Insurance provider to open Indianapolis call center, hire 150
The center will be devoted to CareSource’s Life Services program, which helps its members overcome barriers to finding and maintaining employment.
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Half of insurers on Indiana Obamacare market are losing money
UnitedHealthcare, MDwise, IU Health Plans and Assurant all disclosed losses during the first nine months of this year on the policies they are selling on the federal marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act.
Insurer to be title sponsor of IU Radio Network
The Indiana University Radio Network will have a new name when the men’s basketball team kicks off its season Friday at Eastern Illinois. Ohio-based CareSource has signed a deal with Learfield Sports to be the network’s first title sponsor.
Sticker shock hits insurance customers of Obamacare exchange
The prices health insurers charge Hoosiers on the Obamacare exchange will drop more than in any other state next year. But for most Hoosiers, that’s bad news. Lower average premiums statewide means smaller tax subsidies statewide to reduce the cost of Obamacare policies.
Is Indiana’s lack of ‘narrow networks’ keeping Obamacare premiums high?
A recent study found the number of health insurers offering broad provider networks on the Obamacare exchange was higher than in all but 10 other states and suggests that so long as Hoosiers keep singing “Don’t Fence Me In,” they could keep paying more for health insurance.
Anthem’s Indiana profits soar as Hoosiers cut medical spending by $1 billion
Anthem turned out unheard of gains in 2014, the first year of Obamacare’s new health insurance overhaul, as Anthem’s customers numbers held steady but their spending with hospitals and doctors plummeted.
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Bloomington-based CarDon & Associates Inc. is facing opposition to its plan to rezone more than 25 acres to build a senior living campus in Zionsville. Residents from neighborhoods near the proposed campus packed Town Hall on Jan. 20 to voice their opposition to the project, which they say will cause traffic problems and is too […]
Cheapest Obamacare plan stealing exchange customers from Anthem
A sleepy season for Obamacare sign-ups will end on Sunday will overall enrollment almost exactly where insurers predicted it would be. But low-priced plans, such as Ohio-based CareSource, have scooped up far more customers than expected.
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The U.S. health care system is so complicated, it now takes four years in college to learn how to navigate it. The University of Indianapolis has created Indiana’s first bachelor’s degree program in health care consumer advocacy, which is designed to train workers to help patients wend their way through the health care system. Health […]
Ohio health plan to open Indy call center with 200 workers
CareSource, a 25-year-old managed Medicaid plan that covers more than 1.3 million people in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, said the Indianapolis center will be managed by Xerox Corp.
Obamacare exchange 2.0: Anthem far from the cheapest plan
There are more choices and better deals in the 2015 Obamacare exchange, but if you want the same coverage as last year, it’s going to cost you more.
New Obamacare rule could boost WellPoint
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule that would automatically re-enroll exchange plan customers each year, which would help companies like WellPoint that sold aggressively on the exchanges in their first year.