Legislative leaders say the future of Indiana's health care program, HIP 2.0, is uncertain with some federal lawmakers aiming to repeal its funding source.

Some health policy experts argue the information presented by the state on its application to renew its Healthy Indiana Plan actually shows that the program is not working as well as it should.

The state has applied to keep HIP 2.0 running for three more years.

Indiana announced Tuesday it wants the federal government to renew HIP 2.0, the state's Medicaid expansion program, for three years.

A repeal could affect millions of Americans who gained coverage through Medicaid expansion, including about 250,000 Hoosiers.

Legal and health care advocates say the requirement for Hoosiers to pay into the state's HIP 2.0 system is causing problems.

Most of the state prison systems in the places that expanded Medicaid under Obamacare have come up short on enrolling exiting inmates, despite the fact that many of them are chronically ill.

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.