May 25, 2013
J.K. WallJoe Swedish, a career hospital executive, is now two months into his job at the helm of Indianapolis-based WellPoint, the
nation’s second-largest health insurer. In his first interview since starting work, Swedish indicated he’s taking
his time to learn the people and the culture of the vast organization he now leads.
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May 23, 2013
Bloomberg NewsCalifornia residents who choose to buy health insurance through the state exchange being created by the Affordable Care Act
may end up paying higher premiums.
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May 20, 2013
J.K. WallWith premiums for health insurance likely to head north next year as President Obama’s health care reform law fully
takes effect, both individuals and employers will pay for more health care out of their own funds and buy less insurance.
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May 20, 2013
J.K. WallThe study results, which will be released Monday afternoon, are part of Indianapolis-based Lilly’s campaign to get Medicare
to pay for use of its brain imaging agent Amyvid.
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May 20, 2013
IBJ Staff and Associated PressGreenwood officials three years ago approved $8.4 million of incentives for the Elona Biotechnologies project, including the
construction loan.
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May 18, 2013
J.K. WallThe future of Indiana’s sprawling health care and life sciences industry might be threatened by an unlikely source:
smartphone apps.
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May 17, 2013
J.K. WallRoche Diagnostics Corp. is considering a sale of its blood-glucose meter business, a move that would cast uncertainty over
the nearly 1,000 people working for its diabetes business in Indianapolis.
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May 17, 2013
IBJ convened a panel of experts at its Life Sciences Power Breakfast on May 10 to talk about the industry issues
of venture capital, digital health innovations and research university entrepreneurship.
Panel members included Kristin Eilenberg, CEO, Lodestone Logic, Infuse Accelerator; Philip S. Low, Purdue University professor
of chemistry, founder and chief science officer at Endocyte Inc. and On Target Laboratories LLC; R. Matthew Neff, president,
CHV Capital Inc.; Brian Stemme, project director; BioCrossroads; Brian S. Williams, director, Global Healthcare Strategy,
PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd.; and Raul Zaveleta, CEO, Indigo BioSystems Inc.
The following is an unedited transcript of the discussion.
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May 16, 2013
Bloomberg NewsEli Lilly claims recent decisions by Canadian courts invalidating 17 drug patents have made the country an outlier among major
developed countries.
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May 15, 2013
IBJ StaffGeorge Bowman, 43, and Traci L. Bowman, 42, are accused of falsifying purchase records and fraudulently filing insurance claims
for expensive construction equipment they never purchased.
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May 14, 2013
Greg AndrewsOutside observers cast the departures of Lenox Baker, Sheila Burke and Susan Bayh as a positive that will allow new CEO Joseph
Swedish to recast the board.
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May 14, 2013
Bloomberg NewsEli Lilly and Co. CEO John Lechleiter underwent a scheduled surgery Monday for a heart defect, and the repair to the aorta
is functioning as intended, the Indianapolis-based drugmaker said.
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May 13, 2013
Bloomberg NewsLenox Baker, Sheila Burke and Susan Bayh resigned from the board effective immediately, Indianapolis-based WellPoint said
Monday in a regulatory filing.
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May 13, 2013
Associated PressDr. Jay Hess was picked to become the 10th dean in the school of medicine's 110-year history and the first dean in the past
five to come from outside IU.
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May 13, 2013
J.K. WallThe state's medical-device companies are finding that they cannot pass on the new medical-device tax created by Obamacare
to their hospital customers, causing them to continue to make cuts and to look to foreign markets for more profitable growth.
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May 13, 2013
Rather than raising prices on private health insurers to make up for inadequate payments from the government, hospitals across
the country have been raising prices just because they can, according to a new study.
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May 11, 2013
The 133 full-time jobs the truck and auto insurer plans to add over the next five years will pay around $60 an hour, or nearly
$125,000 a year.
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May 11, 2013
Greg AndrewsA federal bankruptcy judge has slapped down an Anderson church that attempted to blame its bank for a failed scheme to finance
church upgrades by buying life insurance policies on its elderly members.
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May 10, 2013
Bloomberg NewsThe drug, enzastaurin, was in the most advanced stage of testing and had been expected to generate $260 million in annual
sales by 2018.
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May 8, 2013
IBJ StaffWarner relies on funds from the Indiana Family and Social Administration, but the FSSA recently decided to end that funding
after numerous complaints against the company went unresolved.
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May 7, 2013
J.K. WallThe appointment is the first high-profile post that Braly, 51, has accepted since she was ousted from the top spot at the
Indianapolis-based health insurer in August.
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May 7, 2013
Mason KingFive of the six Hoosier firms that appear in the 2013 rankings slipped from their positions in last year's list of the largest
U.S. companies.
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May 6, 2013
J.K. WallJohn Lechleiter has been suffering from a dilated aorta, Eli Lilly and Co. said Monday. Current CFO Derica Rice will take
his place until later this summer.
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May 6, 2013
J.K. WallThe effort to launch the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute got $25 million from the Legislature, but the life sciences
institutions backing the effort have set their funding sights much higher.
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May 6, 2013
J.K. WallLilly will eliminate 1,624 positions from its U.S. sales force in July, according to a notice the company made to state officials.
But some of those workers may be rehired by the firm.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.