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Brian Tabor \ Indiana Hospital Association \ Michael Hicks \ NERA
Hospital association contests Ball State monopoly study
By Brynna Sentel TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—The Indiana Hospital Association is disputing a Ball State University study of Hoosier hospitals which blames part of the high cost of healthcare on monopolies. Brian Tabor, president of the IHA, criticized the core methodology used in the Ball State study, saying the central thesis, that Hoosier healthcare costs are higher […]
Ball State \ Brian Tabor \ hospital costs \ Indiana Hospital Association \ Michael Hicks
Hospital monopolies drive up health care costs, study shows
By Brynna Sentel TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—Over nearly 20 years Hoosiers went from having lower than average healthcare costs to medical expenses that were much higher than average and a Ball State University study helps explain why. That study, by Ball State’s Michael Hicks, shows that medical expenditures are so high because not-for-profit hospitals have monopolies in […]
Allison Taylor \ FSSA \ Gateway to Work \ Janes Perkins \ Medicaid \ National Health Law Program
Indiana’s Medicaid reporting requirements suspended
By Brandon Barger TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—Indiana officials are temporarily suspending its requirements that Medicaid recipients work, go to school or get some kind of training to qualify for their benefits until a federal lawsuit is resolved. Indiana’s Gateway to Work program required participants to begin reporting work or other qualifying activities in July and those who […]
and Human Services \ Behavioral Health \ David Niezgodski \ DCS \ Ernie Shearer \ Indiana Foster and Adoptive Parents Resources and Advocacy Group \ Interim Study Committee on Public Health \ Kristi Cundiff
Families need more state support in adoptions, committee told
By Brynna Sentel TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—Ernie Shearer and his wife saw their plans of retiring and downsizing their lives change before their eyes when they adopted their four grandchildren who had been removed from their opioid-addicted son and his spouse. Shearer shared the health and behavioral problems the children have experienced as he testified Wednesday before […]
and Human Services \ Behavioral Health \ Dr. Steve Tharp \ e-prescribing \ Interim Study Committee on Public Health \ SEA 176
Doctors argue for exceptions to electronic prescriptions
By Brynna Sentel TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—Physicians who write few prescriptions or treat kidney dialysis patients should be exempt from a new law requiring that all controlled substances be prescribed electronically by Jan. 1, 2021. “Our concern is for those practitioners who work in small practices or outside a large health system that have not yet adopted […]
Department of Health \ flu shot \ Kris Box
Flu season has started so it’s time for a shot
Staff report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS— Cases of influenza are beginning to emerge across the state and the Indiana State Health Department is encouraging Hoosiers to get themselves and their families vaccinated. Since 2015, 800 Hoosiers have died from flu related illnesses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends vaccinations for the influenza virus by the […]
3 Axis \ Behavioral Health and Human Services \ Eli Lilly \ Interim Study Committee on Public Health \ John Steel \ prescription drugs \ Robin Shackleford \ Sa’Ra Skipper
High cost of insulin endangers lives, diabetics tell legislative panel
By Brynna Sentel TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—A legislative study committee heard from Type 1 diabetics who described their daily struggles with pharmaceutical companies, insurance agencies and the healthcare system to get the insulin they need to stay alive. Sa’Ra Skipper testified that she lived off samples and donations of insulin that she shared with her younger sister, […]
Gateway to Work \ health insurance \ Healthy Indiana Plan \ HOOSIER ACTION \ MAXIMUS
Hoosiers protest work requirement for health insurance
By Abrahm Hurt TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—Hoosiers rallied Monday at the Statehouse to protest changes to Indiana’s Medicaid requirements that they say will create more obstacles to health care, cost people their health insurance and profit private companies. The Gateway to Work program requires Healthy Indiana Plan members who aren’t exempt to report to the state 20 […]
Department of Health \ smoking rates \ tobacco \ Todd Young
Smoking rates remain high in Indiana
By Abrahm Hurt TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS–More than one in five Indiana adults smoke cigarettes, one of the highest rates in the nation, while the number of youths using vaping products remains a concern for anti-smoking advocates. The percent of high school students using e-cigarettes in 2016, the last year for which data is available, is double […]
9-1-1 \ American Heart Association \ CPR \ Ron Bacon
New law will require 9-1-1 operators to learn how to deliver CPR by telephone
Editor’s note: This is the first in an occasional series about the impact of legislation passed in the 2019 session of the Indiana General Assembly. By Victoria Ratliff TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—State Rep. Ron Bacon and his wife, Karen, were at their regular dance class when a fellow dance student collapsed in front of them. Bacon and his […]
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