Indiana's legislative leaders sent a letter to the state's health care providers and insurers a few months ago. In it, they told them to act now to reduce health care costs or lawmakers will take steps to do so next year.

Indiana University Health said Thursday that it will hold prices flat for the next four years for all commercial payers -- the insurance companies that offer health plans, chiefly through employers.

Administrative burdens — like haggling with insurers over payments — cut into the already low reimbursement rates Medicaid provides doctors for services. This can disincentivize doctors from accepting Medicaid, according to a new working paper from the University of Chicago.

More than 100 drivers at a Pepsi bottling facility in northwest Indiana have been on strike for over two weeks now, fighting against a proposed increase in health care costs.

Indiana could pay about 50 percent more a year for prison medical services with a new contractor picked by state officials.

The Indiana Chamber of Commerce's 2020 Snapshot shows Indiana continues to lag behind other states in key economic areas including health care costs, new entrepreneurs and high electricity rates.

The Lilly Insulin Value Program covers most insulins made by the drug maker and is available to those with or without insurance.

Indiana Farm Bureau members will have another health care option available to them for next year. Indiana joins a growing list of states with farm bureaus to offer health benefit plans.

The legislative push comes at a time when Indiana farmers say profit margins are tight and health care costs are challenging.

House lawmakers moved forward with a bill Tuesday aimed at increasing the transparency of health care costs in the state.