22+ hour, 55+ min ago  (553+ words) INDIANAPOLIS " The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration is preparing to phase in work requirements for able-bodied Hoosiers ages 19-64 who participate in Medicaid's Healthy Indiana Plan, starting Jan. 1, 2027. The agency released new details this week about early compliance for new…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (313+ words) Ink Free News. com INDIANAPOLIS " Rural hospitals across Indiana are facing mounting financial pressures as low reimbursement rates, workforce shortages and looming federal funding reductions threaten access to health care in many communities. The Indiana Hospital Association reports that nine…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (341+ words) Indiana officials on Friday, May 15, announced what they described as a first-in-the-nation Medicaid financing overhaul designed to pressure hospitals to lower commercial healthcare prices while directing more state and federal funding toward rural and lower-cost providers....

2+ mon, 4+ day 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+ mon, 6+ day 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…...

2+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

2+ mon, 4+ week 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…...

4+ 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…...

5+ mon, 1+ day 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…...

5+ mon, 2+ day 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…...