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Insurance Benefits
Docs court employers with health management
May 28, 2013
J.K. WallThree years ago, the physician practice American Health Network was concerned that the boom in employer on-site clinics would
hurt its business. So it launched a program aimed at managing the health of employers’ workers. And it has come up with some
impressive results.
MoreStudy: Indiana individual health-claim costs to rise
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.
MoreStrong sales of retirement plans boost OneAmerica
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.
MorePence not ruling out health partnership with feds
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.
MoreDeal provides peek at Anthem's narrow networks
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.
MoreSome hospitals, doctors might be cut from health plans
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.
MoreHigh-deductible premiums rising, too
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.
MoreAverage premiums for employee health plans rise 4 percent
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.
MoreMayor signs off on domestic-partner ordinance
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.
MoreEmployee benefits firm plans Indianapolis expansion
July 30, 2012
IBJ StaffApex Benefits Group plans to invest $1 million and add 25 jobs paying an average of $44 an hour.
MoreCommittee passes domestic partner benefits proposal
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.
MoreBenefits brokers gain ground without merging
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.
MoreIndianapolis council to consider domestic-partner benefits
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.
MoreBroker tied to ISTA insurance woes still tangling with state
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.
MoreCOLVIN: Get ready for a perfect storm in Worker's Compensation
March 17, 2012
Ryan Colvin / Special to IBJRates are set to rise as insurers increasingly note the link between older workers' health and productivity.
MoreGallagher sees more broker mergers coming
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.
MoreWellPoint buying private health insurance exchange
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.
MoreAetna latest out of Indiana individual health market
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.
MoreHealth care use trend may temper premium hikes
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.
MoreEmployers face messy decision to drop health insurance
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.
MoreMANTOOTH: Companies bogged down by employees' poor health
May 14, 2011
The problem is, too many people make unhealthy choices and the consequences of these choices become everyone’s problem.
MoreHospital systems adopt Starbucks-style service
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.
MoreHICKS: Unfortunately, veteran tuition benefits must be cut
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.
MoreHealth insurers expect hit from reform rule
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.
MoreExecs from WellPoint, peers meet to hone health-law lobby
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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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.