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Health Care Reform
Insurance mandate lacks teeth, WellPoint CFO says
October 24, 2011
J.K. WallAs constitutional challenges to the health reform law’s mandate to buy insurance advance, WellPoint Inc.’s chief
financial officer reiterated that the company does not object to the mandate, just to its lack of penalties.
MoreHospitals scrambling to buy nursing homes
October 22, 2011
J.K. WallThe hospitals owned by Boone and Hamilton counties are following the lead of Indianapolis-based Wishard Health Services and
its parent organization by acquiring far-flung nursing homes, hoping the strategy proves as lucrative.
MoreBest and worst of times for new docs
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.
MoreIU Health, Howard Regional call off merger talks
October 4, 2011
J.K. WallThe integration of the two not-for-profit hospital systems, approved by Howard Regional's board in late May, is now dead,
the two hospitals announced Monday.
MorePrivate exchange could boost WellPoint profits
October 3, 2011
J.K. WallWellPoint Inc.'s participation in buying a majority stake of the private health insurance exchange operator Bloom Health could
help it get back to its roots as a health insurer—and make a bit more money in the process.
MorePANEL: Reforms to rapidly reshape health care
October 1, 2011
Reform-induced changes dominate health care panel of health care experts convened by Indianapolis Business Journal.
MoreAccountable care 'savior' of doc groups
September 26, 2011
J.K. Wall
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.
Firm tries again with personal health records
September 26, 2011
J.K. WallEven though Google Inc. has given up on the business of electronic personal health records, Fort Wayne-based NoMoreClipboard.com
is launching a new service it thinks will crack open the market.
MoreWellPoint buying private health insurance exchange
September 20, 2011
Bloomberg NewsThe deal helps WellPoint compete for employers with the U.S. state-run marketplaces set to open in 2014 under President Obama’s
health-care overhaul.
MoreRoche hopes to prosper from austerity
September 19, 2011
J.K. WallExecutives at Roche Diagnostics expect the wave of austerity measures being taken by western governments—including the
United States—to as much as double its sales of fluid- and DNA-based tests in the next three years.
MoreWill ACOs really get off the ground?
September 19, 2011
J.K. WallThe hype over accountable care organizations—something every major hospital in Indianapolis is moving to become—is
increasingly being laced with skepticism as the economics behind the idea get more scrutiny.
MoreGloomy outlook for medical device makers
September 12, 2011
J.K. WallThe next four years could be rough for makers of medical devices and orthopedic implants, including Bloomington-based Cook
Medical Inc. and Warsaw-based Zimmer Holding Inc. and Biomet Inc.—and not because of the 2010 health reform law.
MoreStudy: Hospital-doc hookups raising costs
August 22, 2011
J.K. WallIndianapolis doctor tell researchers that hospitals are paying more than $1 million a year to employ some cardiologists.
MoreQ&A
August 22, 2011
J.K. WallAngela Smith, an attorney for hospitals and physicians at Indianapolis-based Hall Render Killian Heath &
Lyman P.C., spoke about Medicare’s value-based purchasing program, a federal initiative that will attempt to shift health
care payments from the fee-for-service model to one based on health outcomes. On July 1, hospitals began being scored on their
performance in 13 categories, including processes, patient outcomes and patient satisfaction surveys. How hospitals score
could boost or diminish all their Medicare payments by as much as 1 percent, beginning in October 2012.
MoreWellPoint spent $1.3M on federal lobbying in 2nd quarter
August 18, 2011
Associated PressWellPoint lobbied on issues tied to the overhaul's implementation and regulations for accountable care organizations,
which are networks of hospitals, doctors, rehabilitation centers and other providers that coordinate a patient's care.
MoreFive individual insurers leaving Indiana
August 8, 2011
J.K. WallHartford-based Aetna Inc. and Philadelphia-based Cigna Corp., the nation’s third- and fifth-largest health insurers
respectively, have announced their departure from Indiana’s individual health insurance market.
MoreWellPoint fails to profit on consumer pullback
August 1, 2011
J.K. WallWith recession-weary Americans going to the doctor less, health insurer WellPoint Inc. should be enjoying higher profits.
