Blue Cross Blue Shield Montana

Montana is signaling it might step away from an innovative way of setting the prices its public employee health plan pays hospitals for services, an approach that has saved the state millions of dollars and become a model for health plans nationwide.

HELENA, Mont. — When the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation began offering telehealth services in Montana in early February, the nation’s largest nonprofit addiction treatment provider promised quality care for far-flung residents without their even having to leave home.

A bill that would require pharmaceutical companies to disclose prescription drug cost information in Montana drew support from a wide range of health care officials Friday, and skepticism from others who don’t believe it would lower prices as intended.

HELENA, Mont. — Incoming Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signaled he won’t continue a statewide mask mandate in place since July, though he said he plans to wear a mask himself and get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Montana’s four largest health insurance companies are voluntarily waiving customer costs for coronavirus testing. "It’s just the right thing to do,"...

As Congress works on overhauling health care, the company with perhaps the most at stake in Montana is Blue Cross and Blue Shield. It's a division of...

Billings Clinic launched a pilot project to help rural primary care providers deliver mental or behavioral health care to their patients.“Montana is at…