New estimate drops health plan’s cost to Indiana
A new estimate has lowered the expected cost of the federal health care overhaul to Indiana’s state government to perhaps $2.6 billion over the next decade.
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Clarian Health Plans will add rival Community Health Network to its list of providers approved for Clarian’s Medicare Advantage customers. Beginning Jan. 1, Clarian’s health plan customers are approved to see one of Community’s 700 physicians or receive care at one of its five Indianapolis-area hospitals. Clarian Health Plans, started in 2008 as a subsidiary of the Clarian Health hospital system, administers a Medicare Advantage plan in 32 Indiana counties.
Biomet Inc. narrowed its loss in the three months ended Aug. 31 as sales rose everywhere but in Europe. The Warsaw-based maker of orthopedic implants lost $18 million in its fiscal first quarter, down from a loss of $23 million in the same quarter a year ago. Excluding special accounting charges, the company would have turned a quarterly profit of $51 million, a 3-percent increase over the same quarter last year, when special charges also were excluded. Biomet’s total sales for the quarter rose 2 percent to $641 million, with a 5-percent advance in the United State and an 11-percent rise in international markets outside Europe. Sales in Europe fell 11 percent.
Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman and the Indiana Rural Health Association launched the Indiana Telehealth Network last week, a $7 million project that will connect 22 rural Indiana hospitals with fiber-optic broadband communication lines. The network is designed to grow the use of telemedicine, where patients in remote areas could have online consultations with specialty physicians in more populous areas. The Federal Communications Commission will fund 85 percent of the project, with local funds providing the balance. The hospitals in the network are in such towns as Monticello, Tipton, Boonville and Greencastle. Indianapolis-based Clarian Health and Community Health Network will also be connected to the rural hospitals.
INphoton Inc. and two researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have received a $1 million Small Business Technology Transfer grant to commercialize its imaging services for pharmaceutical and life sciences companies. INphoton uses powerful light miscroscopes to analyze and produce 3-D images of activities in living cells within the human body. INphoton is led by former Eli Lilly and Co. executive Steve Plump.
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Amy Zucker is president of Indianapolis-based Synergy Marketing Group. Her firm was recently hired by Indianapolis-based ImmuneWorks Inc. to use a new website and search engine optimization to help recruit patients for a Phase 1 trial of ImmuneWorks experimental medicine idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The Web strategy is a new wrinkle on patient recruitment—in addition to the traditional partnerships with disease specialists at academic medical centers—that Zucker hopes leads to lower costs and faster clinical trials. Phase 1 clinical trials cost nearly $16,000 per patient.
Some Lilly-paid docs sport spotty records
Eli Lilly and Co. paid more than $102 million last year and early this year to physicians for talking up Lilly drugs to other doctors. Yet 88 of the doctors Lilly pays have been sanctioned by state medical boards.
‘Payer mix’ playing role in hospital merger
Morgan Hospital & Medical Center is on the brink of merging with Clarian Health for a variety of reasons, but one of the biggest is one that all hospitals are facing in one way or another: a declining payer mix.
IU shrink explores mental health blood tests
Dr. Alexander B. Niculescu, a psychiatrist at the IU School of Medicine, has won a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to hunt for the presence of certain proteins in the blood that would indicate that a patient suffers from a mood disorder, which afflicts one in five Americans.
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Dr. Maryellen E. Gusic is the new executive associate dean for educational affairs at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In that role, she will be responsible for the creation, coordination and implementation of all major education programs at Indiana's only medical school. Gusic most recently served as associate dean for clinical education at Penn State College of Medicine.
Dr. Luis Romero has joined the St. Vincent Physician Network in Zionsville as a family physician. He earned his medical degree in Colombia and was later chief resident at the Indiana University-Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency in Indianapolis.
The Indiana Health Care Association has hired Zach Cattell as general counsel and director of business and member services. Cattell comes to the nursing home trade group from the Baker & Daniels law firm. Before that, he was a lobbyist for the Indiana State Medical Association, the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians and the Indiana State Department of Health.
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. appointed Lori Beer, its chief information officer, as executive vice president of a newly formed business unit called enterprise business services.
