Idaho State University has hired a national consulting firm to study, and price out, the possible purchase of a for-profit medical school based in Meridian .

As political leaders wrestle with the state’s chronic physicians’ shortage, Idaho State has been looking at acquiring the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine for months. But the $100,000 consulting project doesn’t mean Idaho State is on the verge of making a bid, university President Robert Wagner said.

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