April 2, 2013
Bloomberg NewsShares of Indianapolis-based WellPoint rose along with those of other medical insurers Tuesday morning after the U.S. government
reversed a decision to cut a key Medicare payment rate, offering them an increase instead.
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August 7, 2012
Associated PressThe feds may be gaining on GOP governors who've balked at carrying out a key part of the health care overhaul law. Opponents
of the law say they won't set up new private health insurance exchanges. But increasingly it's looking like Washington
will do it for them.
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July 27, 2012
Bloomberg NewsThe Obama administration Thursday announced a partnership with the industry in which WellPoint Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc.
and other insurers may try to share more billing data with the government to root out fraud.
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July 21, 2012
J.K. WallHospital system's health insurance unit has IT infrastructure that will allow physicians to participate in Medicare's shared
savings program.
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June 28, 2012
J.K. WallWhile upholding President Obama’s health care law, the U.S. Supreme Court may have created a way out for states that
do not want to expand their Medicaid programs. Whether Indiana decides to opt out remains to be seen.
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June 28, 2012
Bloomberg NewsThe U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the core of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, preserving most of a law
that would expand insurance to millions of people and transform an industry that makes up 18 percent of the nation’s
economy.
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April 26, 2012
Associated PressMore than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year,
thanks to health care reforms, a research group said Thursday. Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. is expected to return $94
million.
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March 17, 2012
Michelle Burton / Special to IBJConcept is likely ahead of technical ability to make it work.
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January 5, 2012
Insurance companies spent millions of dollars trying to defeat the U.S. health-care overhaul. But profit margins at the companies
have widened to levels not seen since before the recession, a Bloomberg Government study shows.
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September 14, 2011
IBJ StaffThe top event for regulatory professionals in the health care industry is headed to Indianapolis next month. The annual conference
of the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society, or RAPS, is expected to draw thousands of members representing 120 companies
and organizations.
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May 14, 2011
J.K. WallHealth reform could accelerate trend toward two tiers of care, with concierge services like Dr. Matt Priddy offers at the
top and long waits and minimal attention at the bottom.
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March 19, 2011
Tracey RathkeHuman resources used to be about payroll and benefits. Now it's also about watching Congress.
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February 12, 2011
J.K. WallThe president of the Indiana Primary Health Care Association wants to double the number of federally qualified community health
centers in Indiana in the next five years.
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January 31, 2011
Associated PressA federal judge ruled Monday that the Obama administration's health care overhaul is unconstitutional, siding with 26
states, including Indiana, that sued to block it.
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November 15, 2010
Bloomberg NewsPharmaceutical firms led by Eli Lilly are trying to eliminate a government panel aimed at controlling Medicare spending seven
months after they supported the health-care overhaul that created it.
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October 26, 2010
Associated PressA new estimate has lowered the expected cost of the federal health care overhaul to Indiana's state government to perhaps
$2.6 billion over the next decade.
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September 22, 2010
Bloomberg NewsThe failure by state regulators to decide how much insurers must spend on patient care is scaring investors from health-plan
stocks and complicating insurance company decisions.
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August 31, 2010
Associated PressAn administration official said Tuesday that seven states, including Indiana, suing the federal government are among 16 already
approved for subsidies to help with the health care costs of early retirees.
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July 15, 2010
Associated PressIndiana and other states face a struggle as they grapple with putting the health care changes into place in a relatively short
span of time while they also contend with the economic downtown and strained state budgets.
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June 17, 2010
Associated PressThe Indiana Family and Social Services told Area Agencies on Aging that a 15-percent cut in funding for the program known
as CHOICE will save about $7.3 million from the program's $48.8 million annual budget.
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June 7, 2010
WellPoint may face the most threat from more aggressive reviews. The Indianapolis insurer is the leader in small-business
and individual policies, areas that have seen the biggest increases in recent years.
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May 20, 2010
Bloomberg NewsThe price increase was fueled by the debate over the health-care overhaul in Washington, D.C., Medco Health Solutions Inc.
CEO David Snow said.
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May 10, 2010
Bloomberg NewsThe health law passed by Congress in March will force insurers like WellPoint to give rebates to customers next year if the
companies don't meet the medical-spending minimums.
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April 20, 2010
Bloomberg NewsInsurers like WellPoint Inc. should be required to get U.S. approval to increase premiums, Sens. Diane Feinstein and Tom Harkin
say.
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March 27, 2010
J.K. WallMost employers in central Indiana are just beginning to figure out what the health insurance reform bill will mean for their
businesses. Caterpillar Inc., which employs nearly 1,500 at an engine plant in Lafayette, expects costs to rise about 20 percent.
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Ameriana Bank took over Westfield Farmers Market for 2013 and it is held in their parking lot, corner of 32 and Carey road, 5 to 8. I am selling soap and candles there. great market!
B&T certainly has enough of our taxpayer dollars to do this thanks to Mayor Ballard. Given the firm's exceedingly poor reputation in the legal community, the basement would seem a better option.
Should read MAY hire 20 people.
Not a good location for a 300,000 home. 10th Street fumes, buses, noise. Max for this location 150,000.
The state constitution also does not say that the majority has a right to quorum, nor that the minority is required to allow them quorum. In fact, denial of quorum has been a parliamentary maneuver since the establishment of the first parliaments in the early 1600s. The right to deny quorum (and the requirement fore quorum) are to prevent exactly what happened in Indiana: A tyrannical majority pushing through odious, objectionable legislation. Denial of quorum is totally legitimate, and lest we forget, a tactic the GOP has employed many, many times to ensure their issues weren't given short shrift. By allowing the majority to impose "fines" on the minority for exercising the authority the constitution grants them (to deny quorum,) they are violating the constitution.