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COLWELL: Indianapolis strategizes for health care reformRestricted Content

April 6, 2013
AnnJeanette Colwell
The recent flurry of big announcements portends well.
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Sequester could sap $200M from Indiana health care providers

March 1, 2013
J.K. Wall
The 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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Indianapolis tech firms, hospitals discover mutual needRestricted Content

October 20, 2012
Chris O'Malley
An initiative is matching tech entrepreneurs with hospital officials in the hope of solving health care problems.
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Suburban hospitals charm patients

July 23, 2012
J.K. Wall
A little extra Medicare money will flow to suburban hospitals in the Indianapolis area, based on recent patient satisfaction scores. But hospitals in the core of Indianapolis—and hospitals that do significant amounts of teaching medical students—may take a hit.
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Insurance company key to Franciscan-American Health partnershipRestricted Content

July 21, 2012
J.K. Wall
Hospital system's health insurance unit has IT infrastructure that will allow physicians to participate in Medicare's shared savings program.
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Local providers join Medicare ACO program

July 9, 2012
J.K. Wall
Indiana University Health, as well as a partnership of Franciscan Alliance and American Health Network, have formed accountable care organizations that won the blessing of the federal Medicare Shared Savings program.
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Physician buyouts bruising hospitalsRestricted Content

May 26, 2012
J.K. Wall
As 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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OBEIME: Poor, uninsured won't monopolize resourcesRestricted Content

May 12, 2012
Myth prevents policymakers from attacking real problem of distributing funding.
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Loss of St. Francis puts Beech Grove at crossroadsRestricted Content

April 14, 2012
Cory Schouten
There is a mix of sadness, grief and anger in Beech Grove, as Franciscan Alliance moves the last of its inpatient and emergency operations from its nearly 100-year-old Beech Grove hospital to the new Franciscan St. Francis facility at Stop 11 Road and Emerson Avenue.
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Patient referrals can be lucrative for hospitalsRestricted Content

March 17, 2012
Scott Olson
Physician liaisons are becoming key in recruiting efforts.
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Franciscan pulls back Greenwood plans

March 5, 2012
J.K. Wall
Franciscan St. Francis Health said its plans to build an emergency room and physician office building in Greenwood are on hold due to uncertainty over the effects of health care reform.
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Franciscan to mark Beech Grove closure

February 27, 2012
J.K. Wall
Franciscan St. Francis Health announced five years ago that it would consolidate its Beech Grove operations into an expanded hospital seven miles south, near Interstate 65 and Emerson Avenue. The last inpatient department to close at Beech Grove will be its emergency room, on March 16.
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Franciscan among Medicare's first accountable care groups

December 19, 2011
J.K. Wall
Franciscan Alliance’s Indianapolis-area hospitals, along with more than 700 physicians, have been named one of the nation’s first 32 accountable care organizations.
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IU Health fights Franciscan over family doc

August 15, 2011
J.K. Wall
IU Health Morgan Hospital sued Dr. Dianna Boyer on Aug. 3 to stop her from moving her practice to a facility Franciscan St. Francis Health is building in Martinsville.
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Groups call for probe of St. Francis hospital over charity care

June 22, 2011
J.K. Wall
Citizens Action Coalition Education Fund and Indiana Legal Services Inc. claim that “a good number” of Indianapolis south-side residents who should have qualified for reduced or waived bills at St. Francis were instead steered into payments plans.
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Hospitals may be near saturation point on physician hiringRestricted Content

June 4, 2011
 IBJ Staff
Over the last three years, all major hospitals in Indianapolis have been active in hiring physicians. Competition was especially intense for cardiologists.
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Q&A

May 23, 2011
J.K. Wall
Bob Brody, CEO of Franciscan St. Francis Health, which operates three hospitals in central Indiana as part of the 13-hospital Franciscan Alliance system, discussed the rationale for its decision to take control of Visiting Nurse Service Inc.
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Franciscan Alliance takes control of VNS home health agency

May 19, 2011
J.K. Wall
Visiting Nurse Service Inc., a 200-employee agency based in Indianapolis, will operate under the umbrella of Franciscan St. Francis Health, the organizations announced Thursday.
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Health care providers opening to technologyRestricted Content

May 14, 2011
Katie Maurer
Some health care system are finally allowing online scheduling.
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Franciscan Alliance plans 84 jobs at Greenwood billing center

March 30, 2011
 IBJ Staff
The Mishawaka-based Franciscan Alliance plans to spend $8.4 million to open an administrative center in Greenwood, creating 84 jobs in the next four years.
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Hospitals' finances improve somewhat in 2010Restricted Content

March 26, 2011
J.K. Wall
It was a good but not great year financially for three of the four largest hospital systems operating in the Indianapolis area last year—and hospital analysts are expecting several head winds to continue.
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Franciscan's electronic records rollout shows industry growth

February 23, 2011
J.K. Wall
Franciscan Alliance will spend more than $100 million over the next two years to install a common electronic medical record system at its 13 hospitals and more than 165 physician practices. It’s a sign of the growth of the health information technology industry in Indiana, which a new BioCrossroads report says generates $200 million a year in sales and is growing at 8 percent annually.
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Reform, revenue behind Franciscan expansion

February 16, 2011
J.K. Wall
Changes unleashed by health reform are pushing Franciscan St. Francis Health’s expansion into Hamilton County—in addition to the obvious pull of the area’s well-heeled population.
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St. Francis plans $23 million Carmel hospital

February 14, 2011
 IBJ Staff
Franciscan St. Francis Health plans to open a short-stay medical center in Carmel, creating 76 jobs by 2015, the health system announced Monday morning.
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St. Francis covets Greenwood's growth

December 1, 2010
J.K. Wall
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers is going to build a new ER and medical office complex near Greenwood: The area has been growing over the past decade 10 times faster than the city of Indianapolis.
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