Hoosiers enrolled in Medicaid – and their family members or caregivers – may have a chance to directly contribute to policy and administrative discussions. The Family and Social Services Administration is accepting applications for the Beneficiary Advisory Council.

Donated human milk is particularly important for babies in the neonatal intensive care unit whose mothers may be unable to breastfeed them.

Youth tobacco use in Indiana continues to trend downward — largely due to a decrease in e-cigarette use. But a new survey shows the percentage of students who tried nicotine pouches more than doubled since 2022.

Indiana is introducing new tools on July 1 to evaluate if children and infants qualify for home- and community-based services through Medicaid. The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration said the criteria hasn't changed, but some children may no longer qualify based on the new assessment tools.

The White House budget proposal would roll back next year's federal HIV prevention funding to levels not seen since around 1987.

The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration wants the federal government to give it the authority to roll back Medicaid eligibility for the state's expansion program. The agency's top official said it would need that authority in order to afford the program under recent changes proposed by the U.S. Senate.

More than 90 percent of Hoosiers have health insurance. But, an official from Gov. Mike Braun's administration said while that's a large percentage, it can be a little misleading.

Indiana lawmakers expanded the state's ban on noncompete agreements for physicians to include doctors employed by hospitals. A previous version of that bill would have extended the ban to all physicians but lawmakers ultimately scaled it back.

A recent proposal by the U.S. Senate could require Indiana to "roll back eligibility" in its Medicaid expansion program — the Healthy Indiana Plan, or HIP. That's according to the top official at the state Family and Social Services Administration.

Indiana state and local governments expect to receive up to $100 million over the next 15 years from a settlement with one of the companies and families accused of fueling the country's opioid abuse crisis.