Pricing legislation shows health reform complexities
Indiana lawmakers discovered this legislative session that performing major financial surgery on multibillion-dollar nonprofit hospital systems is a motley and entangled task.
Indiana lawmakers discovered this legislative session that performing major financial surgery on multibillion-dollar nonprofit hospital systems is a motley and entangled task.
Around 1:20 a.m. Friday, Indiana lawmakers approved the last bill of the session: the 2026-27 state budget. Here’s what happened with some of the bills we’ve watched this session.
The legislation threatens to strip the state’s largest hospital systems of their nonprofit status if their prices exceed state average prices.
Hundreds of university researchers had their National Science Foundation funding abruptly canceled Friday to comply with President Trump’s directives.
Indiana lawmakers have discovered this legislative session that performing major financial surgery on multibillion-dollar nonprofit hospital systems is a motley and entangled task.
The major hurdle will be the budget, which is typically the last bill lawmakers approve before heading home.
The medical malpractice case centers on Dr. Donald Cline, the former Indianapolis fertility specialist who is believed to have deceptively fathered more than 90 children.
An updated revenue forecast presented to the Budget Committee projected the state’s revenue will flatline from 2025 to 2027.
Brokers representing building owners have generally refrained from discussing the issue publicly, either because of the fluidity of the situation or because their companies carry government leasing contracts.
Trump’s order contains proposals to further lower the cost of insulin, importing more low-cost drugs and streamlining the federal approval process for some drugs.
The legislation threatens to strip large hospital systems of their state nonprofit status if they charge prices exceeding certain averages.
The Senate must still vote to pass the bill out of its chamber by Tuesday. The House will then decide whether it agrees with the Senate’s changes.
The fallout has been most pronounced for companies that buy or sell from China, but even those that do business with other countries say international buyers are treading carefully.
The Atlas World Group CEO speaks candidly about what he believes the impact tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump will have. On his company, on Americans and on other countries.
Over 2 million Hoosiers live in areas with inadequate access to primary care providers, and the state ranks 33rd for primary care access and 43rd for mental health access.
State lawmakers had their final (and for some, especially long) meetings this week as they returned to some of the last and thorniest bills left on their plates.
Conservative Republican Reps. Victoria Spartz of Indiana and Thomas Massie of Kentucky voted “no” against the bill, as did all Democrats.
Chance Benbow was hired as executive vice president for JDA Worldwide in 2017 and named CEO in March 2023.
When IBJ recognized Maureen Weber as a Forty Under 40 honoree in 2010, she had just finished reorganizing the Indiana Department of Education and had taken a job as director of community outreach and engagement at Clarian Health, now Indiana University Health. She was 35, an attorney and had served in three state agencies. “I […]
Dr. David Mossler is responsible for the quality of care provided by Hancock Health as well as the finances of its clinics.