Nutex Health, a for-profit company from Houston that operates a network of micro-hospitals around the country, wants to expand into the Treasure Valley. But Idaho’s largest health insurer, the nonprofit Blue Cross of Idaho, is determined to stop it. Or at least put guardrails around it.
Mike Reynoldson, a spokesperson for Blue Cross, said Tuesday before the Senate Commerce and Human Resources Committee that “one entity” in Idaho was exploiting the federal No Surprises Act — designed to protect patients from unexpected and exorbitant medical bills when receiving out-of-network emergency care — to overcharge insurers. Reynoldson was speaking of Nutex Health.
“They’ve arrived in Idaho, and they’re expanding,” he told legislators…