Doctors resume battle with Anthem, health insurers
Doctors are pushing again to strengthen their hands in contract negotiations with health insurers, especially market leader
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
Doctors are pushing again to strengthen their hands in contract negotiations with health insurers, especially market leader
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
Attorney General Greg Zoeller says he’ll look at the constitutionality of parts of the federal health care bill, including
the so-called Nebraska compromise.
A state senator said his committee will consider legislation that would allow riverboat casinos on Lake Michigan and the Ohio
River to move inland in hopes of staving off new competition from neighboring states.
With less than three months until March Madness tips off, the NCAA and city’s Capital Improvement Board are still trying to work out a lease deal to hold the event at Lucas Oil Stadium April 3 and 5. The CIB’s overhaul is slowing talks, but the board’s new president promises to get the issue on the front burner.
Indiana General Assembly begins 2010 session with the usual pledges, but election-year politics and redistricting are likely
to complicate matters.
State lawmakers say a proposed bill would help people get quicker access to in-home care that most seniors
prefer to nursing homes.
Property-tax caps, unemployment insurance, ethics top list of issues awaiting General Assembly.
In an election year with a big reward—the potential to redraw political maps for the next decade—lawmakers are looking to impress voters.
The December hearings by Indiana General Assembly committees focused on issues that legislative leaders designated as
key session priorities, but the committee work was largely unremarkable, with predictable testimony derived from the usual
suspects.
Indianapolis property tax bills, paid in two installments due in May and November, should be sent without delay for the first year since
2006.
Schools will lose about 3.5 percent of current state funding in 2010, starting with their January payment.
The Senate voted along party lines Thursday to raise the ceiling on the government debt to $12.4 trillion, a massive increase
over the current limit. Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh was the only Democrat to oppose the move.
The Senate has passed President Barack Obama’s landmark health care overhaul in a climactic Christmas Eve vote, extending
medical insurance to 30 million Americans. But the Senate’s bill still must be merged with legislation passed by the House,
and there are significant differences.
A state senator from Carmel says he’ll file legislation that would prevent Indiana schools from starting classes before Labor
Day and ending after June 10.
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard pulled out his predecessor Steve Goldsmith’s Republican playbook and began exploring a host
of privatization proposals in an effort to save money.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office alleged in court papers that one of his businesses, Ohio-based Fair Finance Co., operated as
a Ponzi scheme.
For the head of an 11,000-employee company, Bryan Bedford has all the profile around these parts as a participant in the
federal witness protection program.
After 36 years of flying smaller planes painted in the colors of the major airlines for which it flies under contract,
Republic Airways Holdings in 2009 became a branded airline operator of its own.
Ann Lathrop is the new CEO of the Marion County Capital Improvement Board, which oversees the Indiana
Convention Center, Conseco Fieldhouse and Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.