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The Journal Gazette profiled IBHC Executive Director Beth Lock, highlighting the Collaborative’s work to tackle Indiana’s biggest healthcare challenges through employer driven partnerships and evidence based solutions. The feature underscores IBHC’s focus on strengthening primary and preventive care; improving affordability, quality, and access simultaneously; and advancing innovative payment and workforce strategies that support Hoosier employers and families.

Across Indiana, long-standing pressures are converging on our healthcare eco-system: healthcare workforce shortages that limit access, health outcomes that fall short of expectations, and costs that strain employers, government, and healthcare stakeholders alike. While efforts in recent years have made some progress, Indiana still ranks in the bottom tier nationally on too many key measures of health and wellness.

Indiana is behind the nation and peer-states in access to primary care and use of preventive services—gaps that are contributing to poorer health outcomes and higher healthcare costs, with growing implications for the state’s economic competitiveness, according to a new report from the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health.

The Indiana Business Health Collaborative (IBHC) has entered into an association management services agreement with Lock Strategies, LLC. Under this agreement, Beth Lock, President and Owner of Lock Strategies, will serve as the new CEO/Executive Director to the IBHC, effective March 9, 2026. Lock will provide day-to-day operational management, membership engagement, and statewide advocacy on behalf of the IBHC.

A new report shows Indiana’s total health care spending is in line with neighboring states and the national average, but Indiana does differ in other key areas.

A new report from the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health outlines the most recent publicly available data on a wide range of factors impacting health care costs and outcomes in Indiana, including spending by industry, market characteristics, and Hoosiers’ health conditions...  

Earlier this month, the RAND Corp. published its annual report examining commercial hospital prices as a percentage of Medicare reimbursements across the 50 states.

Keeping Hoosiers healthy and productive is critical to keeping our economy strong.

A new advocacy group involving some major Indiana businesses and hospital systems aims to influence ways to lower health care costs in the state.

Fifteen Indiana businesses, including major employers and health care entities, announced a coalition Thursday to tackle health care reform, reduce costs and bolster the workforce.

Several Indiana employers, universities and health care organizations have joined forces with the goal of reducing health care costs and maintaining a healthy workforce.

Major Indiana employers today announced the creation of the Indiana Business Health Collaborative (IBHC)...