But it isn’t working out that way.
MoreConsumers grow allergic to health care costs
August 1, 2011
J.K. WallDeloitte found that 20 percent of consumers have cut back on health care spending and 75 percent say the economic slowdown
has had some impact on their willingness to spend on health care.
MoreWellPoint insures two-thirds of Hoosier workers
July 25, 2011
J.K. WallIndianapolis-based WellPoint claimed 63 percent of all employees covered by small-group employers and 66 percent of the workers
at large-group employers, according to Seattle-based actuarial firm Milliman Inc.
MorePrimary care gets a new approach: prevention
July 20, 2011
Associated PressA budding model for primary care that encourages the family doctor to act as a health coach who focuses as much on preventing
illness as on treating it has shown promising results and saved insurers millions of dollars.
MoreNot-for-profits vying with WellPoint may get $3.8B in loans
July 18, 2011
Bloomberg NewsNot-for-profits that compete with insurers such as WellPoint Inc. are eligible for $3.8 billion in U.S. financing under the
health law, and the government expects more than a third of the loans not to be repaid.
MoreExchange could snag 1.1M Hoosiers
July 18, 2011
J.K. WallAn estimated 1.1 million Hoosiers will obtain health insurance through a yet-to-be-created online exchange, according to the
latest estimates from the task force guiding Indiana’s response to the 2010 health reform law.
MoreCBO: No great savings from health reform
July 18, 2011
J.K. WallDon’t expect the health reform law to tame health care costs. That’s the conclusion of the director of the Congressional
Budget Office, who also suggested some of the simplest ways to moderate costs would be to roll back some of its key provisions.
MoreStudy: Medicaid better than nothing
July 11, 2011
J.K. WallHealth care reform will add roughly 500,000 Hoosiers to the Medicaid program and, in spite of great criticism of that expansion,
a new study suggests Medicaid coverage does help consumers get more care, have fewer unpaid bills and feel better.
MoreEmployers face messy decision to drop health insurance
July 9, 2011
J.K. WallCompanies that drop insurance coverage could, without spending any more money than they are now, give workers an 11-percent
raise or else help them save as much as $2,000 per year buying health coverage in one of the exchanges, IBJ calculations
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Good ole' Obamacare. Thanks liberals and those who didn't bother to vote.
Yes. Blame those who were too lazy to go vote Obama out and those who voted him in again. That's my take on it. I know folks won't get it on the left. OK. Start berating me now!
Serioulsy, people are AGINST this project? Most communities would be salivating over a project like this. You'd rather have an empty eye-sore gas station and shacks posing as apartments? This project is exactly what BR needs. BUILD IT MR MAYOR. And yes, I am a BR resident, and have been for 20 years.
As a St. Vincent employee of over 20 years, I am saddened and disheartened by this announcement. Unfortunately, as the healthcare "industry" continues on this political and corporate path, all that St. Vincent Hospital has stood for spiritually for its employees and this community is being sucked dry. I know it truly has no choice. It is not just Obamacare or just competition or just any single thing. This trend started long before I was even born when the government became involved in healthcare and it became an "industry." I grieve for those who will lose their jobs, one of whom may be me, but I also grieve for this hospital which I have served for over 20 years. May God give us and it the grace to withstand the future of healthcare.
Why do people constantly harp on this issue and act ignorant about what a city population measures? A city's population is the city's population. There is no argument or debate about it. If you want to measure the density of a city--measure it. If you want to measure the size of a metropolitan area, then measure the metropolitan population. City boundaries cover different sized areas--and they always have (though the disparity has probably increased since about 1900 or so when more cities began annexing their surrounding communities). For example, San Francisco only covers 49 square miles while Houston cover nearly 600 square miles. No one argues about the population rankings of either city even though they clearly cover extremely different sized areas. Indianapolis is the 13 largest city by population in the U.S. That is a fact. While the population of a metropolitan area may give you a better sense of how large a community is, as noted, even metro areas can vary widely in the size of geographic area they cover--so that is not a perfect comparison either.