 3,000 false Medicaid claims over two years. Jerry Cramer, 70, was sentenced June 8 in Fourth District Court to 90 days in jail, and 14 years’ probation. He was ordered ...

In an effort to be closer to the customers they serve, Brownfield’s Prosthetics & Orthotics has opened an office in Meridian. Established in 1949, the Boise-based company recently moved into a new one-story building at 1912 E. Franklin Road, about ...

New hospitals and health care facilities are springing up across the state, and more projects are in the pipeline. The boom is cyclical, said Joel Rogers, chief operating officer at Minidoka Memorial Medical Center in Rupert. Idaho saw a flurry ...

Idaho’s 2,400 office-based physicians supported 14,000 jobs and paid $1.9 billion in wages in 2009, according to a new study from the state’s physician interest group. The Idaho Medical Association commissioned the study on the physician practice landscape this year ...

St. Luke’s Health Systems is further expanding its services in west Treasure Valley with a new $25 million clinic planned in Nampa. St. Luke’s will anchor the medical and retail complex on 35 acres near the Treasure Valley Marketplace near Midland ...