Anthem Inc. shouldn’t be permitted to buy Cigna Corp. and Aetna Inc. should be blocked from acquiring Humana Inc., the American Medical Association said in a letter Wednesday to the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division.
Starting Nov. 1, courts, probation and parole officers and community correction managers were able to begin referring eligible felons to designated drug and mental health treatment centers instead of to jail or prison.
Hundreds of homes and businesses in a central Indiana city hit hard by flash flooding seven years ago could face hefty jumps in their insurance costs if updated federal flood plain maps are approved.
Advantage Health Solutions was placed under the supervision of the Indiana Department of Insurance on Friday after the company lost $46.3 million during the first eight months of the year and decided to terminate its Medicare Advantage business.
The Indianapolis-based transportation insurer topped analyst expectation with its third-quarter results.
The prices health insurers charge Hoosiers on the Obamacare exchange will drop more than in any other state next year. But for most Hoosiers, that’s bad news. Lower average premiums statewide means smaller tax subsidies statewide to reduce the cost of Obamacare policies.
Adjusted earnings of 34 cents per share missed the expectations of analysts who follow the Carmel-based insurance holding company.
Shares in Anthem Inc., the nation's third-largest health insurer by market value, dropped Wednesday after the company’s 2015 profit outlook fell short of estimates.
Anthem’s third-quarter profit rose nearly 4 percent as it added 174,000 health plan members. Its Medicaid, local employer and national employer segments all grew, although its individual business saw losses.
Shares in Anthem Inc. and Cigna Corp., which agreed to a $48 billion deal in July, continued to slide Thursday after presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said mergers in the industry deserve more scrutiny.
Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Wednesday that the planned $48B deal could stifle competition between health insurers, including in the early battleground state of New Hampshire.
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell set a target of 10 million people enrolled and paying their premiums by the end of next year—about half the enrollment that was originally predicted.
Hillary Clinton said she would give close scrutiny to health-insurance industry mergers like those proposed this year by Anthem Inc. and Aetna Inc., part of the Democratic presidential candidate’s latest policy plans.
Anthem Inc. CEO Joseph Swedish and Aetna Inc. CEO Mark Bertolini will tell federal lawmakers Tuesday that the deals are necessary to succeed in a changing health-care landscape.
Jackie, a terrier mix from Indianapolis who ingested the contents of a junk drawer, is vying with a tape-eating cat and other reckless animals for the most unusual pet insurance claim of the year.
Four of the 10 metro areas that will see the biggest decrease in competition from the Anthem-Cigna merger are in Indiana, according to an analysis by the American Medical Association—with Indianapolis facing the second-biggest impact among all of Anthem’s markets nationwide.
The controversial co-founder and former CEO of life insurance giant Conseco Inc. (now CNO Financial Group Inc.) spearheaded the purchase of a small life insurance company operated out of Texas and plans to gradually build up its operations here.
The market for health-insurance in the U.S. is already so highly concentrated that pending tie-ups among four of the country’s largest insurers risk hurting both consumers and doctors, the American Medical Association said.
Concerns about serious side effects, including fainting, complicate discussions about whether to cover Sprout Pharmaceuticals' Addyi.
The plan is to create an agency that gives undergrads practical experience in insuring everything from campus buildings to Butler bulldog mascot Blue III, known as Trip.
