Whether so-called micro-hospitals can succeed financially might depend on whether they can meet Medicare’s definition of a hospital: a medical facility that dedicates the bulk of its services to inpatient care.
The federal government says readmissions are often unnecessary and cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars a year.
Starting Oct. 1, Anthem said, it could deny claims for hundreds of non-emergency diagnosis codes, such as bruises, rashes, minor burns, swimmer’s ear and athlete’s foot.
The transitional care hospital, which has lost money in two of the past three years, will reopen next year as Community Rehabilitation Hospital South.
The move could give Community a huge new stream of business. Thousands of people visit Walgreens stores in the Indianapolis area on a regular basis and about 40 percent of them don’t have primary care doctors.
Without dozens of insurance claims to file and follow up, physicians cut administrative overhead, reduce costs and keep their practices limited to a few hundred patients, rather than a few thousand.
The Indianapolis-based drugmaker warned that a much-anticipated new drug for rheumatoid arthritis might be delayed another 18 months.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb says the law is “crumbling under its own weight” and that people in as many as 60 Indiana counties will be left with just one choice for insurance coverage on the marketplace next year.
The small hospitals serve residents who would otherwise be a long distance from emergency care.
The deal is Eli Lilly and Co.’s latest push into a growing disease area for such disorders as arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis.
Urgent care centers, which already seem to have blanketed nearly every retail strip and neighborhood in central Indiana, are continuing to spring up at a surprising rate.
The departure of Timothy Hassinger comes as Dow AgroSciences’ parent prepares to merge with chemical giant DuPont.
An expansion in health coverage and an end to the recession, which hit Indiana hard, are two big reasons.
Duke Energy Corp.’s massive, $3.5 billion power plant in Edwardsport, billed as a technological marvel, continues to deal with operating and maintenance setbacks.
The grant from the Indianapolis-based philanthropic giant is aimed at bolstering Indiana’s stature as a life sciences research hub.
The scale is small, and that’s what St. Vincent Health sees as a big selling point to its newest hospital: convenience and quick care—15 minutes or less to see a doctor, and just a few minutes from home for people who live in Noblesville.
Eli Lilly and Co. announced the “strategic research collaboration” Thursday morning, calling it the largest agreement of its kind between Purdue and a single company.
Founded in 2009, Stratosphere Quality pushed revenues to about $122 million last year. It employs about 2,300 workers in 22 states, including about 400 in Indiana.
The new sites are located at health centers in Johnson, Allen, Vigo, Monroe and Tippecanoe counties, the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration announced Wednesday morning.
Dr. Jerome Adams was first appointed state health commissioner in October 2014 by then-Gov. Mike Pence. He has focused on issues such as the state’s opioid epidemic, high infant mortality rate and high rate of smoking.
