Cancer center gets reprieve on rule

Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson

A view of the Hi-Line Sletten Cancer Center along West 13th Street this morning.

A new federal requirement that could have caused serious problems for the Hi-Line cancer center in Havre has been delayed for a year, with rural and small-treatment center representatives being added to the panel that will review the requirement.

"This is a step in the right direction, " Northern Montana Health Care Foundation Executive Director Christen Obresley said this morning.

The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servic...