Tim Parkey was sitting in the living room of his Elk home last month with his wife – who has Stage 4 lung cancer – lying in a chair beside him when his cellphone rang.
The largest insurance provider in Idaho announced this week that it is seeking a state investigation into how a new hospital in Post Falls is billing its patients by using an arbitration process that it claims has inflated patients' medical costs.
RITZVILLE – Nearly 200 residents packed into a small community meeting room Saturday in hopes of learning how they might save their small town hospital amid allegations of financial fraud from former administrators and lax board oversight.
Ritzville’s East Adams Rural Health Care is in dire financial straits as the hospital considers laying off the majority of its workforce or closing entirely.
For the past few years, Spokane family physician Gretchen LaSalle has participated in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workgroup determining national RSV vaccine policy.
The state’s Women Infants and Children Nutrition Program will not have the money to offer people benefits if the federal government’s shutdown continues past late November, a state health official said.
