The Alzheimer’s Association Greater Indiana Chapter is hosting several free education programs at Kosciusko Community Senior Services, located at 800 N. Park Ave., Warsaw. The Association will host “Know the 10 Signs” from 10-11:30 a.m. Monday, March 16. This is an introductory program that provides attendees with an understanding of the difference between age-related memory …read more.

The State of Indiana announced that the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services have approved renewal of the Healthy Indiana Plan. News of the approval came Friday evening. “This decision by the federal government to renew our current Healthy Indiana Plan is welcome news and will bring certainty to the more than 60,000 Hoosiers who …read more.

Indiana hospitals face an additional $844 million in cuts over 10 years under the sequester expected to begin at midnight. Under sequestration, Medicare payments to providers will be cut by two percent. Approximately 16,500 health care and related jobs could be lost in Indiana by 2021 as a result of cuts triggered by the Budget …read more.

Catamaran, a leading provider of technology and pharmacy benefit management services, today announced it has been awarded HCIT contracts to provide implementation, adjudication, and certain PBM services to the State of Indiana’s Medicaid program. The contracts are for a total of six years, not including two one-year options, and total approximately $60 million over the …read more.

After two years of waiting for a response, the state has learned it may be forced to close enrollment for the 42,000-plus people in the Healthy Indiana Plan beginning next year. Family and Social Services Administration Secretary Michael Gargano recently received notification from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a division of the U.S. …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s decision to deny Planned Parenthood Medicaid funds because it performs abortions denies women the freedom to choose their health care providers, a federal hearing officer said. The state had asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Chicago to reconsider its June 2011 ruling that found changes in Indiana’s Medicaid …read more.