Health care

Montana lawmakers will decide in the coming months what happens to health coverage for tens of thousands of people.

The state will soon offer a new drug treatment program and housing assistance through Medicaid.

Medical debt will no longer impact your credit score. The Biden administration Tuesday finalized rules that will remove the debt from credit reports.

Tescha Hawley learned that hospital bills from her son’s birth had been sent to debt collectors only when she checked her credit score while attending a home-buying class. The new mom’s plans to buy a house stalled.

Much of the country continues to see big declines in drug overdose deaths, but deaths in Montana were virtually unchanged.

A Whitefish doctor was sentenced to six months of jail and another six months of house arrest for defrauding Medicare and other federal health programs.

A new report by investigative news nonprofit ProPublica centers on allegations of misconduct by one of Montana’s most influential doctors. Oncologist Thomas Weiner saw thousands of patients at St. Peter’s Health in Helena for two dozen years before the hospital fired him in 2020.

A tuberculosis case has been reported in Flathead County. Local health officials say there is no risk to the public.

More than 3 million adults in nine states would be at immediate risk of losing their health coverage should the GOP reduce the extra federal Medicaid funding that’s enabled states to widen eligibility, according to KFF, a health information nonprofit.

If you have cucumbers in your fridge, you may want to throw them out. Several Montanans have contracted salmonella from cucumbers grown in Mexico.