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Shared patient rooms in hospitals soon to be history: Guidelines call for private quarters in all new facilities

April 10, 2006

New guidelines due out in June will call for newly constructed hospitals to come equipped with all private patient rooms, the first time such a minimum requirement has been issued. The guidelines, published every four years by the Facilities Guidelines Institute and the American Institute of Architects’ Academy of Health, are used by nearly 40 state governments-including Indiana-to set regulations, approve construction plans and license hospitals to operate. And hospitals nationwide-including those in Indiana-are expected to embrace the guidelines that…

BRIAN WILLIAMS Commentary: Legislators should address insurance costs

April 10, 2006

Members of the Indiana General Assembly resolved some contentious issues in 2006, including property tax relief, telecommunications reform and the long-term leasing of public infrastructure. U n f o r t u n a t e l y, they did not have an opportunity to debate Senate Bill 124, which, if measured on the basis of the value per page, would have exceeded the much-heralded “Major Moves” transportation initiative. Introduced by Sen. Beverly Gard, a Greenfield Republican who has been…

HMOs report steady profits, falling membership: Indiana insurers performed well overall in 2005

March 27, 2006

Most of Indiana’s largest HMOs managed to turn profits in 2005, even as other kinds of health insurance gained market share, sucking away 6 percent to 15 percent of their customers. Technology improvements and more efficient operations helped counter those losses, health maintenance organization executives said. However, annual reports filed with the state Department of Insurance show that profit for some of these managed care options slipped compared to 2004. Industry insiders say many companies are reluctant to offer HMOs…

States demand One Call answers: Carmel telephone firm ‘out of control’

March 27, 2006

A Carmel long-distance and operator service company has a lot to answer for these days. After crossing wires with Indiana regulators and with the Federal Communications Commission last year, One Call Communications now is being accused by Iowa and Missouri regulators of putting bogus charges on phone bills and then harassing people to pay. Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon this month filed a lawsuit alleging the privately held company violated state and federal consumer protection laws. Nixon said the company…

VIEWPOINT: Business is a dog-eat-dog world

March 20, 2006

Has our approach to competition helped us create more successful companies? I have found it interesting to study competition and the related business paradigm within which we operate, to see what brought us here, and to see the effects of that paradigm on industries and companies. Like most of us, I learned about competition as a child. It was a natural progression to go from playing with friends and just having fun to playing to win at something. Almost without…

Short session long on action: Led by Major Moves, telecom successes, biz interests fared well in 2006 General Assembly

March 20, 2006

In less than three months, the Indiana General Assembly approved a pair of blockbuster economic-development measures designed to dramatically upgrade the state’s infrastructure. With the passage of Gov. Mitch Daniels’ Major Moves initiative, Indiana will lease the Indiana Toll Road to an Australian-Spanish consortium for 75 years. It will use the upfront, $3.9 billion payment to build roads. Meanwhile, the approval of telecom deregulation sets the stage for more local phone, cable and Internet competition. Daniels, a Republican, argued that…

Making the grade: Pay-for-performance system nearing reality for local physicians

March 6, 2006

Central Indiana stands on the leading edge of a national push by health care insurance systems to link doctors’ pay with their performance. The Indiana Health Information Exchange-a not-for-profit collaboration among some of the state’s largest health care providers-is developing a program that uses data collected from insurers and care providers to produce quality reports. Those reports then will be sent to doctors and used by the insurers to develop incentive programs for reimbursement. The goal: Start a system by…

Industry veteran at helm as ATA exits bankruptcy: After months of tumult, Karnik ready for ‘boring’ year

February 20, 2006

Subodh Karnik slowly backed up to his chair at ATA Airlines Inc. and slumped into it. His 46-year-old back was killing him. One of his elementary-age sons back home in Atlanta used him like a trampoline over the weekend. The injury got worse when Karnick ran through the airport, like O.J. Simpson in an old Hertz commercial, to catch a flight back to Indianapolis. “I was born a masochist,” said Karnik, a 6-foot-4-inch native of Mumbai, India, who sports a…

