Legislators on the state’s Medicaid Advisory Committee spent hours Wednesday questioning state officials about Indiana’s ongoing lawsuit over provisions of the Healthy Indiana Plan as well as progress reports on the state’s transition to managed care.... Read More
Vicki Stanford loves the days when she gets to attend Still Waters Adult Day Center. At the Indianapolis facility, the 81-year-old paints, attends tea parties and presses flowers but, more importantly, she gets to socialize with “people just like me.”... Read More
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. is seeing rising momentum and growing quarterly success. Lilly's 2024 Q2 profits rose by 36%, driven by Mounjaro, Zepbound and Verzenio. The company's full-year revenue outlook has grown by $3 billion.... Read More
Prior to May of 2021, James “Jim” Densmore lived alone and worked a full-time remote job in central Indiana as a quality systems data analyst. But when he stopped answering his phone, his family started to worry.... Read More
Hendricks Regional Health has promoted its controller and director of finance to the position of chief financial officer. Andrew Pyle assumed his new role Aug. 10, the health system said in a news release.... Read More
Attorneys trying to preserve attendant care services for two Hoosier families appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt on Tuesday, urging her to order an injunction that would halt their transition to structured family care. An injunction would apply only to the two families named in the suit, though it’s possible the injunction […]... Read More
The Eli Lilly and Company and Purdue University Research Alliance Center, or LPRC, is part of an existing partnership between the two entities that was expanded in 2023.... Read More
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has dismissed a case against IU Health after a judge’s ruling found the case lacking. Rokita filed a federal lawsuit in September against IU Health, claiming the state’s largest hospital system did not properly enforce...... Read More
Indiana has received a federal grant to expand a program to support expectant and new mothers with substance use disorders. The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration received the three-year, up to $2.7 million grant to expand its...... Read More
Robin Newhouse, who has served as dean of the Indiana University School of Nursing for a decade, has stepped down. The university announced this month that following an administrative leave, Newhouse will retire from IU Indianapolis in June 2025.... Read More
The operator of drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinics statewide plans to build a 90-bed residential treatment facility in Merrillville. The town said Harsha Recovery Center has received town council approval to open a behavioral health treatment facility.... Read More
Evansville has been named the state’s latest—and largest—Clean Community by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. The designation recognizes Indiana municipalities that have taken steps to make their communities cleaner and healthier.... Read More
Hospital stays often involve multiple sticks and blood draws. Now, a Fort Wayne based healthcare system is using a new tool to help reduce the amount of sticks a patient experiences.... Read More
The Indiana Department of Insurance has launched the Indiana All Payer Claims Database website, a highly anticipated legislative effort to provide transparency to health care costs and allow consumers to compare prices across multiple health systems.... Read More
A $53,000 grant from Bethany Legacy Foundation will help a pregnancy and counseling services center in Madison better serve clients coping with adverse child experiences. Life Choices Clinic will use the funds to establish a new staff position to use...... Read More
Some of Indiana’s not-for-profit hospitals appear to have stalled when it comes to providing charitable care, though health care systems continue to send thousands of Hoosiers to court over unpaid sums as small as $250. Federal and state regulators have...... Read More
A startup founded by a Notre Dame alum who leveraged the university’s IDEA Center to further develop his company’s sleep aid device has secured a $500,000 investment. Sleep Easy Technology CEO Anthony Esplin plans to use the funds to promote...... Read More
Plaintiffs rejected a state motion to reinstate its authority to impose premium-like charges on Medicaid beneficiaries under the Healthy Indiana Plan late Friday, urging the court to reject the state’s arguments.... Read More
Trilogy Health Services, one of the Midwest’s largest senior-living companies, is growing in Indiana again. The Louisville-based company said this month it plans to expand the number of senior residences at its Prairie Lakes health campus in...... Read More
The Indy Chamber has lobbied unsuccessfully since 2018 to raise the state’s cigarette tax, and it is ready to give it another go in the 2025 legislative session. The chamber held a panel discussion this week to help prime the issue. ... Read More
