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Right to hope: New law lets patients request untried drugs, but many skeptical

The federal right-to-try law passed this year after similar legislation was adopted in dozens of states, including Indiana. While the law aims to give patients hope for a new treatments or cures, it does not guarantee they will have access because drugmakers can still turn down requests for their experimental medicines.

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Former Mainscape CEO sentenced in nursing home kickback scheme

July 11, 2018

Associated Press and Indianapolis Business Journal Staff

Westrick: Summer study committees to focus on health-related topics

July 11, 2018

While the list of health-related bills that took effect this year is lengthy, there is still more health-related work to be done. The Interim Study Committee on Public Health, Behavioral Health, and Human Services will meet later this summer and fall.

Hadler: Changes to CMS Nursing Home Compare provide better data

July 11, 2018

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regularly monitors and publishes comparative data for nursing homes throughout the nation. In Indiana, there are 551 facilities that receive Medicare and/or Medicaid reimbursement and are thereby subject to this regulation.

Nursing home exec Burkhart handed stiff sentence for kickback scheme

June 29, 2018

John Russell and Indianapolis Business Journal Staff

James Burkhart's hopes for a light sentence were dashed Friday afternoon when a federal judge handed down a 9-1/2-year sentence for his role in leading a massive kickback scheme as CEO of Indiana’s largest chain of nursing homes.

Federal lawsuit challenges Notre Dame’s birth control rules

June 27, 2018

A lawsuit has been filed in Indiana challenging Notre Dame University’s plan to make health plan members share in birth control costs.

Justices won’t hear nursing home moratorium appeal

June 25, 2018

Dave Stafford

A majority of Indiana’s Supreme Court let stand Indiana’s moratorium on nursing home construction. The 3-2 ruling is a loss for Carmel-based Mainstreet Property Group, which sought to overturn the ban.

7th Circuit reinstates pain clinic’s claim against billing provider

June 21, 2018

Katie Stancombe

A chronic pain clinic that lost more than a year’s worth of insurance claims through its billing software had its potentially multi-million-dollar breach of contract claim against the provider reinstated Wednesday by the 7^th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Lower costs, fewer benefits in new health insurance option

June 19, 2018

Associated Press

The Trump administration Tuesday rolled out a health insurance option for small businesses and self-employed people that could lead to lower premiums but may also cover fewer benefits than current plans.

College skirts health care law’s birth control rule

June 7, 2018

Associated Press

A northern Indiana college has won its long-running lawsuit seeking a religious exemption from paying for employees’ birth control under former President Barack Obama’s health care law.

Justices allow Arkansas to enforce abortion restrictions

May 30, 2018

Associated Press

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Arkansas to enforce restrictions on how so-called abortion pills can be administered while a legal challenge to the restrictions proceeds, which critics say effectively ends that option for women in the state.

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