BRIAN WILLIAMS Commentary: Health care is hurting Indiana’s economy

February 13, 2006

Nearly 875,000 Hoosiers lack health insurance, including 165,350 children. Lack of health insurance takes a devastating toll on Hoosiers and the state’s economic health, and the effect of the uninsured will only get worse as their numbers grow. As companies confront rising health care costs, the obvious solution is dropping or scaling back health-insurance benefits. As a result, the number of uninsured increases, resulting in a premium cost shift to the insured and increased cost for government-provided health care. Over…

Landing ad revenue: Airport charged up over sponsorship of electrical outlets

January 30, 2006

Advertisements for mutual funds, watches and kolaches. Now as you wait at the gate for your flight, you’ll even see ads on electrical outlets. The Indianapolis Airport Authority on Jan. 20 was expected to approve a $65,000 marketing partnership with Chase in what is the latest and certainly the most electrifying of all advertising schemes at Indianapolis International Airport. These are desperate times for marketers. Too many ads are getting lost in the shuffle. And barraged consumers have figured out…

Landing ad revenue: Airport charged up over sponsorship of electrical outlets

January 23, 2006

Carrier looks deeper at rent-a-plane roots to grow revenue: ATA aims to reverse declines in commercial charter

January 9, 2006

ATA Holdings Corp. is again plotting a course toward commercial charter, a segment of the airline industry hurt over the last decade by falling scheduled service fares that have erased charters’ price advantage. But rather than aiming at the leisure end of commercial charter-so battered by fare wars-the Indianapolis carrier will try to tap more lucrative segments such as “incentive” charters. Among the clients: big corporations that send hundreds or thousands of their top salespeople each year to conferences in…

‘Crammers’ facing big fines: Two firms accused of billing phone customers for directory assistance services not ordered

January 9, 2006

As in $1,071,000. That’s how much the Office of Utility Consumer Counselor wants the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to ring up in fines against Casper, Wyo.-based Micronet Inc. It also requests that the commission turn over the case to Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter for prosecution under the state’s deceptive practices act. Micronet is accused of billing hundreds of Indiana business, residential and state government lines in late 2004 and early 2005 for directory assistance service callers never requested or…

New ATA shares harder to land: Public offering not expected as airline exits bankruptcy

January 2, 2006

You probably wouldn’t want to buy shares of the first discount airline in recent years to file bankruptcy reorganization-not unless you’re a short-seller or a relative of Norman Vincent Peale. Not in this airline climate. But even they won’t have a chance to buy shares being issued in ATA Holdings Corp. after the Indianapolis airline emerges from Chapter 11 as early as next month. ATA was delisted from Nasdaq shortly after it filed for bankruptcy in October 2004. Old shares…

ATA struggles to survive:

December 26, 2005

ATA Airlines in 2005 was gutted into a shell of its former glory. On the upside, it ended the year with a $100 commitment from New York finance firm MatlinPatterson Global Opportunities Partners. That could set the stage for the company to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February, 16 months after it filed. But the price of restructuring was high for Indianapolis. The company, which just a year ago was the busiest carrier at Indianapolis International Airport, will discontinue…

Republic Airways buffeted by U.S. Airways pilot turbulence: Locally based carrier gets favorable ruling in one dispute, but remains mired in separate $1.2B lawsuit

December 12, 2005

Republic Airways Holdings Inc. has landed a break from an arbitrator who ruled the Indianapolis regional airline is obligated to hire no more than half the 300 pilots employed by US Airways’ MidAtlantic regional airline, which Republic is acquiring. Regional carrier Republic can avoid higher personnel costs by not having to hire as many U.S. Airways pilots with seniority. The amount of the savings was not immediately available. But Republic remains a defendant in a complicated, $1.2 billion lawsuit that…

