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Lilly bumped up federal lobbying in third quarter
January 4, 2011
Associated PressThe Indianapolis-based drugmaker spent $2.1 million in the three months that ended Sept. 30, a 5-percent increase from the
same quarter last year and a jump of more than 30 percent from the $1.6 million it spent in this year's second quarter.
MoreIndiana Medicaid cuts likely to be followed by more
December 30, 2010
Associated PressThe Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning has approved a series of emergency rules that it expects to save a total of $4.1
million over the next six months, but that will make up for only a small portion of the $31.4 million shortfall the agency
anticipates for the fiscal year.
MoreNursing home firm to pay $376K in Medicaid case
December 6, 2010
Associated PressIndiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller says a nursing home company will pay $376,000 to the state and federal governments over
accusations that it submitted ineligible bills to Medicaid.
MoreHealth reform tripping up Indiana wellness incentive
November 27, 2010
J.K. WallFederal health reform will trump an Indiana law that allows health insurers to offer steep discounts to employers with healthy
workers and which institute aggressive wellness programs, but experts say other provisions will motivate small firms.
MoreAHLRICHS: Turn health reform into pragmatic answers
November 27, 2010
Health reform entrepreneurship could brand Indiana as productive, healthy place for employers to operate.
MoreMed school students share their stories
November 27, 2010
Scott OlsonFive students at Indiana University School of Medicine contemplate whether to opt for family practice or a specialty.
MoreSt. Francis-WellPoint deal is a sign of the times
November 27, 2010
J.K. WallSt. Francis, which operates three Indianapolis-area hospitals, and WellPoint, the giant health insurer, announced this month
that they have agreed to jointly form an accountable care organization.
MoreDrugmakers seek Republican allies to defeat cost-cutting panel
November 15, 2010
Bloomberg NewsPharmaceutical firms led by Eli Lilly are trying to eliminate a government panel aimed at controlling Medicare spending seven
months after they supported the health-care overhaul that created it.
MoreNew estimate drops health plan's cost to Indiana
October 26, 2010
Associated PressA new estimate has lowered the expected cost of the federal health care overhaul to Indiana's state government to perhaps
$2.6 billion over the next decade.
More'Payer mix' playing role in hospital merger
October 20, 2010
J.K. WallMorgan Hospital & Medical Center is on the brink of merging with Clarian Health for a variety of reasons, but one of the
biggest is one that all hospitals are facing in one way or another: a declining payer mix.
MoreHealth reform forces providers, insurers to lay aside rivalries
October 2, 2010
Scott OlsonIn this new age of health care, ushered in by President Obama’s signing in March of a sweeping health care reform law,
health care players are encouraged to remove the gloves if they want to reap the benefits of reform.
MoreReform will boost health care costs, Indianapolis panel predicts
October 2, 2010
Rising costs aren't the only impact of reform, say panelists taking part in a Power Breakfast sponsored
by Indianapolis Business Journal.
Drugmakers’ ‘doughnut hole’ deal to shave sales
October 1, 2010
Bloomberg NewsDrugmakers including Pfizer Inc., AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Eli Lilly and Co. may provide more than $2 billion
in drug discounts to senior citizens next year under a deal pharmaceutical companies made with the White House.
MoreHealth overhaul's $264M question weighs down WellPoint
September 22, 2010
Bloomberg NewsThe failure by state regulators to decide how much insurers must spend on patient care is scaring investors from health-plan
stocks and complicating insurance company decisions.
MoreCommunity moves to integrate doctors
September 15, 2010
J.K. Wall
Community Health now has about 550 physicians, either on its payroll
or committed through integration contracts, who have some of their pay hinge on measures of quality and communication. CEO
Bryan Mills says the hospital system is looking to add even more.
Some states suing feds also claim health subsidies
August 31, 2010
Associated PressAn administration official said Tuesday that seven states, including Indiana, suing the federal government are among 16 already
approved for subsidies to help with the health care costs of early retirees.
MoreiSalus sees business boom as docs chase stimulus cash
August 28, 2010
J.K. WallThe company is seeing a rush of new sales for its Web-based electronic medical record system from doctors, who all stand to
receive bonus payments from the federal stimulus act for computerizing their patient records.
MoreEstimate puts Indiana health overhaul costs at $3.1B
August 25, 2010
Associated PressFamily and Social Services Administration Secretary Anne Murphy and acting Insurance Commissioner Stephen Robertson have sent
Gov. Mitch Daniels a letter that now estimates the overhaul will cost Indiana $235 million more than the previous estimate
in May.
MoreVA hospital, health-info exchange enter pilot project
August 25, 2010
J.K. WallThe Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Indiana Health Information Exchange are going to work to make
their medical record systems talk to each other in a pilot project spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
MoreIndiana Medicaid chief: Feds leave states in dark
July 15, 2010
Associated PressIndiana and other states face a struggle as they grapple with putting the health care changes into place in a relatively short
span of time while they also contend with the economic downtown and strained state budgets.
MoreDoctors breathe a sigh of relief
June 30, 2010
J.K. WallAs doctors threaten to drop Medicare patients, Congress delays cuts for another six months.
MoreWellPoint exec sees health insurer 'oligopoly' coming
June 24, 2010
Bloomberg NewsU.S. health insurers are “moving towards an oligopoly,” a process that this year’s health-care overhaul
will accelerate, the investor-relations chief at WellPoint Inc. said Thursday.
MoreHospital jobs keep growing in recession
June 23, 2010
J.K. WallHospitals continued to be a stable and slightly growing source of jobs and wages in Indiana—for better and for worse.
The sector paid $7.3 billion to 127,000 Hoosiers in 2008, according to the latest data from the American Hospital Association.
MoreMedicare cuts hit doctors as Congress feuds
June 23, 2010
J.K. WallPhysician offices will begin receiving payments from the Medicare that are 21.3-percent below
what they’ve been getting so far this year. Doctors still expect Congress to reverse the payment cuts, but physicians
and the Medicare program will have to reprocess claims, costing both extra money.
MoreObama gives states $250 million to review insurance premiums
June 7, 2010
WellPoint may face the most threat from more aggressive reviews. The Indianapolis insurer is the leader in small-business
and individual policies, areas that have seen the biggest increases in recent years.
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Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.