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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 ...

Despite the threat of lower Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements for those who lag behind, Idaho providers have been slow to adopt electronic medical records. Health care providers had shelled out millions of dollars to properly deploy electronic record-keeping systems before ...

Problems weighing down Idaho’s insurance exchange were underscored the week of Oct. 21 when the Internet health care marketplace’s leaders predicted they now must enroll 5,000 people per month for coverage through March to meet 2014 goals. In fact, even ...

Idaho insurance exchange leaders Oct. 22 trimmed their executive director’s power to sign lucrative deals after criticizing her decision last week to give a former board member a no-bid, $375,000 contract. Your Health Idaho director Amy Dowd now must get ...

Two state lawmakers called Oct. 21 for cancellation of a nearly $375,000 no-bid contract awarded to one of the Your Health Idaho insurance exchange’s own board members. Republicans Sen. Jim Rice of Caldwell and Rep. Kelley Packer of McCammon, both ...

A board member of the Idaho health insurance exchange quit Oct. 16, the same day the exchange awarded his company a no-bid contract worth up to $375,000. Frank Chan resigned from the Your Health Idaho board to avoid the appearance ...

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 ...