BEHIND THE NEWS: ATA’s new flight plan: Rely on military for bulk of revenue

December 5, 2005

ATA Holdings Corp. has been so busy in recent months slashing scheduled service and reducing costs in other ways that its comparatively problem-free militarycharter business has received almost no public attention. But new filings in bankruptcy court show that business is expected to generate nearly 52 percent of ATA’s revenue in 2006, providing stability and a steady profit as the airline tries to regain its footing in scheduled service. The company, which sought Chapter 11 protection in October 2004, hopes…

Southwest won’t land big ATA stake, after all: But low-fare airlines plan to broaden partnership allowing passengers on 1 carrier to transfer to other

November 28, 2005

ATA Holdings Corp.’s new business plan includes “an extended and more robust” code-share agreement with Southwest Airlines. But Dallas-based Southwest doesn’t intend to take an ownership stake in the bankrupt Indianapolis carrier, backing off its year-old plan to acquire 27.5 percent of the company when it exits bankruptcy. Those details are contained in recently filed court documents that provide a partial picture of ATA’s reorganization plan. The airline sought Chapter 11 protection in October 2004. The investment group proposing to…

Grant Communications Inc.: Cellular merger brings growth to local retailer Business expansion beats owner’s initial expectations

November 14, 2005

Cellular phones may be ubiquitous today, but they weren’t in 1987 when Elkhart-born Adam Grant spotted an Atlanta neighbor talking into a two-way radio that doubled as a phone. The communications device was introduced by Nextel, which rolled out a mobile phone that same year. Intrigued by the innovation, Grant began a journey taking him from Atlanta to Houston and back to his home state. He opened his first central Indiana mobile-phone store in April 1998, and now Grant Communications…

One Call rings up regulatory ire: Carmel telecommmunications firm faces fines, legal action-and increased scrutiny from FCC

October 31, 2005

The Federal Communications Commission is threatening to revoke the operating authority of Carmel telecommunications firm One Call Communications for allegedly failing to remit millions of dollars in federal fees. In its second action against the firm since 2002, the agency also proposes a $1.1 million fine against One Call and parent OCMC Inc. The FCC complaint quietly launched in August comes after allegations made last spring by state regulators. The state allegations involved so-called “modem hijacking” of dial-up computer users,…

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Shared patient rooms in hospitals soon to be history: Guidelines call for private quarters in all new facilities

BRIAN WILLIAMS Commentary: Legislators should address insurance costs

HMOs report steady profits, falling membership: Indiana insurers performed well overall in 2005

States demand One Call answers: Carmel telephone firm ‘out of control’

VIEWPOINT: Business is a dog-eat-dog world

Short session long on action: Led by Major Moves, telecom successes, biz interests fared well in 2006 General Assembly

Making the grade: Pay-for-performance system nearing reality for local physicians

Industry veteran at helm as ATA exits bankruptcy: After months of tumult, Karnik ready for ‘boring’ year

BRIAN WILLIAMS Commentary: Health care is hurting Indiana’s economy

Landing ad revenue: Airport charged up over sponsorship of electrical outlets

Landing ad revenue: Airport charged up over sponsorship of electrical outlets

Carrier looks deeper at rent-a-plane roots to grow revenue: ATA aims to reverse declines in commercial charter

‘Crammers’ facing big fines: Two firms accused of billing phone customers for directory assistance services not ordered

New ATA shares harder to land: Public offering not expected as airline exits bankruptcy

ATA struggles to survive:

Republic Airways buffeted by U.S. Airways pilot turbulence: Locally based carrier gets favorable ruling in one dispute, but remains mired in separate $1.2B lawsuit

BEHIND THE NEWS: ATA’s new flight plan: Rely on military for bulk of revenue

Southwest won’t land big ATA stake, after all: But low-fare airlines plan to broaden partnership allowing passengers on 1 carrier to transfer to other

Grant Communications Inc.: Cellular merger brings growth to local retailer Business expansion beats owner’s initial expectations

One Call rings up regulatory ire: Carmel telecommmunications firm faces fines, legal action-and increased scrutiny from FCC