The stimulus bill has prompted Indiana businesses and not-for-profits that deal in medical records to look for partners to
help them meet the challenge of making those records electronic in five years.
Dr. Jeff Wells is moving on from the Indiana Medicaid program even as a $40 million cost-savings plan he spearheaded faces
a threat in the Legislature.
Modern-day bounty hunters are preparing to fan out across Indiana as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expands a program to ferret out fraud and overpayment in the health care system.
Doug Stratton, executive director of the Indiana Comprehensive Health Insurance Association, slashes costs, pushes disease
control to keep prices as low as possible.
Wall Street will be watching when the federal government unveils final Medicare Advantage rates for 2010 after markets close today. So will health care insurers, including Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. Two months ago, several insurance stocks sank sharply after the release of preliminary data showed rate increases to be smaller than analysts expected. Medicare Advantage allows […]
Wall Street will be watching when the federal government unveils final Medicare Advantage rates for 2010 after markets close today. So will health care insurers, including Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. Two months ago, several insurance stocks sank sharply after the release of preliminary data showed rate increases to be smaller than analysts expected. Medicare Advantage allows […]
The federal government said last night it will bump up a rate used to figure Medicare Advantage reimbursement to insurers by nearly 1 percent, but many analysts expect overall payment rates to fall next year. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said the national average growth percentage per capita for Medicare Advantage plans would […]
The Indiana General Assembly session will end with a focus on what has dominated discussion since Organization Day back in November: fiscal issues.
With more people out of work and without health insurance, you’d expect that the county-owned Wishard Health Services, whose mission is to treat the poor and indigent, would be flooded. Well, it is, but not any more than usual. Occupancy at its hospital in downtown Indianapolis was 98 percent before the recession and is still […]
Employers who offer health insurance coverage could see a 9-percent cost increase next year, and their workers may face an even bigger hit, according to a report from consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Costs will rise in part because workers worried about losing their jobs are using their health care insurance more while they still have it, […]
WellPoint Inc. has signed a deal with cross-town company Arcadia Resources Inc., promising to use Arcadia’s DailyMed service for the Medicaid patients that WellPoint handles in five states.The Indianapolis-based health insurer will launch the DailyMed program this month in Virginia, Indianapolis-based Arcadia said today in a press release.Programs in Kansas, New York, South Carolina and […]
Arcadia Resources Inc. this morning reported a loss of $32.7 million in its fiscal fourth quarter, far larger than the $4.5 million loss it announced in the same period a year earlier. The vast majority of the decline – $29.3 million – was due to one-time costs related to asset-impairment charges, debt restructuring costs and […]
Arcadia Resources Inc. this morning reported a loss of $32.7 million in its fiscal fourth quarter, far larger than the $4.5 million loss it announced in the same period a year earlier. The vast majority of the decline – $29.3 million – was due to one-time costs related to asset-impairment charges, debt restructuring costs and […]
Former Mayor Bart Peterson outlines the pitch Eli Lilly will make in D.C. For the first time in 15 years, lawmakers in Washington have plunged into a debate about overhauling the nation’s health care system. New proposals come out every week, with bills filed in Congress running longer than 600 pages and 10-year cost estimates […]
If we are lucky, by the time you read these words the Indiana General Assembly will have passed a new budget. Democrats use tarot cards and Republicans chicken innards to determine how much to spend. There are alternatives. In some states, changes in the level of the budget are driven by the percent change in […]
If we are lucky, by the time you read these words the Indiana General Assembly will have passed a new budget. Democrats use
tarot cards and Republicans chicken innards to determine how much to spend. There are alternatives.
A top Indiana official says the state’s privately run welfare-operations project has so many problems that Indiana could begin taking steps to cancel its $1.16 billion contract this fall. Family and Social Services Administration Secretary Anne Murphy said she asked lead vendor IBM Corp. to prepare a “corrective action plan” as part of a process […]
Indiana’s privately run welfare project has so many problems that the state could start taking steps to cancel its $1.16 billion contract with IBM as early as this fall, a state official said today. Secretary Anne Murphy of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration said she asked lead vendor IBM Corp. to submit a […]
I read with interest IBJ’s [June 29 story] focusing on health care reform. I was not surprised by the exclusion
of opinions from “real” private-practice physicians.
Indiana welfare officials considering canceling the state’s privately run welfare system have no backup plan in place, and critics say it will be hard to undo the privatization of 1,500 state case workers more than two years ago. Anne Murphy, secretary of the Family and Social Services Administration, confirmed recently that the system led by […]
