Jeff Dodson is a leader that is helping to transform UnitedHealthOne into what he call “a highly adaptable, consumer-centric digital payer organization.”
Starting Oct. 1, Anthem said, it could deny claims for hundreds of non-emergency diagnosis codes, such as bruises, rashes, minor burns, swimmer’s ear and athlete’s foot.
The move could give Community a huge new stream of business. Thousands of people visit Walgreens stores in the Indianapolis area on a regular basis and about 40 percent of them don’t have primary care doctors.
Without dozens of insurance claims to file and follow up, physicians cut administrative overhead, reduce costs and keep their practices limited to a few hundred patients, rather than a few thousand.
The Indianapolis Colts are saying so long to one of their most valuable members. No, Andrew Luck is not retiring. But the all-star quarterback will no doubt feel the impact of the change.
Urgent care centers, which already seem to have blanketed nearly every retail strip and neighborhood in central Indiana, are continuing to spring up at a surprising rate.
An Indianapolis-area chiropractor is among more than a dozen people in Indiana-based investigations and hundreds of people nationwide charged in health care fraud and opioid scams worth $1.3 billion.
A looming shortage of physicians is expected to hit Indiana hard in coming years. Experts say new residency slots could help, because residents tend to practice in the state where they did their residencies.
The scale is small, and that’s what St. Vincent Health sees as a big selling point to its newest hospital: convenience and quick care—15 minutes or less to see a doctor, and just a few minutes from home for people who live in Noblesville.
Dr. Jerome Adams was first appointed state health commissioner in October 2014 by then-Gov. Mike Pence. He has focused on issues such as the state’s opioid epidemic, high infant mortality rate and high rate of smoking.
U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker approved a temporary injunction that blocked provisions of a new Indiana law that would make it tougher for girls under age 18 to get an abortion without their parents’ knowledge.
USA Gymnastics, the national governing body for the sport in the United States, ordered the review following a series of civil lawsuits filed against the Indianapolis-based organization and a former team doctor by gymnasts who claim the physician sexually abused them.
In good news for the GOP, the budget office said the Senate bill would cut the deficit by $202 billion more over the coming decade than the House version.
Franciscan Health says its new micro-hospital will fill a service gap in Johnson County, giving patients more access. The small hospital could also stand to reap big bucks.
While making opioid prescriptions harder to get, Indiana’s crackdown helped spur a twofold increase in robberies of pharmacies that exacerbated the state’s standing as No. 1 in the nation for those crimes.
The companies say the drug, now in late-stage clinical trials, could be more effective for pain treatment than opioids—a dangerous category of pain killers that includes hydrocodone, morphine and fentanyl—without the abuse potential of such medications.
The Indiana Department of Insurance has yet to approve the insurers’ proposed higher rates, which will be for those buying individual plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplace next year.
