Anthem finishes deal for Medicaid provider Simply Healthcare
Anthem Inc. has closed its purchase of Florida Medicaid managed care provider Simply Healthcare Holdings Inc. for an estimated $1 billion.
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Health care IT firm plans to add 43 employees
Stratice Healthcare LLC, which sells an electronic ordering platform for medical supplies, landed an incentives agreement with the state to increase employment at its Carmel headquarters.
Six central Indiana dental employees reach plea deals
Prosecutors have struck plea agreements with six former employees of an Anderson dental clinic in connection with a Medicaid fraud investigation.
House plan gives Evansville IU med school $36 million
A spending plan released Monday by Indiana House Republicans includes nearly twice as much money as Gov. Mike Pence proposed for a medical school campus in downtown Evansville.
Analysis: Nursing home moratorium would yield smaller-than-expected savings
The Legislative Services Agency predicts a three-year ban on new skilled nursing beds would save the state $2.2 million—not the $24.6 million reported by the state in December.
Lawmakers aim to restrict access to meth ingredients
The leaders of Indiana communities hit hard by methamphetamine are arguing for a state law requiring prescriptions to buy cold and allergy pills.
UPDATE: Anthem offers 2 years of free credit monitoring
The Indianapolis-based insurer is offering the monitoring and identity-theft repair as it continues to investigate how hackers broke into a database storing information for about 80 million people.
Former Lilly partner ordered to pay $2.3M to Actos user
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. was ordered by a jury Thursday to pay more than $2.3 million in damages to a former teacher who blamed the company’s Actos diabetes drug for causing his bladder cancer.
Insurance commissioners to lead Anthem investigation
The New Hampshire Insurance Department said Thursday that it will work with insurance departments in other states that also have significant Anthem business, including Indiana, California, Missouri and Maine.
How Eli Lilly CEO Lechleiter pulled company out of long slide
After weathering a barrage of patent expirations, the pharmaceutical giant has restocked its pipeline and is positioned to grow.
Anthem’s IT system had cracks before hack
Anthem Inc. spends $50 million a year and employs 200 people to keep its information technology secure. Yet the Indianapolis-based health insurance giant still left itself vulnerable to hackers on key fronts leading up to the theft of 80 million consumer records.
Cheapest Obamacare plan stealing exchange customers from Anthem
A sleepy season for Obamacare sign-ups will end on Sunday will overall enrollment almost exactly where insurers predicted it would be. But low-priced plans, such as Ohio-based CareSource, have scooped up far more customers than expected.
CNO earnings in line with analyst expectations
CNO Financial Group Inc. saw a decline in revenue and profit in the fourth quarter, but the results met or exceeded Wall Street predictions.
Massage therapy legislation passed by Indiana House
House Bill 1360, authored by Rep. Sue Errington, D-Muncie, applies the standards of practice of health professions to certified massage therapists.
More of St. Vincent’s profits ‘ascending’ to its owner
St. Vincent’s operations produced a healthy profit margin of 10 percent last year, but nearly half of that money—$134 million—was shipped to Ascension Health, St. Vincent’s parent organization. That’s nearly 5 percent of what Hoosiers and their health plans pay for care at St. Vincent each year.
Anthem sued over massive data breach by California consumer
Anthem Inc. faces what may be the first of many consumer lawsuits a day after disclosing that hackers obtained data on tens of millions of current and former customers and employees.
Hackers see rewarding targets in health care companies
Experts say health care companies can provide many entry points into their systems for crooks to steal data. And once criminals get that information, they can pull off far more extensive and lucrative schemes.
Anthem to tell customers within 2 weeks if they were hacked
Anthem Inc., the second-biggest U.S. health insurer, said it’s going to take about 10 to 14 days to figure out who was affected by a data breach and begin notifying those people.
Anthem data breach already sparks class-action lawsuit
At least one Indianapolis law firm already is preparing a lawsuit against Anthem Inc., after hackers stole personal information on as many as 80 million customers. The breach is certain to spur much more litigation.
Cuban immigrant gets 6 years for theft of Lilly drugs
A Cuban immigrant was sentenced Wednesday to more than six years in prison for his role in the 2010 heist of a Connecticut warehouse in which the robbers filled a tractor-trailer with more than $50 million worth of Eli Lilly and Co. pharmaceuticals.