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Health Insurance
Doctors resume battle with Anthem, health insurers
January 9, 2010
J.K. WallDoctors are pushing again to strengthen their hands in contract negotiations with health insurers, especially market leader
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
MoreWellPoint stock surging on positive analyst forecasts
January 7, 2010
IBJ Staff and Associated PressThe long-term outlook for health care reform is uncertain, but many analysts are expecting big health insurers like Indianapolis-based
WellPoint to benefit in 2010.
MoreGrass-roots groups prepare to fill gaps in health care reform
January 2, 2010
J.K. WallLegislation set to come out of Washington will not change the most fundamental problems of the health
care system, leaving it up to states, cities and companies to figure out what to do about it.
MoreHealth care reform would push state to hike Medicaid pay to docs
December 12, 2009
IBJ StaffAn actuarial report prepared by the local office of Milliman Inc., a Seattle-based consulting firm, projects
that the state of Indiana would have to hike its Medicaid payments by one-third in order to entice more
doctors into the program.
MoreHealth care reform could drive more people to buy their own insurance
December 5, 2009
IBJ StaffIf Congress passes health care reform, more people will become like Juli Erhart-Graves, whose family spends nearly 18 percent
of its income on health insurance and out-of-pocket medical costs.
MoreSt. Vincent-Novia clinic partnership cuts out insurance middleman
November 28, 2009
J.K. WallThe St. Vincent Health hospital system has joined with Indianapolis-based Novia CareClinics LLC to set up clinics on employers’
campuses, offering health care for their workers with no insurance companies involved.
MoreNew Anthem pay-for-performance program gives docs $3.1M
November 14, 2009
J.K. WallAnthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana is doling out $3.1 million to Indianapolis-area doctors—its first payments
based on a local quality measuring system.
MoreHancock Regional Hospital goes after Geist market
November 14, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinThe $7.8 million medical office building in McCordsville will allow the hospital to tap patients with private insurance.
MoreWellPoint, Obama administration battle over cost of health reform to employers
November 7, 2009
IBJ StaffAt this point in the health reform debate, you have to take numbers from any side with a grain of salt. That said, Indianapolis-based
WellPoint Inc. has done perhaps the only local analysis of how proposed reforms would affect the cost of health insurance
for employers.
MoreHealth insurer Anthem's market share swells
October 31, 2009
J.K. WallIndianapolis-based WellPoint Inc.'s Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield subsidiary claimed 42.5 percent of central Indiana residents
covered by private health insurance
this year, up from 35-percent last year, according to a market research firm.
MoreWellPoint shares flat after profits beat analyst predictions
October 28, 2009
J.K. WallWellPoint Inc.'s third-quarter profits soared above analysts' expectations, but the insurer remains cautious in the face of
the flu and high unemployment.
MoreDoctors balk at Senate attempt to cut waste
October 28, 2009
J.K. WallSome Indianapolis-area doctors fear a bill in the U.S. Senate would botch the way costs for tests and procedures are calculated,
and ultimately
lead to a reimbursement system that works worse than the existing system.
MoreWellPoint's third-quarter profits beat expectations
October 28, 2009
J.K. WallWellPoint Inc.'s third-quarter profits fell 11 percent, the company reported this morning, but still soared above analysts'
expectations.
MoreGoodwill executive to lead national health care board
October 24, 2009
Scott OlsonGoodwill Industries executive Keith Reissaus has been tapped to run Washington, D.C.-based Leapfrog Group, an industry coalition.
Reissaus gained control of health care costs by giving employees incentives to care about their health.
MorePower Breakfast panel debates health care reform
October 17, 2009
As health care legislation
continues to wend its way through Congress, Indianapolis-area industry leaders still harbor strong
opinions about the issue. Five industry insiders discussed how to improve the health care system during
IBJ’s Power Breakfast Sept. 25 at the Westin Indianapolis.
MoreBaucus health reform bill draws fire in Indiana, too
October 17, 2009
IBJ StaffThe health insurance industry’s sudden counterpunch to the Senate version of health reform echoed in Indiana and
opened a key issue for the rest of the debate: Will covering half of the country’s uninsured mean raising premiums for
the 85 percent of Americans who already have insurance?
MoreKALSCHEUR: Doctors eye precautions as reform gains steam
October 17, 2009
Michael KalscheurDoctors are considering their options as health care reform gains momentum.
MoreIndiana Health Information Exchange lands big insurer
October 13, 2009
J.K. WallUnitedHealthcare has become the second health insurer to join Quality Health First, a pay-for-performance program operated
by the Indiana Health Information Exchange, the exchange announced Tuesday.
MoreVIDEOS: IBJ panelists examine needs, options for health-care reform
October 13, 2009
J.K. WallPresenting five video excerpts from a free-wheeling panel discussion about health-care reform featuring five of the city's
top decision-makers. J.K. Wall moderates the IBJ's Power Breakfast, covering tort reform,illegal immigrants, pay models and
insurance companies.
MoreWellPoint memos show job cuts starting with mid-level execs
October 10, 2009
J.K. WallWith a national unemployment rate of nearly 10 percent eroding its customer base, WellPoint Inc. is cutting at least 30
middle-management employees and reshuffling its corporate organization, according to internal memos obtained by IBJ.
MoreBaucus health reform bill would stick Indiana companies with fees
October 10, 2009
IBJ StaffThe health reform bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., would help pay for expanded health insurance coverage
by levying fees of $13 billion a year on the health care industry. The fees would deliver a hefty bill to just
about all of Indiana’s major health care companies. But how they’re reacting to the fees is all over the map.
MoreWellPoint shares partially recover after Thursday plunge
October 9, 2009
J.K. WallShares of WellPoint Inc. partially recovered Friday morning after a plunge was touched off Thursday by gathering momentum
behind health care reform and talk of a windfall-profit tax by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
MoreWeight-loss challenges at local firms raise money for charity
September 19, 2009
IBJ StaffEmployees at five different companies collectively lost 805 pounds over six weeks this summer. They also
raised $805 for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Central Indiana.
MorePolicyholders could pay more under Obama health plan
September 11, 2009
Associated PressIf President Barack Obama gets what he wants in his health care plan — covering all Americans and barring insurers from
denying coverage — some analysts say individuals could wind up paying higher premiums.
MoreSanctions lifted, WellPoint returns to Medicare biz
September 10, 2009
J.K. WallNine months after being suspended as a contractor for the federal Medicare program, WellPoint Inc. is back in the game.
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