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WellPoint jumps after feds reverse Medicare decision
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.
MoreGovernors aside, feds building health care exchanges
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.
MoreHealth insurers' anti-fraud bid seeks to ease profit-limit rule
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.
MoreInsurance company key to Franciscan-American Health partnership
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.
MoreHigh court ruling opens Medicaid escape hatch for states
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.
MoreU.S. health-care overhaul upheld by Supreme Court
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.
MoreReport: Rebates from health care law will top $1B
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.
MoreBURTON: Accountability care organizations need good data
March 17, 2012
Michelle Burton / Special to IBJConcept is likely ahead of technical ability to make it work.
MoreWellPoint, other insurers profit from health law they oppose
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.
MoreHealth regulatory leaders ready to flock to city
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.
MoreReform could create more 'boutique' doctors
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.
MoreRATHKE: My saga of staying up to date on health care reform
March 19, 2011
Tracey RathkeHuman resources used to be about payroll and benefits. Now it's also about watching Congress.
MoreMedicaid expansion could tax community health centers
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.
MoreFlorida judge strikes down health care overhaul
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.
MoreDrugmakers seek Republican allies to defeat cost-cutting panel
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.
MoreNew estimate drops health plan's cost to Indiana
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.
MoreHealth overhaul's $264M question weighs down WellPoint
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.
MoreSome states suing feds also claim health subsidies
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.
MoreIndiana Medicaid chief: Feds leave states in dark
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.
MoreAdvocates decry cuts to Indiana home health program
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.
MoreObama gives states $250 million to review insurance premiums
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.
MoreDrug-spending increase highest in four years
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.
MoreWellPoint, others may need relief from law's spending mandate
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.
MoreDemocrats want government approval of health premiums
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.
MoreEmployers fret over health care overhaul
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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These higher rates Co. e about only because physicians are now hospital employees. otherwise physicians couldn't charge these rates and share the windfall with the hospital. Community/rural hospitals probably not buying physicians practices and thus weren't getting the windfall anyway.
The incentive for poor people to get themselves off public assistance and "no longer be poor" is even with help...they're STILL POOR! Being poor, even with some assistance, isn't all that pleasant. (I speak from experience) It's a stubborn myth that poor people, who are on public assistance, are sitting in the lap of luxury. You should try living on just those "freebies" that you mentioned and see how meager they actually are. By the way, I didn't mean you had to buy/own a puppy...just pet one. :)
As near as I can tell the minority has ZERO constitutional obligation to offer a quorum to the majority. A requirement for quorum was inserted into the constitution so that tyrannical majorities could not simply shove through odious and objectionable legislation (which is exactly what they did.) By allowing a tyrannical majority to charge fines against the minority for exercising their constitutional prerogative to deny quorum the court as made a mockery of constitutional governance in the state of Indiana.
The voters elected the Reps to make a vote not walk out on the vote. They had to the right to exercise their opinion and vote "no" to the bill. Let me ask you this if you walked out of your job for 5 straight weeks would you get paid? Would you even have a job to go back to? If any elected official walks out on the people they should be arrested for stealing tax dollars from the public. They were elected to do a job and not leave when the job gets stuff.
I have been to several of their locations in Pennsylvania and always go in for 1 item and leave with a basket full of things. I'm very happy they decided on Indiana, now if only they would put the other store in eastside.