3+ hour, 8+ min ago  (569+ words) Kosciusko County carries a lot of different insurance, and Monday morning, May 4, the Kosciusko County Commissioners approved annual insurance renewals with some changes....

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (960+ words) INDIANAPOLIS " The state agency overseeing Medicaid is hiring 400 employees to check the eligibility of the 560, 000 low-income Hoosiers getting their health insurance through the Healthy Indiana Plan. Fifty of those have been onboarded as state employees since the effort began last…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (851+ words) INDIANAPOLIS " About half of U. S. adults say it is difficult to afford health care costs, according to new polling from KFF, a national policy research organization. Victoria Gonzales is a Fort Wayne mother of a 9-month-old baby boy named Adriel. Motherhood…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (678+ words) The federal government is holding up supplemental payments for Medicaid providers in Indiana's Path Ways program. INDIANAPOLIS " Indiana nursing homes are owed hundreds of millions in back payments for services provided under the state's Medicaid program for long-term care. The…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (649+ words) INDIANAPOLIS " The state's five largest nonprofit hospital systems again cleared a statutory pricing benchmark in 2024, according to the latest report commissioned by the Indiana Department of Insurance. Prices for the commercially insured market were compared to 285% of what Medicare would…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (488+ words) Illustration by Dustin Elliott. Jan Burnett thinks her routine blood tests are behind her when she receives an explanation of benefits showing zero patient responsibility. But more than a year later, a collections notice arrived demanding payment for the same…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (671+ words) A slide from the Jan. 30 FSSA quarterly financial presentation. INDIANAPOLIS " Indiana's social services agency plans to rebid $68 billion worth of health care contracts in August for vulnerable Hoosiers making up 20% of the state's population. Mitch Roob, secretary of the Family…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (374+ words) Parkview Health announced it has partnered with national non-profit Undue Medical Debt to abolish $64. 13 million in debt for 35, 694 patients. Screenshot from Google Maps. FORT WAYNE " Parkview Health announced Tuesday, Jan. 13 it has partnered with national non-profit Undue Medical Debt to…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (529+ words) Ink Free News. com Editor's Note: This article was published in the January issue of Glo, a publication of The Papers Inc. FORT WAYNE " It's no secret that Americans are spending record-setting amounts on healthcare. Costs of basic life-saving medications,…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (219+ words) Beginning Jan. 1, a subsidiary of Indianapolis-based Elevance Health plans to reduce reimbursement by 10% on commercial insurance claims when care is delivered by out-of-network clinicians at in-network hospitals. Graphic from Elevance Health. The change targets situations in which hospitals rely on…...