medicaid

The Idaho Sheriff’s Association, overwhelmingly is filled with members elected as Republicans.

County officials say a Medicaid expansion proposal has passed the signature threshold needed to get on the November ballot.

The estimated number of Idahoans who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid has dropped at least 20 percent over the past four years and possibly as much as 35 percent, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare said Monday.

Low-income women in Idaho would have access to important health and family planning services under a proposal that cleared a key hurdle Wednesday inside the Statehouse.

An eastern Idaho lawmaker has introduced legislation allowing health insurance carriers to offer non-Obamacare approved plans, while also imposing new requirements for Medicaid recipients.

State lawmakers are moving forward with a plan to reduce Idaho's health coverage gap. A house committee introduced legislation on Monday that would allow the state to seek two federal waivers to the Affordable Care Act.

Many depend on the Children's Health Insurance Program to help pay for their child's medical care.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho's top health officials are collecting input from residents across the state on their latest plan to provide health care to poor residents who do not have medical coverage. The proposal calls for Idaho to apply for two federal waivers that would change how the state's working poor can qualify for health insurance subsidies or Medicaid...

The Idaho Attorney General's office has flagged a handful of concerns while vetting a proposal seeking to expand Medicaid coverage through a ballot initiative

You may not like my politics but some of you missed an opportunity to speak over me directly to voters.

Officials with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare say the company tapped by the state to transport Medicaid patients for non-emergency services is ending its $70 million contract with the state.

Health advocates who have been stymied by Idaho's Republican-dominant Legislature to expand Medicaid have filed paperwork for a ballot initiative.

The Republican spoke about health care, road construction and gasoline taxes.

Your leftist buddies in mainstream media are campaigning against Raul Labrador, again.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The chairman of the House Health and Welfare Committee says his $10 million proposal to provide limited primary care services to Idahoans poorest doesn't have enough votes to pass a legislative hearing.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A small group of Idaho lawmakers say the Republican-dominated Legislature must find a way to provide health care to the state's low-income uninsured population in 2017.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A small group of Idaho lawmakers has agreed they won't be coming to a consensus on the best way to provide medical care to the estimated 78,000 Idahoans without health coverage after spending months reviewing the issue.

When Bill Clinton criticizes Obamacare he isn’t calling for a return to a market based solution.  The conniving Clinton’s do nothing by accident.  He and his devious wife have been salivating over the prospect of socialized medicine for decades...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — New federal data shows that Idaho Medicare patients are among the least likely to return to the hospital after being treated for certain ailments.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho lawmakers tasked with fixing the state's so-called Medicaid gap will take public testimony later this month.