The AARP poll surveyed about 800 Indiana residents over the age of 50. More than 90 percent support Medicare and efforts to strengthen it.

The study focuses on how much employers are paying for health care plans versus how much the same services would cost using Medicare.

For the nearly 700 rural hospitals in the United States on the brink of financial collapse, relatively small amounts of money can be the difference between life and death.

Governor Eric Holcomb says he wants to see Indiana's Medicaid expansion protected as federal lawmakers debate health care reform.

Sen. Joe Donnelly says he will oppose President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

A grand jury indictment alleges that James Burkhart and three others created shell companies and used them to falsify charges to Medicare and Medicaid.

Phase one of the study, developed by Indiana University's Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Center, placed nurses in the state's nursing homes who were trained to recognize problems in geriatric patients before they turn into full-blown issues that require hospitalization.

There are an estimated 5,500 undocumented immigrants in the United States who have been diagnosed with kidney failure.

The experimental prevention program would be the first of it's kind to receive Medicare coverage.