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Regional News/West: St. Alphonsus vs. St. Luke's | Suit aims to halt deal to acquire Idaho practice

By Joe Carlson | November 17, 2012 | Print Magazine

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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Trinity Health subsidiary sues to block doc practice sale

By Joe Carlson | November 13, 2012 | Basic Web

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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Idaho spends $195,000 to study Medicaid expansion

By Associated Press | October 14, 2012

Idaho is spending $195,000 for two out-of-state consulting firms to examine expanding Medicaid coverage in Idaho for more low-income people under President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare says.
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Idaho could save $380 million with Medicaid expansion: analysis

By Associated Press | September 10, 2012

Idaho's taxpayers could save $380 million over six years by agreeing to expand Medicaid coverage for more low-income people under the healthcare overhaul, a new analysis finds.
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Gentiva acquires Wash. home health provider

By Beth Kutscher | September 04, 2012 | Basic Web

Gentiva Health Services, Atlanta, has acquired Family Home Care Corp., a home health and hospice provider in Spokane, Wash.
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St. Luke's, Regence Blue Shield partner on coordinated care in Idaho

By Ashok Selvam | August 23, 2012

St. Luke's Health System and Regence Blue Shield of Idaho, both of Boise, have agreed to create a coordinated-care model for patients in the state.
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Melton to be CEO of N.J. hospital

By Beth Kutscher | July 17, 2012 | Basic Web

LHP Hospital Group, Plano, Texas, and Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center have named Chad Melton as CEO of the former Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood, N.J., which will reopen next summer.
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U. of Wash. aims to boost rural medicine

By Idaho Statesman (Boise) | June 25, 2012

According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, about 20% of the U.S. population—more than 50 million people—is in rural locations, but only 9% of the nation's physicians practice there.
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Picking up the scent | Wave of practice acquisitions by hospitals has antitrust regulators on notice

By Joe Carlson | June 09, 2012 | Print Magazine

Chasing the national mandates for efficiency and coordinated care, St. Luke's Health System in Idaho has devoted large sums to buying up doctors' offices and consolidating key markets.
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Ensign Group acquires Texas SNF

By Beth Kutscher | June 05, 2012 | Basic Web

The Ensign Group, Mission Viejo, Calif., has acquired Paris (Texas) Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, effective June 1.
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