April 6, 2013
J.K. WallBrian and Emily Kahn had virtually identical physical therapy. He paid much more than she did. Why? Because of where the therapy
took place.
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March 2, 2013
J.K. WallThe five-year trend of physician practices marrying up with hospitals has made it harder and harder for independent physician
practices to spend time in more than one hospital system.
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March 1, 2013
J.K. WallThe sequestration plan kicking in Friday will chop Medicare payments to hospitals, doctors and nursing homes by 2 percent,
beginning April 1. One study estimates that the cuts could result in 10,000-plus job losses in Indiana alone.
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February 25, 2013
J.K. WallBetween the new Marian college of medicine and an enrollment expansion at the Indiana University School of Medicine, the state
will have 88 percent more med students by next fall.
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February 9, 2013
J.K. WallAcross the four largest hospital systems in central Indiana, six physicians received more than $1 million in compensation
in 2011 while two others received more than $900,000 and nine others received $700,000 or more, according to the hospitals’
most recent reports to the IRS.
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January 28, 2013
J.K. WallMarian University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine—only the second medical school in Indiana—will enroll
162 students this fall, about 8 percent more than it planned.
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August 28, 2012
IBJ StaffThe Cancer Care Group in Indianapolis said a laptop computer bag containing private information on as many as 55,000 patients
has been stolen.
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August 8, 2012
J.K. WallDr. Craig Brater, 66, has worked at the Indianapolis-based school for 26 years, including the past 12 as dean. The school
is the second largest medical school in the nation and the only one in Indiana.
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July 23, 2012
J.K. WallOnly 1 percent of the jobs given to Texas-based Merritt Hawkins over the past year were for solo practitioners, the physician
recruiting firm reported this month. That’s down from 22 percent of all searches in 2004.
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May 26, 2012
J.K. WallAs St. Vincent Health has nearly doubled the number of physicians it employs over the past two years, the losses on those
practices have mounted. And the same thing is happening at all the major Indianapolis hospital systems, as all have spent
the past four years aggressively acquiring physician practices.
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May 7, 2012
J.K. WallDr. Malaz Boustani, the medical director of Wishard Health Services’ Healthy Aging Brain Center, thinks
pop-up alerts for physicians that are part of many electronic medical record and e-prescribing systems are ineffective and
need to be re-engineered.
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April 23, 2012
J.K. WallA group of 123 doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants have formed the Eskenazi Medical Group in order to focus
on maximizing patient care and related bonus payments at Wishard Health Services.
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March 3, 2012
J.K. WallAnthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield has renewed its push to bring online care to the Indiana market, including video. It has
asked the state’s Medical Licensing Board to relax a 2003 rule that stands in its way.
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January 14, 2012
Sam StallA new onslaught of Medicare data might shine more light on providers, but tricky questions abound.
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December 17, 2011
J.K. WallIndependent health care facilities, like Body One Physical Therapy, are seeing referrals from physicians beginning to slacken
as more and more doctors become employees of hospitals. The hospitals request that doctors send patients to their in-house
physical therapy practices.
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November 26, 2011
Michael Brown / Special to IBJRaising prices is easier when numbers are limited.
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October 31, 2011
J.K. WallThe number of payments in excess of $1 million didn’t change substantially from year to year, but orthopedic companies
sharply cut their fees to surgeons who received the smallest amounts.
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October 29, 2011
J.K. WallRepuChek software tracks, analyzes what's being said about doctors on the Internet.
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October 10, 2011
J.K. WallMedical residents are getting more job offers than before, yet greater numbers of them say if they had it to do over again,
they would not go to medical school.
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October 1, 2011
Reform-induced changes dominate health care panel of health care experts convened by Indianapolis Business Journal.
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September 26, 2011
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Indianapolis’ largest independent physician group, American Health Network, doesn’t want to sell to a hospital,
but its CEO hopes it can hold on until accountable care kicks in.
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July 16, 2011
J.K. WallNine family-practice doctors are set to leave their large physician group and join Noblesville's Riverview Hospital, more
than tripling their revenue-generating potential.
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June 17, 2011
J.K. WallCentral Indiana Cancer Centers sold its five facilities to IU Health and transferred its 150 employees to the Indianapolis-based
hospital system. The 16 physicians in the practice will remain independent, but they have signed a service agreement with
IU Health that pulls the two entities into a tight embrace.
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May 31, 2011
J.K. WallIndianapolis may be reaching a saturation point for hospitals employing physicians, according to the latest report from the
Center for Studying Health System Change.
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May 23, 2011
J.K. WallOrthoIndy, the physician practice that owns the Indiana Orthopaedic Hospital, was able to open a new outpatient facility this
spring by working around growth restrictions in the 2010 health care reform law. But its choices for further growth are much
starker—which is why it's lobbying to repeal that provision of the law.
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First, the Athenaeum is going to have to get past the hurdle with the Lockerbie residents and the agreement that the parcel would be residential. Second, and in my opinion, this prime piece of property should include parking, PLUS, a black box theater(s), some market rate and affordable artist housing and a plan to renovate and reconfigure the second story theater. I would negotiate to add the DeHaan property surface parking lot into the development mix, place a one story surface parking garage on the DeHaan lot on the street level (for the Dehaan tenants use during the daytime) and add a second story to the garage that would become an addition to the current second story theater and then change the direction of the theater by moving the stage across the alley and on top of the DeHaan lot parking. You can add all the stage elements that are currently missing from the Athenaeum stage to make it more attractive for use by Ballet, Opera and traveling productions. Plus, the theater changes would probably help solve some of the soundproofing issues. Alas,it does not seem to be a part of the strategic plan to conduct a study to determine best use of the property. Seems like the current plan is a quick and easy move that ignores the property best use/potential and any strategic property planning for the effect on future generations.
I recall that MSA's pilings are still in the ground and hard to remove. It’s not likely any proposal will include significant underground construction/parking because of this. Start adding 2 floors of retail, 8 floors of parking and 5-10 floors of possible hotel, and/or 10-20 floors of residential, and you are at 30 floors already with possible expansion of all the uses. But then again I could be wrong.
Accoriding to their website there is no deadline to the Do Not Call list. What is this article referring to??
On what planet are they entitled to this largesse from the stockholders? These people make multi-million dollar salaries: Pay for your own personal travel.
It matters because they're already paid enormously fat salaries: Pay for your own personal travel. Being "taxed on it" isn't a valid excuse--so what? They're still being gifted a raft of luxury perks from somebody else's money on top of an enormous, lavish salary.