Advantage Health Solutions Inc. and Indiana University Health Plans discussed merging back in 2013 as a way to have doctors and hospitals that stretch nearly statewide, just like large insurers such as Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and UnitedHealthcare offer, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the conversations, which broke down. Now that […]
Mega-mergers among Anthem Inc. and its fellow health insurance giants could put pressure on provider-owned health plans such as Advantage Health Solutions and Indiana University Health Plans.
The hospital system and a partner company have started meeting with health insurance brokers to pitch a program to save employers money by keeping workers and their families healthier.
Wayne DeVeydt, chief financial officer of Anthem Inc., and Dan Evans, CEO of Indiana University Health, are two of the four health care executives that serve on the 118-member board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has come under fire for blocking anti-smoking policies in countries around the world. Bill Barnett has been named […]
Elizabeth Simpson, a dentist, has joined Eskenazi Health as its Grassy Creek location. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and her doctor of dental medicine degree from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston. Larry Meade has been promoted to director of business development for Franciscan Alliance. Meade previously […]
Indianapolis-based employer clinic operator OurHealth has named Heather Halliburton its vice president of human resources. Previously, Halliburton served as the assistant vice president of human resources at Stonegate Mortgage. She has also worked in human resources at OrthoIndy, Hologic, Emmis Communications and The Care Group. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University and a […]
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield has added St. Vincent Health to the “narrow network” of health care providers it uses for Obamacare plans. St. Vincent’s 22 hospitals and nearly 900 physicians on June 1 joined the network Anthem uses for individual health plans it sells on the online exchange created by the Affordable Care […]
A medical software company is notifying patients of the health care providers it serves—including Franciscan St. Francis Health in Indianapolis—that their private information may have been exposed when its networks were hacked.
It took $394,000 to rank in the top 1 percent of U.S. earners in 2013. And more than 100 of the Indiana contingent in that exclusive club were physicians employed by one of the four major hospital systems that operate in the Indianapolis area.
The individual hospital campuses around Indianapolis saw their collective revenue rise 8 percent and their collective operating profits rise 22 percent from from 2011 to 2013. That’s solid, just not stellar, growth.
In Indiana, Anthem has struck accountable care organization deals with 14 health care provider groups and signed up nearly 2,900 primary care providers to its medical home program. And it’s pushing for more in the future.
Franciscan Alliance has offered to take over Jasper County Hospital in exchange for accepting all of the hospital's liabilities and debt, according to the Rensselaer Republican. A proposed asset purchase agreement was discussed May 13 by a joint meeting of the hospital’s board of trustees, the Jasper County Commissioners and the Jasper County Council. The […]
OurHealth, which operates employer clinics, has named Katie Meister Vicars vice president of engagement. She was most recently a national accounts management executive for Anthem Inc. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Thomas More College.
Dr. Thomas Webb has been named co-medical director of vascular services at Franciscan St. Francis Health. Webb was director of vascular surgery for Catholic Health Initiatives at Bergan Mercy Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. Webb earned his medical degree from Medical College of Virginia.
Hospital system tripled its profit last year by wooing patients to its physicians, trimming hospital and clinical staff by more than 400. The rating agency Moody’s says things look even better in 2015.
Hendricks Regional Health will construct a 100,000-square-foot emergency room and outpatient center on the north side of Brownsburg by early 2017, in an attempt to capitalize on an underserved part of the state’s second-fastest-growing county. The Danville-based hospital system expects to spend $40 million on the facility, hoping it gives the small player a leg […]
Bob Brody, CEO of Franciscan St. Francis Health, will take a new job July 1 as chief operating officer for ambulatory services for the entire 13-hospital Franciscan Alliance. Brody will be replaced by Dr. James Callaghan, president of Franciscan St. Anthony Health facilities in Michigan City. Brody, who became Franciscan’s Indianapolis CEO in 1996, holds […]