Indiana University appointed Dr. Craig Brater, dean of the IU School of Medicine, to the additional position of vice president of university clinical affairs. The extra role will have Brater chair a committee of the deans of IU’s schools for medicine, dentistry, optometry and health sciences, as well as coordinate any clinical interactions IU has with its hospital partners: Clarian Health, Wishard Health Services and the Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Excellence in Health Care: Past Recipients
Previous winners are not eligible for nomination, but previous finalists may be nominated. 2025 Excellence in Health Care Career Achievement Award Dr. William Goggins Community Achievement iHEART Collaborative The Restoracy Transplant Optimization Program Physician Dr. Nasser Hanna Pharmacist Dawn Moore Innovations in Healthcare Community Heart and Vascular Hospital Electrophysiology Program Intersurgical Inc. Mental Health Advocacy […]
IUPUI announces $1.25 billion fundraising goal
Fundraising will be done locally, with representatives from individual programs contacting potential donors, the university said Saturday.
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Dr. John Cummings has been named medical director of neurosurgery for Community Health Network. Cummings, a neurosurgeon at Community for more than 20 years, did his training at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
The IU Medical Group added two internists. Dr. Rebecca Lindberg earned her medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and completed her residency at the IU School of Medicine. Dr. Laura Nelson did her medical training and residency at the IU medical school.
Forethought Financial Group Inc. named Ronald Ziegler chief actuary. He will oversee product development, financial reporting, and risk management at the Indianapolis-based life insurance company. Prior to joining Forethought, Ziegler spent 22 years at Transamerica/AEGON Insurance Group.
Dr. Jeffrey Kellams was installed as the 137th president of the Indianapolis Medical Society on Tuesday. He is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the IU School of Medicine, chief of psychiatric services at Wishard Health Services and medical director of the Midtown Mental Health Center in Indianapolis.
Dr. Tracy Price has joined Central Indiana Cancer Centers, providing radiation oncology services at its Fishers, Greenfield and Greenwood locations. Price did her medical training at the IU School of Medicine.
Dr. Eriko Onishi has joined St. Vincent Hospice to lead its effort to set up electronic medical records for physicians. Dr. Onishi, a native of Japan, is an internist specializing in terminal cancer. She previously served as a hospice medical director in Columbus, Ind.
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For the fourth consecutive year, Clarian Health’s Methodist Hospital made the list of the top-five hospitals that are part of U.S. academic medical centers. The University HealthSystem Consortium based its rankings on its annual Quality and Accountability Study, which includes 98 academic medical centers around the country. The study examines hospitals on such issues as safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, equity and patient-centeredness. The other four hospitals honored this year were the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.; the University of Utah Hospitals in Salt Lake City; the University Medical Center in Tuscon, Ariz.; and the Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pa. Clarian Health is a joint venture of Methodist Hospital and the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Community Health Network will add three slots to its family medicine residency program and restructure the program’s curriculum around the medical home concept. The Indianapolis-based hospital system has received $2.4 million from three federal grants to fund the changes. Community will use $1.3 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop the medical home concept, which attempts to let one family physician coordinate all the primary care needs of one patient, rather than having patients on their own go to numerous doctors for primary care. A second $960,000 grant will allow Community to expand yearly family residents from 21 to 24. The three extra slots will all be filled by doctors trained in osteopathic medicine. And a third grant of $213,000 will help Community buy needed equipment to support its program expansion. Community is the second local institution in a month to expand its family residency program. In late September, the Indiana University School of Medicine said it would use $1.9 million in stimulus funds to add two slots to its program in the Lafayette area.
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Wyoming have genetically engineered silkworms to produce artificial spider silk in quantities large enough to be commercially viable. The researchers are working with Michigan-based Kraig Biocraft Laboratories to commercialize the technology for medical, industrial and consumer applications. Spider silk has significantly higher tensile strength and elasticity than natural silkworm fibers. Notre Dame researchers claim the silk produced by their genetically engineered silkworms have qualities much closer to spider silk. In the medical arena, researchers hope artifical spider silk could be used to make suture materials, wound-healing bandages, or natural scaffolds for tendon and ligament repair or replacement. They think the artifical spider silk also could be used to make bulletproof vests, strong and lightweight fabrics for athletic clothing and improved automobile airbags.
