The ACA subsidies that expired this year were at the center of a bitter fight in Congress last fall, with Democrats and some Republicans calling for their renewal.
Read More
The drugmaker is restricting access to a drug discount program intended for safety-net hospitals in a move the company says is needed to identify waste, fraud and abuse.
Read More
The Medicare GLP-1 Bridge program is designed to provide temporary access to GLP-1 obesity drugs while federal officials examine longer-term approaches to obesity treatment through Medicare.
The ability to quickly manufacture vaccines that closely match the latest flu strains could prevent thousands of hospitalizations.
Hospital leaders and other opponents of price controls argue that the strategy doesn’t address the root causes of high hospital prices, such as rising labor, drug, and technology costs, and that the caps will force hospitals to cut services.
The list of hospitals that since April have either received letters of warning or requests to submit plans to provide transparent pricing includes 34 hospitals in Indiana.
Despite improvement in some categories, Indiana’s overall ranking fell four spots, its worst ranking since 2021.
At the American Diabetes Association meeting in New Orleans, market leader Eli Lilly and Co. asserted its dominance in the weight-loss market.
Nearly 60,000 fewer Hoosiers signed up for insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges this year following the expiration of enhanced tax credits that once kept their monthly premiums low, a report says.
Tens of millions of people are now taking the medications worldwide, turning what began as obesity and diabetes treatments into what could be modern medicine’s largest unplanned neuroscience experiments.
Indiana’s Todd Rokita and attorneys general in Nebraska and Louisiana maintain that rescheduling the drug will have a negative impact on communities.
The national survey results, released Thursday, show the all-ages uninsured rate has stayed significantly down from where it was several years ago.
The proposed replacement hospital would cost about $1.64 billion, but the appropriations legislation — the first for the 2027 fiscal year to clear a major congressional hurdle — allows for up to $1.98 billion to go toward the project.
Federal approval cleared the way for Indiana to revamp hospital Medicaid payments, with larger increases going to providers that keep commercial prices lower.
The hospital said the second breach notice is related to additional concerns about Anthem’s claim-payment practices and its failure to apply a contract between the hospital and the insurance company correctly.
CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions said the cuts are the result of the state of Indiana transitioning its Bureau of Disabilities Services Medicaid waiver case management to new contracted agencies.
Research by the economists found that average premiums for home insurance climbed an inflation-adjusted 28% between 2017 and 2024.
Indiana residents have more than doubled their cannabis use over the past decade, researchers said.
The report comes as Indiana hospitals attempt to address widespread criticism — including from state leaders — over high prices.
The Indianapolis-based health care insurer raised full-year earnings guidance after making its first-quarter financial report on Wednesday.
Hospital CEO Brenda Reetz the insurance underpayment situation impacts patient bills, hospital stability and access to care. Indianapolis-based Anthem said it is working with the hospital to resolve the problem.
The case debated whether the NCAA had a duty to warn individual student athletes about the risks of football-related head trauma, which can lead to death.
