Many states would face substantial primary-care capacity challenges if Medicaid eligibility expands in 2014, as called for under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, says a new article released online recently in the New England Journal
Cost of Medicare claims increased at slowest rate in six years, index shows
May 5, 2011
Data released late last month by S&P Indices indicate that the average per-capita cost of health care services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare programs increased by 6.2 percent during the 12 months ending in February. This is a slight
East Adams Rural Hospital, in Ritzville, has installed a $372,000 advanced computed-tomography (CT) scanner for speedier diagnosis at its 20-bed facility.The Toshiba Aquilion 16 scanner, which was installed in April, has replaced an outdated and
A pediatric cardiologist here, Dr. Carl Garabedian, has become the first physician in the Inland Northwest to begin using a newly approved alternative to open-heart surgery for treating people, mostly children and young adults, with certain heart a
Suzanne Heeren, a Red Lion Hotels Corp. claims assistant, says a majority of the company's employees here return to work faster after job injuries because of an ability to track their cases through the Centers for Occupational Health and Education
A medical team at the Kootenai Cancer Center, in Post Falls, now is treating certain brain tumors with high-dose radiation using a $4 million linear accelerator that's specially equipped to perform what's called stereotactic radiosurgery.The of
Rockwood Clinic PS, of Spokane, recently opened the newly formed Rockwood Heart & Vascular Center for a group of its doctors specializing in the diagnoses and treatment of heart disease and cardiovascular problems. Five cardiologists and one now
Former Providence Health Care executive Michael Wilson is leading a lower back-pain study that will investigate the effectiveness of Pneumex Inc. rehabilitation equipment and its related treatment method used by Spokane-based Revita Rehab LLC. who
At least two years before her diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, Judi Sloane remembers the earliest sign that something was wrong. She found it difficult to fasten the buttons of a blouse. "I remember thinking, how did these button holes shrink?"
Idaho Home Medical, a medical equipment retailer, has leased 1,400 square feet of space in the Northern Lights Mall office-retail center, at 411 W. Harrison, in Coeur d'Alene, and has moved there from larger quarters at 212 W. Ironwood Drive. Craig