Senate adopts amendment limiting publication of healthcare business ownership data

The Indiana Senate on March 24, 2025 adopted an amendment to House Bill 16‑66 that makes certain business ownership information collected under the bill confidential.

Senator Johnson, sponsor of the amendment, told colleagues the change is designed to protect individual practitioners and small physician groups from being publicly listed in a way that could expose them to hostile corporate acquisition attempts. "We don't want to expose those businesses directly to that information in the public eye unless it's already covered under Secretary of State information," Johnson said.

The amendment creates a confidentiality clause limited to the new information collected specifically through the bill's reporting process. Johnson said the amendment does not change existing public filings at the Secretary of State, professional licensing agencies (PLA), or the Department of Health; it applies only to the aggregated data produced under this legislation. "We're protecting some of that in this amendment, by creating a…