A "comprehensive plan" to address health care costs was approved by the House Tuesday. The bill tackles costs from more than just one angle — including a prior authorization policy that was removed from a Senate bill last week.

Indiana lawmakers want to address rising Medicaid costs in the state budget by overhauling the state’s Medicaid expansion program. The Senate approved legislation that would make several significant changes to the Healthy Indiana Plan, or HIP.

Indiana House lawmakers passed a measure to ban transgender women from competing in collegiate sports Tuesday. The bill seeks to codify a recent executive order from President Donald Trump.

The Indiana Senate passed a bill Monday that would define natural gas and propane as clean energy sources. Senate Bill 178 now moves to the House for consideration.

The Family and Social Services Administration made changes to its proposal to rein in Medicaid spending on a common behavioral treatment. The agency is keeping the lifetime limit on Applied Behavioral Analysis, or ABA, therapy but is introducing coverage tiers based on need.

Indiana House Democrats say the state budget should prioritize public education, health care funding, and relief for working-class Hoosiers.

Employers who sponsor health plans typically utilize administrators, like pharmacy benefits managers, to facilitate those plans. The Senate approved legislation that would clarify those intermediaries have a financial responsibility to the plan sponsors.

Major property tax reform legislation that proponents call a “work in progress” advanced to the House Monday.

The Indiana Youth Institute said there’s some good and some bad in this year’s Kids Count Data Book. Among the positives: Indiana’s median household income grew and child poverty is at its lowest in a decade.

Republicans on a House committee approved a bill Monday to give the attorney general more power to go after businesses that employ undocumented immigrants.