Many patients in their 50s simply want to end chronic joint pain from arthritis, injuries and years of wear and tear to get back to hiking or to take up pickleball.
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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.
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Lawmakers in the Indiana House are scheduled to take up the measure in a day-long committee hearing Tuesday.
Despite ringing up an operating profit in the second quarter, Indiana University Health reported a total loss for the first six months of 2022 of $929.6 million, and attributed the loss largely to declines in financial markets.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita sent a notice to the legal team for Caitlin Bernard on Tuesday advising it that the doctor is under investigation for how she had reported the procedure to state officials.
An attorney representing the doctor who oversaw the abortion procedure of a 10-year-old rape victim filed a tort claim notice Tuesday against Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita—the first step in the process of filing a defamation lawsuit.
Dr. Julia Vaizer has spent the past year assisting Dr. Geoffrey Billows, the series’ longtime medical director, who announced that he will be stepping down.
Dr. Caitlin Bernard’s attorney said the physician “took every appropriate and proper action in accordance with the law and both her medical and ethical training as a physician.”
The surge reversed years of progress fighting one of the gravest public health challenges in modern medicine, according to a new analysis released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Biden administration on Monday said federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions.
Ascension St. Vincent closed the facility just five years after opening it as the first in a new model of tiny hospitals around central Indiana.
The renovated facility will be called Ethan Crossing of Indianapolis and feature a 42-bed hospital and inpatient behavioral health unit as well as a 46-bed residential Substance Use Disorder, or SUD, unit.
The Mayo Clinic Care Network allows small, independent hospitals to tap into the giant health system’s vast system of specialists and researchers to help solve medical problems.
The closures will affect more than half of the urgent care centers operated by Ascension St. Vincent across the state, a move certain to impact scores of employees as well as patients who use those centers.
Priority Physicians’ new facility 12174 N. Meridian St., Suite 300, replaces its original flagship office in Indianapolis.
The health system announced Thursday morning it will build a 95,000-square-foot clinic on a site that previously housed a 59-year-old retail center anchored by a long-closed Value City Department Store.
The Marion County women, who discovered they were among the nearly 100 “secret children” of a former Indianapolis fertility doctor, have filed lawsuits against the producers of the popular Netflix documentary “Our Father.”
This week’s ruling follows efforts by many states and the federal government to help curb health care costs by restricting or eliminating so-called “surprise billing ” and requiring increased price transparency for consumers.
Dr. Brian Leon filed a lawsuit this month against Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc., alleging breach of contract, unpaid wages, fraudulent misrepresentation and numerous other claims.
The Indianapolis-based health system said the new hospital will bring inpatient and emergency care into the city of West Lafayette for the first time.
A new study released Thursday by the Rand Corp. showed that Hoosiers covered by employer health plans paid Indiana hospitals nearly three times—or 292%—of what Medicare would have paid for the same procedures.
In a new policy announced Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics said it is putting all its guidance under the microscope to eliminate “race-based” medicine and resulting health disparities.
