By Kimberlee Kruesi/Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Women will no longer be banned from receiving abortion-inducing medication through telemedicine in Idaho under a new agreement. Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands announced Monday that the lawsuit settlement lifts unnecessary burdens on women seeking safe abortions. “Women in Idaho deserve the
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Category: Health Care
Idaho exchange’s subsidies at risk under health care repeal
By Kimberlee Kruesi/Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s health insurance exchange would lose $220 million in tax subsidies if President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is repealed, Your Health Idaho Director Pat Kelly said Wednesday. “Depending on what the repeal would look like, that would be the cost to Idaho,” said Kelly, during a
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Insurance equality? States push for cost-free vasectomies
By Mary Esch/Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Call it contraception equality. Vasectomies, which are not covered under President Barack Obama’s health care law, are increasingly being included in state measures that would require insurers to provide cost-free coverage of birth control. Backers of laws and proposals in such states as Illinois, Vermont, Maryland and
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Cost and Quality: Alliance aims to heal healthcare’s two great ills
By Sarah Glenn For the Journal POCATELLO – Concerns over cost and efforts to bump up quality have prompted more than 700 area healthcare providers to join a new alliance. Born in 2013, the Portneuf Quality Alliance (PQA) is a group of doctors offices, hospitals, and private companies who, together, aim to improve health outcomes and
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Cost and Quality: Alliance aims to heal healthcare’s two great ills
By Sarah Glenn For the Journal POCATELLO – Concerns over cost and efforts to bump up quality have prompted more than 700 area healthcare providers to join a new alliance. Born in 2013, the Portneuf Quality Alliance (PQA) is a group of doctors offices, hospitals, and private companies who, together, aim to improve health outcomes and
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Bingham Memorial Hospital At A Glance
Bingham Memorial Hospital opened its doors in 1950 in Blackfoot, Idaho, with a staff of only six doctors and 14 employees. Today, we have assembled the finest medical staff of more than 150 medical providers from throughout the country, covering more than 45 medical specialties, and employ nearly 750 people throughout eastern Idaho. We are […]
Portneuf Medical Center At A Glance
Eastern Idaho is a special place. For the people who live here, looking out for your neighbor is still the rule and not the exception. As the only hospital in Pocatello and Chubbuck, Portneuf Health Partners works to live up to those same values in caring for the wonderful people in our community. The biggest […]
Can’t buy love? Drug price hikes put sex beyond reach
By LINDA A. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Imagine not being able to afford one of life’s great pleasures — sex. That’s true for many older couples, doctors say. Soaring prices for prescription medicines for impotence and other problems have put the remedies out of reach for some. Without insurance coverage, Viagra
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