March 26, 2013
Associated PressA study by the nation's leading group of financial risk analysts shows the biggest driver of health insurance premiums
will rise by more than 67 percent for Indiana residents' individual policies under President Barack Obama's health
care overhaul.
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March 22, 2013
Chris O'MalleyA big bet on employer-sponsored retirement plans is paying off for locally based OneAmerica Financial Partners, a company
best known for its life insurance offerings.
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November 14, 2012
Associated PressIndiana Gov.-elect Mike Pence has ruled out building a state-run health insurance exchange but appears to be leaving open
the option of running a joint venture with the federal government as a critical decision deadline draws near.
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November 5, 2012
J.K. WallA new agreement in Wisconsin provides a glimpse of the kind of “narrow network” arrangements that Indianapolis-based
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield might attempt in Indiana.
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September 29, 2012
J.K. WallWith health insurance premiums continuing to outstrip inflation, some health insurers and hospital systems are considering
bringing back an old strategy: limiting patient access to a “narrow” network of doctors and hospitals.
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September 17, 2012
J.K. WallSince 2007, premiums for high-deductible health plans’ family coverage have grown 32 percent—compared with 30
percent among all health plans, according to survey data from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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September 11, 2012
Associated PressAnnual premiums for job-based family health insurance went up just 4 percent on average this year, but that's no comfort
with the price tag approaching $16,000 and rising more than twice as fast as wages.
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August 23, 2012
The ordinance covering city employees offers insurance coverage to both same-sex and heterosexual unmarried couples. The mayor
also signed the "Complete Streets" proposal.
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July 30, 2012
IBJ StaffApex Benefits Group plans to invest $1 million and add 25 jobs paying an average of $44 an hour.
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July 25, 2012
The plan to offer health-care benefits to domestic partners of Indianapolis city workers passed a City-County Council committee
by a 7-0 vote on Tuesday. The full council could consider the measure as early as Aug. 13.
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June 16, 2012
J.K. WallWhile mergers and acquisitions have been rampant in central Indiana’s benefits-broker industry the past five years,
a handful of brokers has grown the old-fashioned way—by adding clients.
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May 25, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinCity-County Councilor Angela Mansfield filed the proposal covering city employees that would make same-sex and heterosexual
couples who live together eligible for health insurance benefits.
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April 28, 2012
Greg AndrewsDavid Karandos failed to make fine payments due March 1 and April 1, and Securities Commissioner Chris Naylor has ordered
him to appear at a May hearing to make the case why “additional consequences” aren’t warranted.
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March 17, 2012
Ryan Colvin / Special to IBJRates are set to rise as insurers increasingly note the link between older workers' health and productivity.
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January 30, 2012
J.K. WallThe Carmel office of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. just made its sixth acquisition in five years, and it expects looming changes
to tax and health laws to produce even more chances to snap up benefits brokers this year.
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September 20, 2011
Bloomberg NewsThe deal helps WellPoint compete for employers with the U.S. state-run marketplaces set to open in 2014 under President Obama’s
health-care overhaul.
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August 3, 2011
Associated PressThe nation's third-largest health insurance company is the latest to leave the individual policy market in Indiana in
another sign of diminishing competition.
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July 27, 2011
Associated PressConsumers may catch a little break when their health insurance policies renew. Lower-than-expected use of health care has
helped push insurer earnings higher and that may temper how much they increase premiums.
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July 9, 2011
J.K. WallCompanies that drop insurance coverage could, without spending any more money than they are now, give workers an 11-percent
raise or else help them save as much as $2,000 per year buying health coverage in one of the exchanges, IBJ calculations
show.
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May 14, 2011
The problem is, too many people make unhealthy choices and the consequences of these choices become everyone’s problem.
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March 19, 2011
J.K. WallIndiana University Health is the latest system to drill employees ranging from clerks to physicians in how to treat patients.
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March 12, 2011
Mike HicksIt's a wide entitlement program that will literally explode in the coming decades, since a third of all combat veterans will
meet the disability requirements. It is not sustainable, and the Senate just tightened the requirements.
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February 9, 2011
Associated PressMajor health insurers, including WellPoint, say a provision that requires them to spend a certain percentage of the premiums
they collect on care-related costs will eat into earnings this year.
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January 31, 2011
Bloomberg NewsTop executives from WellPoint Inc. and UnitedHealth Group Inc. are meeting almost monthly with their counterparts from Aetna
Inc., Cigna Corp. and Humana Inc. in an informal lobbying alliance aimed at blunting parts of the health-care law, say sources
with knowledge of the sessions.
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January 5, 2011
Anthony SchoettleOpen-wheel race series signs three-year sponsorship pact with Dallas-based Global Corporate Alliance.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.