As health care slowly shifts to operate more like retail stores, patients’ opinions of doctors have become commonplace on more than 30 physician-rating Web sites, including a subscription service run by Indianapolis-based Angie’s List.
Tight budgets, unsure future make moving unattractive to office-space renters.
Modern-day bounty hunters are preparing to fan out across Indiana as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expands a program to ferret out fraud and overpayment in the health care system.
Dr. Dmitry Arbuck treats pain for a living. But he might have to start taking his own medicine. Arbuck has built a a practice that by all traditional standards is exemplary. But patient reports on multiple online rating services make Arbuck seem arrogant, incompetent and downright scary. “This Dr. . is a QUACK,” one patient a wrote […]
Benefits brokers and agents-facing increasing demands from employers and declining commissions-are merging at an accelerating pace. In less than two years, 10 Indiana firms have been swallowed up. The trend started slowly in 2007 but picked up speed late in 2008 and has continued into 2009. In March alone, Indianapolis brokers Benefit Associates Inc. and […]
CEO John Lechleiter is ruling out Eli Lilly and Co.’s participation in the drug industry’s recent round of mega-mergers, the Financial Times reported today. At the same time, the Indianapolis-based company isn’t stepping back from collaborations. It announced its most recent today: a heart-drug development deal with Mumbai, India-based Cadila Healthcare Ltd. Lechleiter specifically ruled […]
CEO John Lechleiter is ruling out Eli Lilly and Co.’s participation in the drug industry’s recent round of mega-mergers, the Financial Times reported today. At the same time, the Indianapolis-based company isn’t stepping back from collaborations. It announced its most recent today: a heart-drug development deal with Mumbai, India-based Cadila Healthcare Ltd. Lechleiter specifically ruled […]
0330dvs_auto_bailout 0329dv_gm_ceo_resigns President Barack Obama refused further long-term federal bailouts for General Motors and Chrysler, saying more concessions were needed from unions, creditors and others before they could be approved. He raised the possibility Monday of controlled bankruptcy for one or both of the beleaguered auto giants. At the same time, eager to reassure consumers, […]
My wife, Becky, is alive today because of Lilly and its trial drug Enzastaurin, a great surgeon, and a terrific team of local doctors.
Benefits brokers and agents—facing increasing demands from employers and declining commissions—are merging at an
accelerating
pace.
A new group funded by pharmaceutical and medical products companies – and co-chaired by former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson and Indiana Pacers President Jim Morris – will publicly launch itself today with a press event at the Indiana Statehouse. Hoosiers Work for Health is a not-for-profit that wants to hold educational forums about health care […]
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. was sued for alleged price-fixing today by the American Medical Society and other doctors groups. The AMA said in a statement that it filed its lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles. However, documents for the suit were not yet posted on the court system’s Web service. The lawsuit alleges that WellPoint […]
Legislation that would stiffen Indiana’s animal-cruelty laws and more closely regulate dog-breeding operations commonly known as puppy mills could produce millions of dollars in new tax revenue from unregistered breeders, according to the author of the bill. House Bill 1468, which has broad support from animal-rights groups, could generate tax income from breeders that work […]
The wages paid by a company to its employees are a distinctly private matter.
Carmel-based software firm Information Systems Experts LLC plans to expand its operations and create up to 10 new positions, the firm announced this morning. The company said it would invest more than $287,000 to upgrade equipment at its 8,000-square-foot headquarters in Carmel. ISE received a $21,000 grant from the state’s Skills Enhancement Fund to train […]
Carmel-based software firm Information Systems Experts LLC plans to expand its operations and create up to 10 new positions, the firm announced this morning. The company said it would invest more than $287,000 to upgrade equipment at its 8,000-square-foot headquarters in Carmel. ISE received a $21,000 grant from the state’s Skills Enhancement Fund to train […]
Three entrepreneurs from the medical and software realms are herding angels to invest in upstart life sciences companies in
Indiana.
Without fresh capital â?? or loosened debt obligations â?? Carmel-based Conseco could find itself in bankruptcy or looking
for a buyer or both.
This week I’m going to be
your own, personal Pollyanna and try to cheer you up with some good news.
Now that Medicare is calling for all doctors it deals with to use electronic medical records by 2015, the trend of physicians’
merging with hospitals or larger groups could hasten.
