May 29, 2013
Associated PressHealth insurer WellPoint Inc. has named Lewis Hay III to its board of directors after announcing earlier this month that three
members had resigned for personal reasons.
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May 23, 2013
Bloomberg NewsCalifornia residents who choose to buy health insurance through the state exchange being created by the Affordable Care Act
may end up paying higher premiums.
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May 13, 2013
Bloomberg NewsLenox Baker, Sheila Burke and Susan Bayh resigned from the board effective immediately, Indianapolis-based WellPoint said
Monday in a regulatory filing.
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May 13, 2013
Rather than raising prices on private health insurers to make up for inadequate payments from the government, hospitals across
the country have been raising prices just because they can, according to a new study.
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May 7, 2013
J.K. WallThe appointment is the first high-profile post that Braly, 51, has accepted since she was ousted from the top spot at the
Indianapolis-based health insurer in August.
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May 2, 2013
J.K. WallThe bull market boosted first-quarter profit at Baldwin & Lyons Inc. to a record high, even though the property and casualty
insurer’s core business lost ground.
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April 29, 2013
J.K. WallAccording to one estimate, the Indianapolis-based health insurer will shed $400 million in pre-tax profits by 2017.
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April 24, 2013
IBJ StaffCNO Financial Group Inc. posted much lower earnings in the first quarter after suffering a $57.2 million loss in the period
on the extinguishment of debt.
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April 24, 2013
J.K. WallJoe Swedish, who took the helm of the Indianapolis-based health insurer a month ago, threw cold-water Wednesday on widespread
speculation that he will lead the company through a wave of buying hospitals and medical practices.
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April 22, 2013
Associated PressMany investors expect the health care overhaul's coverage expansions to affect WellPoint more than other insurers.
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April 11, 2013
IBJ Staff, Indiana Lawyer StaffThe Indiana Court of Appeals has affirmed a $14.5 million award of damages against State Farm Insurance to a Fishers-based
construction firm. The award is one of the largest defamation awards in U.S. history, according to the court.
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April 11, 2013
Bloomberg NewsIndiana, Michigan and South Carolina saw the steepest declines in employer-backed coverage from 2000 to 2011, according to
a study released Thursday.
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April 6, 2013
J.K. WallBrian and Emily Kahn had virtually identical physical therapy. He paid much more than she did. Why? Because of where the therapy
took place.
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April 4, 2013
J.K. WallThe Indianapolis-based health insurer’s board of directors approved higher compensation heading into 2012, after most
of its top executives saw their pay hold steady or decline in 2011.
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April 2, 2013
Associated PressThe compensation paid to outgoing Wellpoint Inc. CEO Angela Braly last year rose 56 percent, even as the company's shares
slid on lower enrollment in its Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans.
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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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March 28, 2013
Associated PressThe Carmel-based insurance holding company says it expects to buy back more of its shares and take a special charge tied to
a recent tender offer.
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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 25, 2013
J.K. WallThe Indiana Health Information Exchange Inc. hopes to raise roughly $20 million over three years to take its health information
technology services to hospitals around the country.
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March 18, 2013
J.K. WallThe debate over expanding Medicaid in Indiana so far has hinged on how much it will cost. But two recent studies suggest Hoosier
employers should be focused on how much a Medicaid expansion will save them: perhaps as much as $400 million per year.
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March 18, 2013
Mason KingThe insurer will invest millions to lease, renovate and equip a 109,000-square-foot customer service center at 101 W. 103rd
St. It plans to begin hiring immediately, and bring up to 1,200 new jobs by 2016.
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March 16, 2013
IBJ StaffIndiana Farmers Mutual picks executive vice president and legal counsel to replace long-time leader Daniel Stone.
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March 12, 2013
Associated PressPurdue University said Tuesday that Indiana farmers received payouts for 2012 corn, soybean and wheat losses that are nearly
twice as much as the previous record of $522 million in 2008.
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March 4, 2013
J.K. WallTrucking and auto fleet insurer Baldwin & Lyons Inc. plans to move its headquarters from downtown Indianapolis to Carmel
by the end of the year and hopes to add 133 jobs over the next five years, the company announced Monday afternoon.
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February 13, 2013
J.K. WallThe Indianapolis-based health insurer saw its stock tumble as much as 4.8 percent Wednesday morning after it unexpectedly
named career hospital executive Joe Swedish to be its next CEO.
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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.