Roche sees more sales success with penny-pinching hospitals
The future of U.S. health care will be about precision and parsimony. And Roche Diagnostics Corp. think its new line of DNA-level testing machines are just what the doctor ordered.
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U.S. sent 800,000 Healthcare.gov customers wrong tax info
The Obama administration says it sent about 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers the wrong tax information, and officials are asking those consumers to delay filing their 2014 taxes.
Feds award indiana $11.8M for home visits program
The funds will support home visits by nurses and others to check on low-income pregnant women and those with young children.
Need a price check on that MRI? Community now wants you to call
Getting upfront price estimates from hospitals has been a nightmare for consumers, but hospitals are starting to give them out more often. Community Health Network is even promoting its price-estimating service on its website.
Former St. Francis Beech Grove hospital attracts suitors
Franciscan St. Francis Health has finally found a buyer for its former hospital campus in Beech Grove. Trouble is, it’s found two.
Indy health care IT company plans 35-job expansion
Healthx, which operates a web-based platform for health care payers, will invest $200,000 to equip its current, 18,000-square-foot headquarters in the Precedent office park.
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.
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.
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.