McCloskey Construction Inc., of Spokane, began work this week on a new two-story, 12,300-square-foot professional office building that will be occupied partly by physical and occupation therapy clinics. The building, which is expected to cost $2.5 milli

Premera Blue Cross has eliminated 33 positions in its Spokane operation as part of a larger restructuring in which the Mountlake Terrace, Wash-based health plan provider has confirmed the layoff of 165 employees in all. Tom Messick, vice president and g

Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories LLC, the Spokane-based national reference laboratory, had another strong year in 2015, experiencing requisition volume growth of 7 percent, says Patty Sipes, PAML's senior vice president of sales, marketing and

In its year-end financial results, CHS reported a fourth-quarter loss of $83 million, or 73 cents per share, compared with net income of $100 million, or 88 cents per share, in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue in the fourth quarter also fell slightly to

Health insurance costs per employee have risen by close to two-thirds over the past 10 years, and employers have more reasons than ever to try to control health care expenses. Indeed, for a long time, many of them have understood the importance of impleme