Reform will boost health care costs, Indianapolis panel predicts
Rising costs aren't the only impact of reform, say panelists taking part in a Power Breakfast sponsored by Indianapolis Business Journal.Health reform forces providers, insurers to lay aside rivalries
In this new age of health care, ushered in by President Obama’s signing in March of a sweeping health care reform law, health care players are encouraged to remove the gloves if they want to reap the benefits of reform.
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Clarian Health named Dr. Philip Dulberger CEO and chief medical officer of its Clarian Saxony Medical Center, which is under construction in Fishers. Dulberger, an anesthesiologist, was hired by Clarian in 2006 to lead the development of the new hospital.
BioCrossroads has elected Darren Carroll, vice president of new ventures at Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co., to the organization’s board of directors. Carroll oversees Lilly’s venture capital investments in the U.S. and Asia. He has previously chaired investment advisory committees for investment funds operated by BioCrossroads, an Indianapolis-based life sciences development group.
Eli Lilly and Co. named Jeffrey Winton its vice president of communications. Beginning Oct. 11, he will report to Bart Peterson, Lilly’s senior vice president of corporate affairs and communications. Winton has worked in communications roles for a variety of pharmaceutical firms, including Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Schering-Plough, Pharmacia, Hoffmann-La Roche and American Cyanamid.
Jessica Jochim, a physician assistant, has joined St. Francis Medical Group Vascular Surgeons. She did her medical training at Butler University.
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Indianapolis-based Adult and Child Center won $2 million from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to improve access to primary care for Americans with serious mental illnesses. Such patients die, on average, 25 years earlier than those without such conditions, according to a 2006 report by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. During the four-year project, Adult and Child will have a primary-care physician and nurse care coordinator available to patients at its mental health center. The medical staff will try to address patients with mental illnesses who also suffer from chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity.
A $1.9 million federal stimulus grant will enable the Indiana University School of Medicine's department of family medicine to add two residents a year in the Lafayette area. IU’s family medicine residency program currently accepts 10 doctors annually for post-med-school training as family physicians. The grant will enable the program to add two residency slots in collaboration with Clarian Arnett Health, St. Elizabeth Regional Health and Riggs Community Health Center in Lafayette. IU med school officials hope graduates of the residency program will set up medical practices in and around Lafayette, which like much of Indiana has a shortage of primary-care physicians. The expansion of the residency program will be effective in July 2011.
Lilly Endowment Inc. gave $4 million to Indiana University to help address ethical, legal and social issues involved in the growing sharing and study of health information. IU will create the Center for Law, Ethics and Applied Research in Health Information (CLEAR Health Information). The center also will partner with government, industry and not-for-profit groups in an effort to increase reliability and trust in the use of health information.
Columbus Regional Hospital is suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to recover $17.1 million in federal funds the hospital claims it is owed due to damages caused by a massive flood. The June 2008 flood, designated a federal disaster, caused $167 million in damages and business-income losses to the hospital, which did not fully reopen until nearly five months later. The suit, filed Sept. 15 in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, accuses FEMA of violating federal regulations, negligence and misrepresentation for failing to pay the full amount the hospital says it is owed. The flooding from nearby Haw Creek filled the hospital’s basement to the 12-foot ceiling and partially submerged the first floor. Key medical equipment destroyed by the flood included radiology scanners, radiography and fluoroscopy systems, ultrasounds, cardiac-catherization labs, biopsy tables and biochemical analyzers.
Corrections
-St. Francis Medical Group LLC, for Southeast Family Physicians, leased 8,245 square feet in Emerson Office Parke Building 2, 965 Emerson Parkway, Greenwood. The tenant was represented by Travis Tucker of Duke Realty. The landlord, Emerson Office Parke Building Two LLC, was represented by Greg W. Allen and John Cunningham of Allen Commercial Group. The name of the tenant was incorrect in last week’s Real Estate Weekly.
