Hospital administrators like Baptist Health Floyd’s Michael Schroyer, left, and Goshen Health’s Randy Christophel, urged senators to reconsider a bill establishing “price caps” on their services. (Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
Nearly every lawmaker on the Senate Health and Provider Services Committee voted in favor of a house priority bill on Wednesday, but few seemed happy about it.
“This is probably the worst bill — collectively, as a total — that I have seen in many years,” said Sen. Jean Leising, R-Oldenburg. “I have to support this bill because of the (hospital assessment fee) language … assuming (it) might help the HAF continue through the legislative process.”…