Tx:Team has always run its business by sending its therapists to wherever patients are—rather than wooing them into its own facilities. Now, financial pressures from Obamacare and cash-strapped employers are pushing all health care providers to do the same.
Indiana won’t put itself on the marijuana-friendly map this year, as a medical marijuana bill authored by Democratic Sen. Karen Tallian is unlikely to go further than a committee hearing.
An estimated 40,000 Hoosiers who already bought health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges now must end those plans and enroll in the expanded Healthy Indiana Plan. Otherwise, they’ll be on the hook to pay back thousands of dollars in Obamacare tax credits.
Brian Neale, 37, health care policy director for the Office of Gov. Mike Pence, is at the forefront of Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0, the governor's recently approved initiative to expand health care to more than 350,000 uninsured Hoosiers.
Donetta Gee-Weiler, 36, a former labor and deliver nurse, fills the key role of vice president of women’s & children’s services at Community Health Network.
Tristan Coram, 34, research scientist for Dow AgroSciences, works to boost global crop production.
Adlai Chester, 34, chief financial officer of Mainstreet, juggles finances for more than $1 billion in post-acute health care properties.
Dr. Gaurav Arora, 39, is chief medical officer for Indiana University Health Saxony Hospital in Fishers.
In a cost-cutting move, Indiana University Health plans to lay off nearly 100 workers as Morgan Hospital stops admitting overnight patients April 1.
Novartis AG is racing to establish itself in the market for new treatments for psoriasis ahead of competing drugs by Amgen Inc. and Eli Lilly and Co. in the United States.
The Indianapolis-based health insurer hiked the quarterly dividend it pays shareholders nearly 43 percent after reporting fourth-quarter results.
The top Democrat in the Indiana Senate is applauding the federal approval of Gov. Mike Pence's proposal for expansion of the Healthy Indiana Plan.
Federal officials have approved Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s plan to provide health insurance to lower-income Hoosiers, despite provisions that require some participants to pay part of the premium.
Indiana’s health care companies attracted $103.8 million in investments last year, the highest total since attracting 2007. However, all but $3 million of last year’s investments came during the first six months of the year and Indiana continued to lag other Midwest states.
When the U.S. Supreme Court hands down its ruling on Obamacare’s tax credits, it could zap nearly $1 billion from Hoosiers’ finances. In fact, Hoosiers buyers on Obamacare’s exchanges have more to lose, as a percentage of their incomes, than the residents of all states other than Alaska and Mississippi.
Bills aiming to reduce Indiana’s methamphetamine problem by requiring prescriptions for some cold medicines probably won’t be considered in House or Senate committees this session, key lawmakers said.
All signs point to University Hospital’s being shuttered as Indiana University Health goes from three downtown hospitals to two.
Two Democratic lawmakers have filed bills that would allow the use of medical marijuana in Indiana, although neither measure is likely to advance in the Republican-controlled Legislature.
The CEOs of Anthem, Lilly, Zimmer and Hill-Rom tried to woo investors at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference by stressing how they’re broadening business beyond plain-old insurance, pharmaceuticals, implants and hospital beds.
Nearly half of all Hoosier workers covered by employer health plans are now enrolled in high-deductible, consumer-directed health plans, according to a new survey. That means the state is about to pass the point of no return on transforming health care into a real marketplace.
