Montana State Auditor and Commissioner of Securities and Insurance James Brown helped to stop more than $5 million in unsupported payouts by Mountain Health Co-Op, a second health insurer impacted by an Obamacare fraud scheme previously exposed by the auditor’s office. The treatment and billing scheme targeted vulnerable native communities in the Treasure State. The scheme abused an Obamacare

Lustre received 4/10” of rain on Tuesday, July 14, which was welcome for the crops. Lightening storms have been rather bright at night! The EMB Harvest Festival is different this year, on Aug. 30-31. The speakers are Dan and Melody Nickel (Sharon Skillman’s sister), who have been in the states a couple months and will be returning to Ireland shortly after they come here. We extend condolences

Less than a year after graduating from the University of Montana’s Alexander Blewett III School of Law, Ericka Camposan earned admission to practice in every tribal court in Montana. It’s a rare professional achievement that many attorneys never complete. Camposan said the law school’s Indian law curriculum, faculty connections and professional network gave her the foundation to serve

Department of Public Health and Human Services director Charlie Brereton reminds Montanans that new Medicaid Expansion community engagement requirements took effect on July 1. Most Medicaid Expansion members aged 19-64 who are not excluded must complete and document at least 80 hours of qualifying community engagement activities each month, which will be reviewed at their next redetermination

and she plans to continue in that role this fall. “It should be pretty exciting,” Wittak said of the upcoming volleyball season. While officiating, she said she enjoys being around people, making new friends and maintaining old friendships.

Attorney General Austin Knudsen has announced the Montana Department of Justice awarded four Children’s Advocacy Centers with nearly $150,000 in grant funds to help improve their care for child survivors of crime and abuse. The funding comes from a Johnson & Johnson settlement that resolved allegations the company manufactured, marketed and knowingly sold baby powder tainted with carcinogenic