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Billings Clinic - Logan Health becomes One Sky Health
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Montana Free Press
Billings Clinic announces new name: One Sky Health
Billings Clinic has a new name. The nonprofit healthcare organization has operated in a combined capacity with Logan Health since 2023. Logan Health owns hospitals in Kalispell, Whitefish and several small communities on the Hi-Line, while Billings Clinic operates in Billings and runs satellite locations in Bozeman, Red Lodge and Columbus, among other communities. Under one administrative roof, the organization has more than 25 clinics and hospitals and 9,000 employees throughout Montana and northern Wyoming, according to a press release announcing the change.
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Licensed counselor in Billings sentenced for Medicaid fraud
HELENA, Mont. – A licensed professional counselor in Billings was sentenced to spend three years in prison and repay $600,000 for years of fraudulent Medicaid bills related to sessions that “did not occur,” the Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced. A judge found her guilty on October 22 and sentenced her for “Medicaid fraud” and “making a false claim to a public agency.” Her crimes were connected to actions between January 2022 and September 2025, when she billed Medicaid for sessions with “patients she never treated and for sessions that did not occur,” Knudsen wrote in a press release about her sentencing. She was sentenced to pay the state $603,719.66 in restitution and serve a 10-year suspended sentence after completing her three-year prison term at the Montana Women’s Prison. She is also excluded from billing any federal health insurance program for the length of the sentence.
Montana Free Press
Doc expects data center to lead to costly medical problems
Sign up for the free Billings This Week newsletter and stay in the loop on Billings city government, public school meetings, business news and upcoming entertainment and events. Good morning. This week, we have stark projections from a local pulmonologist regarding the medical costs associated with the development of a...
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Flu season is here, so is the vaccine
The calendar says October, but already there are places in the western U.S. reporting an abnormally high number of early flu cases. “I think when people hear that we do see an uptick in phone calls and people interested in the vaccine” said Breda Koch, the Immunization Program Manager at Riverstone Health. She told Yellowstone Public Radio a seemingly early start to the flu season in parts of the country means it is time to get vaccinated.
Montana Free Press
Judge gives state green light to start work on Laurel psychiatric facility
Montana can begin construction on a forensic psychiatric facility just west of Laurel, despite pushback from town residents and officials, a District Court judge ruled this week. Yellowstone County District Court Judge Ed Zink issued an order Tuesday dissolving the preliminary injunction that’s been in place since August, which halted...
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Billings Clinic ends gender affirming care, patients seek new providers
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Big Sky Rehabilitation Hospital expands in Billings as demand grows
Billings, Mont. — Big Sky Rehabilitation Hospital in Billings expanded from 17 private patient rooms to 40 as it saw growing demand for rehabilitation care. The hospital said the expansion went beyond adding beds. It also includes a more than 4,000-square-foot therapy gym where patients work on mobility and daily skills they would need after returning home.
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Billings Clinic seeks dismissal of website tracking class action lawsuit – Billings Gazette
The Trump administration is halting Obamacare coverage for more than 760,000 enrollees it believes were improperly signed up. Billings Clinic has moved to dismiss a class action lawsuit filed against the nonprofit in July that alleged the hospital system shared users’ private health information with third parties, such as advertisers, when they visited its website.
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St. Vincent Regional Hospital building construction reaches half of final height
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Billings Counselor Ordered to Pay Nearly $48,000 in Medicaid Fraud Case
BILLINGS, Mont. — A Billings counselor has been ordered to pay nearly $48,000 to the state after pleading guilty to charges stemming from fraudulent Medicaid claims, according to the Montana Department of Justice. Melvera Parker, 69, pleaded guilty to felony Medicaid fraud and making a false claim to a...