Medicaid spending on three important medications used to treat opioid addiction increased 136 percent nationwide between 2011 and 2016.

If approved, the plan requires HIP members to put in time each week working, job hunting, job training or studying-or risk having their health care suspended.

The reductions, along with a series of tax cuts, are part of an ambitious attempt from the administration to balance the federal budget in the next ten years.

Medicaid providers in Indiana and around the country have begun to provide some unique benefits to their customers, benefits that have more to do with success in life than health care.

An estimated 500 youth in Indiana age out of foster care system every year and when they do, they will lose health insurance if they don't re-enroll.

This year's telemedicine bill allows coverage for people on Medicaid.

The law would not require Medicaid to cover mental health and substance use treatment.

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.