Official: Idaho should consider withdrawing from Health Data Exchange

Idaho should consider withdrawing its support for a bankrupt government-created but tough-to-regulate health data sharing service supported by $94 million in tax dollars, a top health official told lawmakers on [...]

2024-02-08T19:02:06+00:00February 8th, 2024|Idaho News|0 Comments

North Idaho youth treatment home exposed in InvestigateWest investiga…

This story was first published by InvestigateWest on Feb. 5, 2024. Cornerstone Cottage, the Idaho youth treatment home featured in several recent InvestigateWest articles detailing alleged child abuse and neglect [...]

2024-02-06T14:45:53+00:00February 6th, 2024|Idaho News|0 Comments

Idaho bill that would require children to opt in to vaccine registry …

Idaho legislators advanced a bill on Monday that would require parents to opt in to the state’s vaccine registry, rather than Idaho’s existing policy that lets them to opt their [...]

2024-02-05T22:42:00+00:00February 5th, 2024|Idaho News|0 Comments

Idaho’s COVID data set for disruption after state lawmakers reject mi…

By studying poopy water, Boise State University scientists can predict COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths before they’re even reported. They believe they’re the first people to publish research showing their artificial [...]

2024-02-05T14:39:58+00:00February 5th, 2024|Idaho News|0 Comments

Idaho committee strikes Health and Welfare admin budget to force corr…

Members of the Idaho Legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee took a symbolic hostage on Friday as part of the budget committee’s showdown with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare over [...]

2024-01-13T04:26:51+00:00January 13th, 2024|Idaho News|0 Comments

Idaho health department to change grant procedures in response to aud…

After previously disagreeing with  a critical state audit that found flaws in how $72 million in grant funds were distributed, Idaho’s largest agency is now promising reforms. The Idaho Department [...]

2024-01-12T11:14:41+00:00January 12th, 2024|Idaho News|0 Comments

Prosecutor in child care grants case says there’s probable cause Idaho official committed crime

A prosecutor appointed by Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador said there is probable cause that a former Idaho Department of Health and Welfare employee who led a scrutinized child care [...]

2024-01-01T13:45:11+00:00January 1st, 2024|Idaho News|0 Comments

Almost 57,000 Idaho kids have lost Medicaid. Federal regulators are worried

Idaho has removed children from Medicaid faster than many other states.  The federal government wants that to change. Earlier this year, states started to remove people from Medicaid after federal [...]

2023-12-20T13:03:22+00:00December 20th, 2023|Idaho News|0 Comments

Idaho experiencing fewer calls for help transitioning to new Luma business system

The state of Idaho is experiencing fewer human resources and supply chain management issues as state agencies and employees gain confidence in the new wide scale state business system called [...]

2023-12-19T12:55:27+00:00December 19th, 2023|Idaho News|0 Comments

Which company will run mental health care for Idaho Medicaid? Legal fights look for answer

After months of legal battles, Idaho is still planning to change which company runs mental health services for approximately one in five Idahoans. The state’s decision over which private company [...]

2023-12-13T12:06:36+00:00December 13th, 2023|Idaho News|0 Comments

Idaho health department wants state’s attorney general to pay $119K in legal bills

Earlier this year, top staffers for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare hired outside lawyers to sue Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador. They sought to stop his wide-reaching civil [...]

2023-11-29T09:59:07+00:00November 29th, 2023|Idaho News|0 Comments

Idaho lawmakers evaluate how to financially respond after audit into state health department

Idaho state lawmakers on the Legislature’s powerful budget committee are mulling how they’ll respond to an audit that found flaws in how the state health department distributed $72 million in [...]

2023-11-09T15:26:28+00:00November 9th, 2023|Idaho News|0 Comments

​​How an Idaho children’s facility got away with firing whistleblowers of child abuse

This story was first published by InvestigateWest on Nov. 7, 2023. Earlier this year, two whistleblowers who triggered a state investigation into Cornerstone Cottage, an Idaho youth facility where they [...]

2023-11-08T15:20:28+00:00November 8th, 2023|Idaho News|0 Comments

Idaho legislators gear up for 2024 session with meetings on budget, revenue reports

Idaho legislators will set the stage for the upcoming 2024 legislative session during a series of seven meetings at the Idaho State Capitol in Boise over the next two weeks.  [...]

2023-10-31T14:05:30+00:00October 31st, 2023|Idaho News|0 Comments

Only 4 in 10 Idahoans who qualify for WIC are on the program. How officials plan to change that.

Hailey Martinez, 28, a mother of four children, says everything she does is for her kids.  But she wasn’t sure she would have more than one child initially, since she [...]

2023-10-20T12:08:18+00:00October 20th, 2023|Idaho News|0 Comments
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