Constitutional challenge impacts small hospitals
Walter Knox Memorial Hospital, Walter Knox Memorial Hospital administrator Max Long needs to lease an updated CT scanner for $750,000. Long said he’d rather not wait for voters’ permission to do it....
View ArticleHospitals step up their quality control efforts
J. Robert Polk, the chief medical officer at Saint Alphonsus’ Boise hospital, remembers telling patients as an intern at Vanderbilt University that it would be better all around if they kept their stay...
View ArticleBallot measure prompts hospital association campaign
The Idaho Hospital Association is running its largest political campaign ever to support HJR4, a ballot measure that would affect how Idaho’s public hospitals can borrow money. IHA spent $22,193...
View ArticleHospital association spent $750,000 on HJR4 passage
Idaho’s public hospital users will likely see updates and new equipment in coming years as the hospitals take advantage of a decision Nov. 2 that restored their rights to borrow money without...
View ArticleHospital credentialing process to come before lawmakers
Lawmakers will be asked this winter to preserve a key component of physician credentialing: the peer review carried out by physicians’ colleagues. At issue is the confidentiality of the reviews. A 2009...
View ArticleHealth industry leaders speak out
With a collective 122 years of hospital leadership between them, Joe Morris, Ed Dahlberg and Steve Millard jokingly referred to themselves as “the three wise men” when IBR sat down with them Oct. 28 to...
View ArticleAdvocates hope penny sales tax increase finds backers this session
Medicaid service providers will try to convince Idaho’s decision-makers that raising sales tax by a penny would cause less economic harm to the state than withholding money that provides services and...
View ArticleIdaho suspends hospital Medicaid payments
A bump in claims over the last month is spurring the state of Idaho to suspend Medicaid payments to hospitals for up to two weeks in order to balance the budget by the end of the fiscal year. Payments...
View ArticleVolunteers as essential to hospital as paid staff
Becoming a hospital volunteer is not easy. Volunteer workers frequently undergo the same stringent application process that potential employees submit to, and in many ways they are perceived by the...
View ArticleMedicaid expansion savings add up for Idaho, business group says
The business lobby group Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry predicts Idaho would pay between $108 million and $114 million less in Medicaid costs in 2015 if the state expands the program. For...
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