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.
A Chicago company that won a massive judgment against Indianapolis businessman Alan Symons, his family and related companies accuses the 66-year-old of “hide-the-ball” conduct.
The Indianapolis-based transportation insurer said the decreases in second-quarter revenue were part of a strategic shift to reduce some lines of insurance.
NCA Group Inc., an insurance-claims services firm that has been based in Fishers since its founding in 1984, has reached an agreement to be acquired by Hammond, Louisiana-based Worley Claims Services.
CNO Financial Group Inc. on Wednesday reported second-quarter profit of $46.8 million, down 40 percent from the same quarter of 2014.
Indianapolis-based Anthem Inc. reported Wednesday morning that it earned $859.1 million during the three months ended June 30, an increase of 17.5 percent over the same quarter of 2014.
Anthem Inc.’s bid to become the largest health insurer in history is setting up one of the biggest debt offerings backing a takeover.
Seeing mergers like Anthem’s planned acquisition of Cigna Corp., hospitals could decide that striking deals of their own could improve their negotiating power over medical reimbursements.
This 1992 profile of then-CEO L. Ben Lytle chronicles the evolution of the company—then known as The Associated Group—from a sleepy health insurer operating in only one state into an acquisitive, aggressive business with national ambitions.
After a long and stormy courtship, Anthem Inc. announced Friday morning that it will pay $188 per share to acquire Cigna Corp., valuing the deal at $54.2 billion in cash, stock and the assumption of debt.
The next challenge for Anthem Inc. in its quest to marry Cigna Corp. is to get its legal guardians to allow the ceremony to happen.
Anthem’s $54 billion bid for rival insurer Cigna is twice the size of the next-largest acquisition in the Indianapolis area, which occurred nearly a decade ago.
