Indiana lawmakers have discovered this legislative session that performing major financial surgery on multibillion-dollar nonprofit hospital systems is a motley and entangled task.
An Indiana Senate committee voted to amend a bill targeting the cost of health care at nonprofit hospitals, with the new version freezing prices but not imposing penalties for two years.
Occupational therapists, physical therapists and registered nurses have received payments from the settlement, while almost a third will go toward attorney fees.
The bill is part of mounting scrutiny by lawmakers of the prices hospital systems charge patients covered by commercial health insurance, typically provided by their employers.
When the merger is completed in mid-2025, OrthoIndiana will operate 39 locations throughout Indiana with 160 physicians and more than 1,800 employees, the practices said.
The Indiana influenza dashboard shows there have been five influenza-associated deaths statewide for the current flu season, which typically runs from October through May.
The Conrad 30 federal waiver program is a great tool to recruit international physicians to work in underserved areas, but it does not fully address the challenges of retaining physicians in these areas long term.
Last month, the federal Medicare program proposed a 2.9% cut to physician pay for 2025. That marked the fifth straight year that regulators proposed cutting payments to doctors for thousands of services, from stitching a wound to replacing a knee.
Dr. Greg Hardin, an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in sports medicine, claims that Franciscan Alliance engaged in conduct harmful to his practice over the course of several years.
Community Health Network’s announcement this month that it plans to open a $335 million campus near U.S. 31 and 196th Street in Westfield marks the latest entry into the crowded Hamilton County hospital market.
Primary Record allows families and other caregivers to organize and share medical information with one another and with doctors from their computer or phone.
In the past five years, the nation’s largest Catholic health system has unloaded more than a dozen hospitals across the country, from New York to Alabama, as it restructures amid a growing tide of red ink.
Multidisciplinary teams composed of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, pharmacists and others have worked to develop best practices for quick recovery from everything from open-heart procedures to gall bladder removal to bariatric surgery.
