Indiana insurance marketplace failing smokers
The American Lung Association says Indiana's health insurance marketplace is failing to provide all the coverage it should to help people quit smoking under President Barack Obama's health care law.
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Are nurses really overworked and underpaid?
Nurses in Indiana are underpaid, relative to their peers nationally. They are not overworked from a sheer number of hours, but the demands of hospitals nurses have spiked recently, reducing nurses’ margin for caring for patients with a human touch. For a business that competes on service and, increasingly, on price, those are big problems.
Health insurance brokers turn focus to individuals
Sparking the movement is anticipation of employers’ dropping their group health plans, thereby forcing workers onto Obamacare exchanges in search of coverage.
Doctors, nurses flock to Indiana Healthy Indiana Plan
The number of health care providers contracted with the Medicaid managed care plans and Healthy Indiana Patients surged 17 percent in just seven weeks after the federal government approved Gov. Mike Pence’s expansion of the Healthy Indiana Plan on Jan. 27.
Loss of special perks chops Anthem CEO’s compensation to $13.5M
The Indianapolis-based health insurer raised pay for its executives, including CEO Joe Swedish, at a much slower pace than the 38-percent return it generated for shareholders last year.
IU Health fires nurse who was part of union organizing
The fired nurse, Lacie Little, was one of two nurses quoted in an IBJ story that broke the news of the attempt to organize a nurse union at IU Health’s downtown hospitals. The union working with the IU Health nurses has filed an unfair labor practices charge.
Indiana lawmakers back 3-year ban on building nursing homes
The state Senate voted 36-12 Tuesday to give final approval to the bill, sending it to Gov. Mike Pence.
Financially fit IU Health still hoarding cash for fear of change
IU Health had one of its most profitable years ever in 2014, as it cut staff, boosted its physician office visits and improved bill collections. But it is still hoarding cash to be ready for future cuts in reimbursement as well as future building projects.
Colleges getting out of health insurance business
The main driver of colleges getting out of the insurance business is a provision in the Affordable Care Act that prevents students from using premium tax subsidies to purchase insurance from their college or university.
Semper Reformanda
Think we’re almost done with changes from Obamacare? Think again. Things won’t settle down any sooner than 2017, and they could actually get even wilder after that.
IU Health nurses to vote on union
Nurses at Indiana University Health’s downtown hospitals are moving quickly to form a union in a bid they say is designed to improve their own working conditions and pay and to improve care for patients.
Anthem to help Feds study U.S. medical billing system
President Barack Obama is enlisting private companies into his drive to change the way the U.S. pays its medical bills, including insurers Anthem Inc. and Cigna Inc. and casino chain Caesars Entertainment Corp.
Alzheimer’s debate revived by new Mayo Clinic study
New research from the Mayo Clinic is bringing back a long-running debate over whether drug companies like Eli Lilly and Biogen are focusing on the right target in developing therapies to treat the disease.
Right-to-try drug bill signed into state law
Terminally ill patients in Indiana who have run out of FDA-approved options can now turn to treatments and medicines in the testing phase.
Pence set to sign ‘right to try’ trial drugs bill
A proposal aimed at giving terminally ill patients in Indiana easier access to experimental drugs not yet on pharmacy shelve is about to become law.
Simon wins $150M after long legal battle with 16 insurers
Simon Property Group has been awarded a major victory in a nearly five-year legal battle following a flood that severely damaged one of Simon's shopping malls in May 2010.
Pay dips, but pension values soar for Lilly’s top execs
The top five executives at Eli Lilly and Co. took home 5 percent to 10 percent less in cash, stock and perks last year than the year before, according to a Monday securities filing.
State suspends VA manager who made fun of suicide
The Indiana Behavioral Health and Human Services Board voted Monday to suspend clinical social worker Robin Paul's license for 90 days.
Potential Alzheimer’s drug further backs protein hypothesis
The results of an experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease provide the best evidence so far that the memory-robbing condition is caused by an errant protein in the brain. Drugmakers including Eli Lilly have been concentrating their Alzheimer’s research on that area.
‘Right to try’ trial drugs bill heads to governor’s desk
A proposal to give terminally ill patients easier access to experimental drugs not yet on pharmacy shelves has been forwarded to Gov. Mike Pence for his signature.