While insurers get the blame for rising health-care costs for consumers, surging fees from hospitals and the growing dominance of such providers may be just as responsible for driving up expenses, according to a new study examining California's market.

Indianapolis-based Vortek Surgical LLC will relocate to Brownsburg, expanding its headquarters, manufacturing and distribution operations and creating more than 60 jobs in the next three years.

Clarian Health and the Indiana University School of Medicine want their planned neurosciences hub to become a destination for patients suffering from brain, nerve and mental maladies—and for the government and industry research dollars that can fuel advances in care.

The Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County got good news in its first round of borrowing to finance a new Wishard Hospital: so far, it is paying less than planned.

Employer activism is on the rise when it comes to keeping hospitals honest in their negotiations with health insurers. Executives at Indianapolis-based WellPoint say more employers are airing their displeasure when hospital systems ask for double-digit reimbursement increases.

Indianapolis' Metropolitan Development Commission sets $667,500 minimum price for the long-vacant property at Meridian and 32nd Streets.

St. Vincent Health is near an agreement to take over The Care Group LLC, the city's largest independent physician practice and largest cardiology group in the nation.

St. Vincent Health's agreement to lease the county hospital in Salem for five years is the latest in a string of deals by Indianapolis hospital systems seeking a statewide presence.

The massive far-east-side facility already launders linen for 30 hospitals and 400 clinics in Indiana, handling more than 36 million pounds of soiled linen each year.

Observers expect a lull with inpatient facilities for five years or more, but continued proliferation of outpatient clinics and surgery centers.

It’s the latest exhalation by a local hospital after massive investment losses and a scary economy forced them to tighten their belts a year ago.

Lebanon-based hospital system also wants to refinance about $21 million in debt on new medical office building.

Legislation set to come out of Washington will not change the most fundamental problems of the health care system, leaving it up to states, cities and companies to figure out what to do about it.

Legal complaint alleges new $20 million facility in Greenwood breaches partnership deal struck in 2001.

Hundreds of potential contractors turned out for informational meetings this week about construction work on a new Wishard Memorial Hospital.

The $7.8 million medical office building in McCordsville will allow the hospital to tap patients with private insurance.

When Sisters of St. Francis Health Services Inc. bought Tonn and Blank Construction Co. in 1998, more than one employee of the Michigan City firm wondered what it would be like to be run by a Roman Catholic order that not only owned a string of Midwestern hospitals but also traced its spiritual heritage to a 12th century mystic.

After winning 83-percent support for $754 million hospital, Wishard officials hope to sell bonds, pick construction firm by year's end.

Unofficial results from Tuesday night's special election show more than eight out of 10 Marion County voters supporting a new $754 million hospital for Wishard Health Services.

The Wishard Foundation said it has received a $6 million grant from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation that will be used to help fund construction of a new Wishard Hospital, if Marion County voters approve the project.

Tuesday's vote will determine if Marion County Health & Hospital Corp. can sell up to $703 million in taxpayer-backed bonds to replace the county-owned hospital.

Clarian Health has resumed construction on its Saxony Medical Center in Fishers after an 8-month hiatus, the Indianapolis-based hospital system announced Friday.

Doctors are considering their options as health care reform gains momentum.

Presenting five video excerpts from a free-wheeling panel discussion about health-care reform featuring five of the city's top decision-makers. J.K. Wall moderates the IBJ's Power Breakfast, covering tort reform,illegal immigrants, pay models and insurance companies.

The business park would encompass about 900 acres on the town’s northeast side and require rezoning of much of the land, from residential and agriculture to commercial.