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Governor Braun Celebrates Indiana Health Care Reform At Ceremonial Bill Signing





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Fox 59
David Gay
June 19, 2025

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At a ceremonial bill signing on Wednesday, Indiana Gov. Mike Braun announced
that the state of Indiana is “leading the nation in health care reform.”

Braun ceremoniously signed 10 bills into law on Wednesday, laws that Braun
believes will “bring substantial reform to health care in Indiana” through the
following solutions:

* Lowering prices
* Health care price transparency
* Eliminating anti-competitive practices
This is something that Braun spoke about at length about these goals during
his campaign and during his State of the State address. According to previous
reports, Braun said some healthcare-related topics were seen as “too tough to
tackle.”

“I promised Hoosiers I would take on the big health care industry and get
solutions to the problems making health care unaffordable,” Braun said in a
news release surrounding the ceremonial bill signing. “My partners in the
General Assembly and I have enacted landmark health care solutions to bring
transparency, accountability, and competition to our health care system.
Indiana is now the national leader in health care reform and lowering prices
for patients.”

Several bills were celebrated on Wednesday, according to the release,
including:



House Bill 1003: Health matters

The release said that this was a “priority agenda” bill this session, a bill
that incorporated “a number of provisions intended to bring transparency,
accountability and enforcement mechanisms to the health care industry.”


The bill included the following measures:

* Empowers Hoosiers with rare and terminal diseases by expanding the state’s
right to try statute to include individualized treatments.
* Codified federal protections against surprise medical bills
* Clarified that patients and employers have an absolute right to access
their health information and claims data at no cost.
Reduced the turnaround time from five days to 48 hours in which providers and
insurers must provide a good faith estimate for a patient’s out-of-pocket costs
for in-patient and/or out-patient treatment.


House Bill 1004: Health care matters

The release said that this legislation introduced additional initiatives,
including:

Hospital cost transparency.


Requires a nonprofit hospital system to submit audited financial statements.

Requires an Indiana nonprofit hospital system’s aggregate average inpatient
and outpatient hospital prices to be equal to or less than the statewide
average by 2029

Establishes a Medicaid state-directed payment program for hospitals.


SB 2: Medicaid matters

Officials said this legislation creates “several Medicaid reforms around
eligibility, reporting, work requirements and presumptive eligibility.”


SB 3: Fiduciary duty in health plan administration

This bill requires pharmacy benefit managers and third party administrators
“to have a fiduciary duty to the plan sponsor” that the managers and
administrators are acting on behalf on.


SB 140: Pharmacy benefits

The release said that this bill prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from
utilizing “anti-competitive contracting and business practices against
pharmacies.”


SB 118: 340B drug program report

This legislation requires covered entities participating in the 340B Discount
Drug Program to annually report certain information and financial transactions
to the Indiana Department of Health.


SB 475: Physician noncompete agreements

This bill prohibits hospitals from requiring a physician to enter a noncompete
agreement after July 1.


HB 1604: Cost sharing; out-of-pocked expense credit

This bill requires health plans to credit the amount paid for a lower-cost,
out-of-pocket healthcare service toward an individual’s deductible. This comes
regardless of whether or not the service was provided by an in-network or
out-of-network provider.


HB 1666: Ownership of healthcare providers

The release said this bill requires hospitals, insurers, pharmacy benefit
managers, third party administrators and entities that accept Medicaid and
Medicare to report ownership information to the state.


SB 480: Prior authorization

The release said this legislation “revises Indiana’s prior authorization
regulatory framework to better protect the provider-patient treatment plan and
timely access to care.”


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