Senate Republican Agenda Focuses On Public Assistance, Bail
Indiana’s Senate Republicans released a slim priority agenda Wednesday, Jan. 7 – targeting waste, fraud and abuse in Indiana’s food and health care benefit programs.
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Hoosiers Get Extra Time To Choose New Medicaid Plans
Indiana health officials are extending open enrollment for two major Medicaid programs through Dec. 24, giving more time for hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers facing a forced plan change to select another option from the state’s managed care lineup.
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Hoosier Lawmakers Outline Priorities Ahead Of 2026 Session
Indiana legislative leaders signaled Monday, Nov. 17 that the 2026 General Assembly will center on adjustments to long-running policy areas including Medicaid spending, property taxes and economic development.
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State Kicking MDwise From Indiana Medicaid Program
Some 300,000 people covered by Indiana’s Medicaid program will have less than two months to change their health insurance company as state officials are kicking MDwise off the provider list.
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Medicaid Work Requirements Delayed Until 2027 Following Federal Action
Lawmakers who voted to implement work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries next summer will have to wait another six months before they can take effect, and the state is still waiting to hear if the federal government will approve other portions of the health care plan.
Read MoreIndiana Plans Spending Cuts, Reforms Amid Soaring Medicaid Costs
Over the course of a decade, Indiana’s per-enrollee costs for certain Medicaid recipients are expected to surge by 43% and 72% for lower-income and elderly Hoosiers, respectively.
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How Will The Megabill Impact Indiana’s Budget?
Indiana officials are assessing the financial impact on the state budget of the nearly 1,000-page priority megabill Pres.Donald Trump signed into law Friday, July 4.
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Amid Indiana Budget Cuts, Hoosiers Eye Trump Spending Bill
As Congress reviews budget slashes to health care in Pres.Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a new evaluation from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects 16 million Americans, including 1.8 million Medicaid and Healthy Indiana Plan recipients, would go without health insurance.
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FSSA Secretary: Braun Administration ‘Inherited A Mess’
When it comes to the Family and Social Services Administration — which oversees Medicaid alongside other state programs like child care subsidies — Gov. Mike Braun “inherited a mess,” FSSA Secretary Mitch Roob said Friday.
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What Died, Dropped In, During Indiana Legislative Session’s Finale
Controversial language targeting homeless Hoosiers, regulating marijuana-like products and cracking down on illicit massage parlors perished late Thursday — even as Indiana lawmakers crammed changes to a new property tax reform package into an unrelated agency bill to end the session.
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House GOP Overwhelmingly Votes To Impose Medicaid Work Requirements
The Republican supermajority voting bloc in the Indiana House approved Medicaid work requirements on Tuesday, April 8, though such a program change will require federal approval before it can go into effect.
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Indiana’s Medicaid Expansion ‘Trigger’ Law Could Impact Coverage Of 754K Hoosiers
The insurance coverage of hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers could be at risk should the federal government seek to reduce its share of Medicaid costs under the incoming Trump administration.
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Medicaid Advisory Panel Weighs In On HIP Lawsuit, PathWays Transition
Legislators on the state’s Medicaid Advisory Committee spent hours Wednesday, Aug. 21, 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, otherwise known as PathWays.
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Plaintiffs Push Back Against State’s Legal Response In HIP Lawsuit
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.
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Federal Ruling Against Healthy Indiana Plan Potentially Jeopardizes Program
A program providing hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers health insurance could be in jeopardy after a Washington D.C. judge on Thursday vacated a federal approval for the Healthy Indiana Plan.
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Premiums Return For Indiana’s HIP, CHIP Medicaid Enrollees
For the first time in years, certain Indiana Medicaid beneficiaries will start paying premiums again — a concern for advocates who say that enrollees are unprepared and point to federal concerns about the rule’s effectiveness.
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