INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH CARE v. BD. OF CTY. COM'RS

No. 15416.

702 P.2d 795 (1985)

108 Idaho 757

INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH CARE, INC., a nonprofit Utah corporation, dba Primary Children's Medical Center, Plaintiffs, and Rex L. Roper and Ann Marie Roper, husband and wife, and Nathan R. Roper, their minor son, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CARIBOU COUNTY, Idaho, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Idaho.

June 17, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Bruce Larson, Soda Springs, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Clyde G. Nelson and Gary L. Spackman, Soda Springs, for defendant-respondent.


SHEPARD, Justice.

This case arises from a hospital's claim against Caribou County for care rendered to allegedly indigent residents of the county. The county settled its case with the hospital and now seeks reimbursement from the parents of the infant patient. The central issue presented involves the nature of the county's right to be reimbursed by the patient and the patient's parents.

Nathan Roper was born in Caribou County with a herniated diaphragm, for...

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