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A case for encryption | Idaho hospice hit with $50,000 penalty for breach

By Joseph Conn | January 05, 2013 | Print Magazine

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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Regional News/West: Judge OKs St. Luke's deal in Idaho | Acquisition of state's largest doc practice being probed by state, federal agencies

By Joe Carlson | January 05, 2013 | Print Magazine

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 collects $2.9 million in drug firm settlement

By Associated Press | December 28, 2012

Idaho will be collecting $2.9 million as part of the latest settlement with two national pharmaceutical companies.
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Idaho doc deal under FTC lens moves forward

By Joe Carlson | December 20, 2012 | Basic Web

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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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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