Whether so-called micro-hospitals can succeed financially might depend on whether they can meet Medicare’s definition of a hospital: a medical facility that dedicates the bulk of its services to inpatient care.
The Carmel-based insurer said it experienced some “infrequent, but severe” loss events during the quarter.
Nevada officials on Monday decried the Indianapolis-based insurer’s decision to pull its plans from three of the state’s more populous counties only weeks after it said it would not offer plans in the state’s other 14 counties.
The federal government says readmissions are often unnecessary and cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars a year.
Purdue’s Board of Trustees approved $30 million toward the project and the College of Veterinary Medicine is expected to seek $5 million in private donations.
A local company that leases Google Glass devices and sells software on top of it expects revenue to jump from an estimated $1.4 million this year to about $11 million next year.
Drug and medical device makers would pay higher user fees under legislation the U.S. Senate approved and sent to the president on Thursday.
Global pharmaceutical companies including Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. are heading into smaller cities and rural areas to learn about the health care needs of about 70 percent of India’s population.
The transitional care hospital, which has lost money in two of the past three years, will reopen next year as Community Rehabilitation Hospital South.
President Donald Trump's drug commission has called on him to declare a national emergency to deal with the country's opioid drug epidemic.
The White House is insisting that the Senate resume efforts to repeal and replace the nation’s health care law, signaling that President Donald Trump stands ready to end required payments to insurers this week to let “Obamacare implode” and force congressional action.
The surprise move sent shares of cigarette stocks plummeting Friday morning.
Republican Senator John McCain joined with two of his GOP colleagues to block a stripped-down Obamacare repeal bill early Friday, thwarting the party’s months-long effort to pass health legislation.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is not ruling out a tax increase should congressional Republican efforts to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law result in cuts to Medicaid, which funds the state's HIP 2.0 program.
The two firms that are merging, Brownsburg-based Hometown Insurance and Zionsville-based Ward Insurance Services, have a combined 16 employees.
The Carmel-based insurance holding company said total collected premiums were $925 million in the latest quarter, up 7 percent from last year’s second period.
Indianapolis-based Anthem Inc. saw profit grow nearly 10 percent, helped by government business and coverage the health insurer sells to smaller employers.
The Indianapolis-based drugmaker warned that a much-anticipated new drug for rheumatoid arthritis might be delayed another 18 months.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb says the law is “crumbling under its own weight” and that people in as many as 60 Indiana counties will be left with just one choice for insurance coverage on the marketplace next year.
The deal is Eli Lilly and Co.’s latest push into a growing disease area for such disorders as arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis.
