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In 15 states, a single health insurer has a commercial market share of 50 percent or more, according to a new report released by the American Medical Association. Idaho was one of the 15 in 2011, the year for which ...

Idaho will let insurance carriers reinstate coverage for thousands of people who were due to have policies canceled under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter said Dec. 3 he’s asked insurance carriers to consider reinstating coverage ...

A nonprofit health insurer in Montana has been granted another $27 million in federal funding to expand into Idaho. The Montana Health CO-OP announced its potential expansion on Dec. 2, Lee Newspapers of Montana reported. MHC President and CEO Jerry ...

All they need are mints on the pillows. Hospitals nationwide are embracing trends that pump up the luxury in private patient rooms. Large flat-screen TVs, private refrigerators, new furniture and unlimited Internet access – the sort of amenities that have long defined ...

ZoomCare, a medical clinic with a convenience-based care and business model, is opening its second Treasure Valley office at The Village at Meridian. The new clinic will be open in mid-January, spokesman Len Bergstein said Nov. 18. It will have ...

Family medicine physician David Schmitz took over as president of the Idaho Medical Association this summer at a time of great change in the medical industry. Providers, patients and payers are all scrambling to adapt to the changes mandated by ...

Just 338 people selected health coverage via Idaho’s insurance exchange during its glitch-plagued first month. Your Health Idaho’s enrollee figures were released Nov. 13 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which also released statistics for the nation’s ...

Michael Griffiths is CEO of the Life Flight Network, a not-for-profit, hospital-owned service that provides air ambulance service in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Griffiths, a fixed-wing pilot and flight nurse who still dons a flight suit and helmet to help ...

Improved preventive care is a key provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and once health insurance exchange plans take effect Jan. 1, health care providers expect demand for those services to increase. Meeting that demand could be ...

The number of health care providers writing and submitting patient prescriptions electronically is eight times higher than it was four years ago, and Idaho rates are ahead of the curve, according to government statistics. The national study, conducted by the ...