By: Marshall Allen Marilyn Bartlett took a deep breath, drew herself up to her full 5 feet and a smidge, and told the assembled handful of Montana officials that she …
Task force to look at health insurance savings
By: Phil Drake The state has created a bipartisan work group to look into saving Montanans money on individual health insurance premiums through a reinsurance program, the governor’s office said Wednesday. …
Montana to explore program that could lower some health insurance rates
By: Holly Michels The state is exploring whether a Montana-run reinsurance program would help lower the premiums people pay when buying their health insurance on the federal marketplace, in some …
Land Board OKs last piece of Whitefish Conservation Project
By: Patrick Reilly Stillwater State Forest near Whitefish is set to gain more than 13,000 acres as a long-gestating conservation project nears completion. The woodlands northwest of Whitefish Lake have …
BIGFORK MAN FOUND GUILTY OF RUNNING PONZI SCHEME
By: Scott Shindledecker A Bigfork man with a lengthy criminal record for felony theft and fraud was recently found guilty in U.S. District Court in Billings of 21 counts for …
Local Physician Opens New Practice Focusing on ‘Quality Instead of Quantity’
By: Madeleine Lamon And so, Tabor-Manaker, a graduate of the Michigan State University School of Medicine who arrived in Kalispell in 2007, first working at Family Health Care before joining …
The truth about direct primary care
By: Greg Hertz Direct primary care agreements are a fee-for-service contract between health care providers and patients, and are meant to cover preventive, routine or preliminary office visits. Primary care …
`Obamacare’ individual policies may see moderate or no increases for 2019
By: Mike Dennison Health insurers selling individual policies on the “Obamacare” marketplace in Montana are proposing only modest increases for 2019, on average – or, no increase at all. State …
Regulators propose fines against pharmacy benefits managers
By: Amy Beth Hanson Prime Therapeutics has operated without a license since 2013, and two subsidiaries of Express Scripts were unlicensed while handling claims from 2013 to 2017, state Auditor …
As prescription drug cost rise, state auditor goes after pharmacy ‘middle men’
By: Katheryn Houghton Montana officials are going after a pair of companies that influence prescription drug prices, saying they’ve worked in the state illegally and need to hand over more …