Idaho news and information

Hospitals have been gobbling up physician practices at a rapid clip in recent years, raising concern among antitrust regulators that some of the acquisitions will lead to monopolistic practices such as price gouging. Yet the government still hasn't brought a single case to trial, which would...
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The Federal Trade Commission and the Idaho attorney general will file an antitrust challenge to try to unravel the 3-month-old acquisition of the state's largest physician practice by its biggest health system.
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Four more states were given tentative approval to operate health insurance exchanges in partnership with the federal government on Thursday.
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Bill Enger waited patiently to see his doctor. Instead of sitting in a waiting room at an office park somewhere in Boise, Idaho, though, Enger relaxed on his couch with his pug, Molly, by his side.
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The top enforcer of federal healthcare privacy and security laws levied a historic and comparatively hefty fine for a small breach of patient data on a stolen laptop computer.
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St. Luke's Health System in Idaho quickly completed its contentious acquisition of the state's largest physician practice after a judge declined to block the move pending the outcome of a competitor's legal challenge.
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Idaho will be collecting $2.9 million as part of the latest settlement with two national pharmaceutical companies.
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St. Luke's Health System in Idaho intends to close on its embattled acquisition of the state's largest physician practice, Saltzer Medical Group, now that a judge has issued a favorable ruling in a lawsuit challenging the sale.
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Despite ongoing antitrust investigations by the state attorney general and the Federal Trade Commission, Idaho's largest healthcare provider, St. Luke's Health System, intends to move forward with plans to acquire Idaho's biggest physician practice.
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A subsidiary of Trinity Health, Livonia, Mich., has filed a private antitrust lawsuit in Idaho in an attempt to block the impending sale of Idaho's largest physician practice to Trinity's direct competitor in the market, St. Luke's Health System, Boise.
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