FDA prepping long-awaited plan to reduce salt
Food companies and restaurants could soon face government pressure to make their foods less salty for health reasons.
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Town waives fees to accelerate $17.6M senior-living project
Fishers will forgive as much as $300,000 in development fees to get a $17.6 million expansion project started by Aug. 1.
Insurance changes put state’s autism industry on edge
Indiana’s autism therapists say their prospects are cloudy after the state’s largest health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, cut payments 40 percent and took a harder line on paying for therapy for school-age children.
Legal snags kill Community-Eskenazi hospital merger
Community Health Network and Eskenazi Health quietly called off their engagement months ago, when they found out federal laws effectively prohibited their marriage. Now they’re trying to figure out how to just be friends.
Researchers delve into brain function
Early results of studies show exercise, training help keep mind active later in life.
Remodelings might await boomers wanting to stay in their homes
Many homes will be difficult for aging boomers to navigate without changing doors, bathrooms, hallways and kitchens.
Former Riley Hospital CEO Pescovitz to join Eli Lilly
Dr. Ora Pescovitz is returning to Indianapolis after spending the past five years as CEO of the University of Michigan Health System.
Westfield schools sign Riverview as health provider, stadium sponsor
Westfield Washington Schools has landed a 10-year, $1.2 million sponsor for the 5,000-seat football stadium it’s building at Westfield High School.
Audit: Nearly 275 in Indiana await first VA visit
Auditors found that the agency’s complicated appointment process created confusion among schedulers and supervisors, and that a 14-day goal for seeing first-time patients was unattainable.
Doctors want to improve state drug-tracking system
A study has found that most doctors in Indiana aren't frequently using an electronic system designed to detect prescription drug abuse.
Lilly consolidated into testosterone drug lawsuit
The decision to collect cases before one court comes after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it will re-examine the safety of testosterone-replacement drugs after studies showed the medicine posed an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
Providers increasingly joining health insurance game
When the next enrollment season opens for the Obamacare exchange in Indiana, more than half the “health insurers” will actually be doctors and hospitals.
Coats, Donnelly demand answers on VA wait times
The senators planned to submit a letter Thursday to Acting Secretary Sloan Gibson requesting a review of Indiana facilities after a May 20 request to former Secretary Eric Shinseki went unanswered. Shinseki resigned last week.
Now, application ‘inconsistencies’ vex health care law
A government document provided to The Associated Press indicates that at least 2 million people enrolled for taxpayer-subsidized private health insurance have data discrepancies in their applications.
Glaxo to pay $105 million in multistate settlement
Indiana will receive part of the settlement money. The accord will prohibit Glaxo from providing incentive payments to salespeople that encourage uses of the drugs not indicated on their labels.
Midwest VA hospitals also had secret waiting lists
The Department of Veterans Affairs maintained 10 such "secret waiting lists" of military veterans in need of care at facilities in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, the letters said.
Republicans offer alternative VA health care bill
A bill proposed by four Senate Republicans would give veterans more flexibility to see a private doctor if they are forced to wait too long for an appointment at a Veterans Affairs hospital or clinic.
Shinseki resigns amid veterans’ health care issues
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned Friday after publicly apologizing for systemic problems plaguing the agency's health care system.
Costly drugs force cancer docs to weigh price with therapy
With new cancer drugs priced as high as $10,000 a month, and insurers tightening payment rules, patients who thought they were well covered increasingly find themselves having to make life-altering decisions about what they can afford.
Push grows for Shinseki to go as veteran care flaws found
A report found the VA’s Eastern Area Fiduciary Hub in Indianapolis was “not timely processing allegations of misuse of beneficiary funds, conducting field examinations, and processing some incoming mail.”