Tag: Idaho

BOISE, Idaho - The state's Medicaid program, among other things, froze payments to home medical equipment providers for three weeks in June as a way to end its fiscal year in the black. "It's not the Medicaid recipient's fault, so we're not going to allow them to suffer at all," said Mike Colbath, the operations manager at Eagle Rock Oxygen in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and president of the Big Sky Association of Medical Equipment Suppliers (Big Sky AMES), in late May. "We're just going to hold our breath....