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Health Care Reform
Are hospitals on trajectory to pair up?
June 1, 2013
J.K. WallIndianapolis-area hospitals are undergoing such profound and permanent changes that some predict, eventually the four major
hospital systems will merge and shrink down to two.
MoreNew WellPoint CEO Joe Swedish thrives on complexity
May 25, 2013
J.K. WallJoe Swedish, a career hospital executive, is now two months into his job at the helm of Indianapolis-based WellPoint, the
nation’s second-largest health insurer. In his first interview since starting work, Swedish indicated he’s taking
his time to learn the people and the culture of the vast organization he now leads.
MoreForecast: Cash to reign in health care
May 20, 2013
J.K. WallWith premiums for health insurance likely to head north next year as President Obama’s health care reform law fully
takes effect, both individuals and employers will pay for more health care out of their own funds and buy less insurance.
MoreStudy rebuts hospitals' argument on Medicare, rising costs
May 13, 2013
Rather than raising prices on private health insurers to make up for inadequate payments from the government, hospitals across
the country have been raising prices just because they can, according to a new study.
MoreFeds scrutinize nursing home buying spree
April 27, 2013
J.K. WallIndiana’s county-owned hospitals have rushed to acquire nursing homes in the past two years, opening a revenue stream
for both the hospitals and the long-term-care facilities. But the additional federal revenue that has driven these purchases
could come under threat.
MoreEmployer health coverage on 10-year fall, study says
April 11, 2013
Bloomberg NewsIndiana, Michigan and South Carolina saw the steepest declines in employer-backed coverage from 2000 to 2011, according to
a study released Thursday.
MoreIU Health to chop $1 billion off costs
April 6, 2013
J.K. WallEven though Obamacare likely will expand health insurance coverage to an extra 500,000 Hoosiers over the next few years, IU
Health expects per-patient reimbursements to fall as the federal government, employers and patients all push back on sky-high
health care costs.
MoreCOLWELL: Indianapolis strategizes for health care reform
April 6, 2013
AnnJeanette ColwellThe recent flurry of big announcements portends well.
MoreCrunching the numbers on Obamacare
March 30, 2013
J.K. WallThe biggest changes from President Obama’s 2010 health reform law take effect nine months from now, so many Hoosier
employers have started crunching detailed numbers to cost out their options.
MoreStudy: Inpatient declines to hit all hospitals
March 11, 2013
J.K. WallOne explanation for Indiana University Health’s decision to delay its Methodist Hospital expansion is that new “value-based”
payment models appear to be pushing down hospitalization rates, according to a study released Friday.
MoreAnalysis: Feds likely to cut Medicaid support
March 11, 2013
J.K. WallA fellow conservative provided some support for Gov. Mike Pence’s claim that an expansion of Medicaid will become a
“baby
elephant” that eats up larger and larger shares of state resources.
MoreIndy hospitals healthy despite sequester
March 4, 2013
J.K. WallWhile rural hospitals face sharp reductions in their operating incomes, most of the four major hospital systems based in Indianapolis
will see only a marginal impact on their finances.
MoreSenate advances telemedicine payments
March 4, 2013
J.K. WallThe Indiana Senate voted unanimously last week to require the Indiana Medicaid program to pay home health agencies, rural
health clinics and federally qualified health centers for doing medical consultations, diagnoses and monitoring using videoconferencing,
telephones or computers.
MoreHospital systems forcing doctors to choose sides
March 2, 2013
J.K. WallThe five-year trend of physician practices marrying up with hospitals has made it harder and harder for independent physician
practices to spend time in more than one hospital system.
MoreMilliman: HIP could save $156M a year
February 25, 2013
J.K. WallThe actuarial firm hired by the state estimates savings of about $156 million per year if Indiana uses its Healthy Indiana
Plan to expand Medicaid coverage.
MoreLegislators struggle to nail down cost of health care expansion
February 24, 2013
Associated PressThe cost of health care for an additional 400,000 low income residents is something nobody in the Indiana Statehouse seems
to be able to agree upon this year, even as the crucial decision about whether to expand Medicaid bears down on lawmakers
midway through their annual session.
MorePence still angling to use Healthy Indiana Plan to expand Medicaid
February 23, 2013
J.K. WallDecisions by other Republican governors to support Medicaid expansion is increasing pressure on Indiana's governor to do the
same.
MoreUPDATE: Primary care at heart of hospitals' deal
February 18, 2013
J.K. WallCommunity Health Network’s new partnership with Wishard Health Services will create a primary-care behemoth that the
systems argue will put them in the best position possible to handle the changes coming from federal health reform.
MoreCommunity, Wishard to form joint operating agreement
February 18, 2013
J.K. WallThe partnership will create a new board to oversee and coordinate the operations of both systems, according to internal messages
sent to Community stakeholders. Community Health CEO Bryan Mills will be the CEO of the new joint-operating entity.
MoreWellPoint shares tumble on surprising CEO hire
February 13, 2013
J.K. WallThe Indianapolis-based health insurer saw its stock tumble as much as 4.8 percent Wednesday morning after it unexpectedly
named career hospital executive Joe Swedish to be its next CEO.
MoreQ&A
February 11, 2013
J.K. WallDon Kelso is executive director of the Indiana Rural Health Association. The trade group is trying to help its members navigate the changes coming from health care reform and the financial pressures being created by federal budget cuts. The association recently launched a service for its members called SuiteStats, which is data-management software to help hospital executives identify areas ripe for cost-cutting.
Pressure rises on lawmakers to expand Medicaid
February 11, 2013
J.K. WallUp until now, Gov. Mike Pence and his fellow Republicans in the Legislature have been playing a game of poker with the Obama administration over a potential expansion of Indiana’s Medicaid program. But all of a sudden, Indiana’s hand just got quite a bit weaker.
Community taps Walgreens for health reform help
February 4, 2013
J.K. WallIn the era of health care reform, hospitals will face two new challenges: They will need to run higher-volume, lower-margin
businesses, and they’ll be on the hook financially for what patients do even when they’re not receiving health
care. Community Health Network’s new partnership with Walgreens’ Take Care Clinics is designed to help address
both issues.
MoreZimmer highly exposed to health-reform risk
January 28, 2013
J.K. WallShares of Zimmer Holdings Inc. have generated impressive returns of 23 percent in the past year and some 2013 product launches
could juice those results even further. But the Warsaw-based maker of orthopedic implants is also the most-exposed company
in its industry to two key elements of health care reform: the medical device tax and bundled payments.
MoreHealth insurance changes daunting for Indiana employers
January 19, 2013
Scott OlsonA portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requiring companies in 2014 to begin offering health insurance
to more workers is causing a lot of anxiety.
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I remenber, watching the toll road, being built, through South Bend, when I was 10 years old. I believe, back then that it was estimated, that the toll road, would be paid for in 20 years and then it would be free. I am now 71, what happened? Since the power is in the people, by that, I mean that, we the people are in total control of everything. I, suggest that no one ever use the toll road again, let it go broke. We the people can control the price of everything, from groceries to gas, if we would just do it. If we don't pay the asking price, the sellers will lower the price and if we wait awhile, they will lower the price to what we accept as reasonable. I would like to know why a highway like interstate 94, is so well maintained, a much better highway, than the toll road, but has no tolls. I would also like to know why, a sitting governor, with a term limit, maximum of eight years, can lease, public property, for 75 years. Even though I have transponders in both of my trucks and will not be affected by the increase, I have been and will contine to avoid using the toll road. I make many trips from northern Indiana to Chicago, every year, and I prefer the better highway, I94!