-Jordan-Fishers LLC bought the 40,000-square-foot Village Square retail center at 11033-11361 Allisonville Road, Fishers. The price wasn’t disclosed. The buyer was represented by Keith Dedrick of Corporate Commercial Group. The seller, Huntington Bank, was represented by Bob Barker of Z&B Realty Services. Kevin Broadrick of Marcus & Millichap worked with both buyer and seller. The name of the seller’s broker was incorrect in last week’s Real Estate Weekly.
Leases/leasing contracts
-Jones Lang LaSalle has been named leasing agent for Lake Pointe Center 5, a 150,000-square-foot office building in Allison Pointe office park. Adam Broderick of Jones Lang LaSalle has been named leasing agent for the two-year-old building, which has 90,000 square feet available. The building is owned by Edgeworth Laskey Properties LLC.
-Premium Supply Inc. leased 45,100 square feet in the North by Northeast Business Park, 9901 Kincaid Drive, Fishers. The tenant was represented by Fritz Kauffman of Cassidy Turley. The landlord, Prologis, was represented by Chip Barnes and Matt Dickerson of NAI Olympia Partners.
-University Pediatric Associates Inc. leased 27,245 square feet at 11590 N. Meridian St., Carmel. The tenant was represented by Zane Brown of CB Richard Ellis. The landlord, Fidelity Office Building II LP, was represented by Mike Napariu of REI Investments.
-Southside Family Physicians leased 8,245 square feet in Emerson Office Parke Building 2, 965 Emerson Parkway, Greenwood. The tenant was represented by Travis Tucker of Duke Realty. The landlord, Emerson Office Parke Building Two LLC, was represented by Greg W. Allen and John Cunningham of Allen Commercial Group.
-County Line Pediatrics leased 8,000 square feet in Greenbrooke Medical Pavilion Building 2, 747 E. County Line Road, Greenwood. The tenant was represented by Travis Tucker of Duke Realty. The landlord, GWA Wheatcraft LLC, was represented by Greg W. Allen and John Cunningham of Allen Commercial Group.
-Stewart-Richardson & Associates leased 5,414 square feet in the Regions Bank Tower, One Indiana Square. The landlord, One Indiana Square Associates, was represented by Ralph Balber and Kelli Dugan of Halakar Real Estate. The tenant represented itself.
-Re/Max Select leased 3,000 square feet in Library Parke, 489 S. State Road 135, Greenwood. The tenant was represented by Keith Turnbill of Re/Max Select. The landlord, Greg Allen Property Management, was represented by Greg W. Allen and John Cunningham of Allen Commercial Group.
-Miebach Consulting Inc. leased 2,982 square feet in Market Square Center, 151 N. Delaware St. The tenant was represented by Matthew Tobe of Halakar Real Estate. The landlord, Hertz Indianapolis One LLC, was represented by Crystal Houston and Dan Richardson of CB Richard Ellis.
-Crown Liquors leased 2,760 square feet at Westside Center, 645 W 11th St. The tenant was represented by Mark Perlstein of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate. The landlord, Westside Development Corp., was represented by John Schick of The Broadbent Co.
-Qdoba leased 2,275 square feet at Greenfield Corner Shops, 2037 N. State St., Greenfield. The tenant was represented by Larry Davis of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate. The landlord, MAP Greenfield LLC, was represented by Jeff Hubley of Midland Atlantic.
-Jimmy Johns leased 1,625 square feet at Speedway Shoppes, 5949 Crawfordsville Road. The tenant was represented by Drew Warner of Eclipse Real Estate. The landlord, Westside Development Corp., was represented by Mark Perlstein of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate.
-LBL's Salon leased 1,600 square feet at Plainfield Commons II, 2683 E. Main St., Plainfield. The tenant was represented by Dawn Lyon of Site Link Commercial Realty. The landlord, Plainfield Commons II LLC, was represented by Liz Yoho of Providence Development.
-Chun Lin leased 1,300 square feet of retail space at 9546 Allisonville Road. The landlord, LOR Corp., was represented by Jacque Haynes of Cassidy Turley. The tenant represented itself.