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Holcomb urges Congressional support of jeopardized GOP health care bill
The fate of the Republicans’ health care bill hangs in the balance, but Gov. Eric Holcomb is giving it his support.
The fate of the Republicans’ health care bill hangs in the balance, but Gov. Eric Holcomb is giving it his support.
The Carmel-based insurance holding company on Tuesday replaced its senior vice president for marketing and communications and the leaders of two of its three insurance subsidiaries.
Indiana officials are sounding alarm bells about a plan by Republicans in Congress to cut Medicaid spending.
Anthem CEO Joseph Swedish this week talked with President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price about elements of the GOP plan that he’d like to see “enhanced.”
Fast-growing business lines are hard to come by in the insurance industry. Locally based OneAmerica Financial Partners Inc. has one on its hands, and it’s beefing up efforts to capitalize.
MDwise said it could not reach an agreement with the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration’s Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning over payment rates for the Hoosier Care Connect program.
The meeting between the president and U.S. health insurers on Monday was a chance for the industry to weigh in on promised changes to the Affordable Care Act that are beginning to come into focus.
Doubters about the $48 billion Anthem-Cigna merger have been in abundance from the start—both on antitrust grounds and on concerns over cultural fit.
In Lilly’s partnership with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, the not-for-profit insurer gets additional rebates if fewer patients using Lilly's diabetes treatment Trulicity meet blood sugar goals than expected.
Cigna Corp. and Anthem Inc. are trading accusations of harassment and sabotage in competing lawsuits as the two health companies feud publicly in the wake of a stalled $48 billion merger.
Baldwin & Lyon’s said gross premiums written during the fourth quarter totaled a record $104.9 million, 7.2 percent higher than the fourth quarter of 2015.
Indianapolis-based Anthem Inc. on Wednesday won a court ruling blocking Cigna Corp. from terminating a proposed merger between the health insurers until a judge could weigh arguments over the faltering deal at an April 10 hearing.
In the lawsuit, Anthem blasted Cigna, accusing it of repeated efforts to sabotage their proposed merger.
The collapse of one potential mega-merger and the uncertain future of the other could hurt shoppers on the Affordable Care Act exchanges next year by leaving them with even fewer options and potentially higher prices.
Indianapolis-based Anthem responded almost immediately Tuesday by saying Cigna does not have the right to cancel the deal.
The Humana-Aetna deal was one of two mergers that would have reshaped the U.S. health insurance landscape. Both were rejected by federal judges as anticompetitive. Anthem hasn't given up on its deal—a $48 billion pact to acquire Cigna—and is pressing ahead with an appeal.
Anthem filed a notice of appeal on Thursday after a federal judge blocked its $48 billion deal to buy Cigna Corp.
While Anthem said it was “significantly disappointed” by the judge’s order and would seek an expedited appeal, Cigna said only that it “intends to carefully review the opinion and evaluate its options in accordance with the merger agreement.”
The deal, along with Aetna Inc.’s proposed tie-up with Humana Inc., which was blocked last month, was set to reduce the ranks of big U.S. health insurers to three from five and make Anthem the largest by membership.
CNO Financial Group Inc. saw a big increase in profit in the fourth quarter, but not enough to meet Wall Street expectations.