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Health plan provider to cut most of its workforce

Advantage Health Solutions Inc., which was was placed under the supervision of the Indiana Department of Insurance in November, plans to part ways with most of its workers, the Indianapolis-based company said Friday in a notice to the state.

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Feds want to cut off funding for Carmel home health firm

Carmel-based Nightingale Home Healthcare Inc. is trying to keep from being kicked out of the federal Medicare program for allegedly putting patients in “immediate jeopardy,” according to documents in a bankruptcy reorganization case the company filed in December.

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U.S. to limit Obamacare sign-up periods to help insurers

The U.S. government will limit a process that allowed people to sign up for health insurance under Obamacare outside of the normal enrollment period, after insurers complained that the special periods were letting people into the program only when they got sick.

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Teen births fall in Indiana, nation

Teen births have fallen to a record low in the United States and dropped sharply in Indiana too, a development that could save taxpayers millions of dollars in public health services and other assistance.

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GOP plots revamp of medical malpractice law

Patients who have been injured or killed as the result of negligence by Indiana hospitals and physicians could win more cash under proposed changes to Indiana’s Medical Malpractice Act.

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