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Rating doctors via online services helps consumers make better health care decisions.
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Doc sues Web-savvy ex-patient
Dr. Barry Eppley, an Indianapolis surgeon, says an online crusade by a disgruntled former patient is taking a toll on his
practice, and he’s suing her.EDITORIAL: Doctors should adapt to ratings-WEB ONLY
Practicing medicine has never been easy, but the profession is becoming particularly trying. Insurance companies are pounding down costs to the point that good factory managers make more money than some family doctors. Insurers also second-guess diagnoses and treatments, forcing some physicians to prescribe remedies they feel are inadequate. As if doctors needed another Excedrin […]
Doc sues Web-savvy ex-patient-WEB ONLY
A former patient of local plastic surgeon Dr. Barry Eppley says he has made her life hell the past eight years. Eppley, in a recent lawsuit, says much the same about her. The patient, Lucille Iacovelli, has posted a steady stream of videos and caustic comments on Web sites about a face-lift surgery Eppley performed […]
Designer drugs-WEB ONLY
Prescribe the wrong dose and some drugs won’t work. Or the patient is as good as dead. Consider the rat-poison-turned-blood-thinner warfarin, also known as Coumadin. Too much and a patient can bleed to death, too little and he can throw a clot and have a stroke. Given the considerable consequences of improper dosing for patients-and […]
Connersville feeling brunt of auto slump-WEB ONLY
Taking a sledge hammer to a car might seem like an illogical way to protest a tax hike on tobacco. But it sure feels good, especially to people who are stuck inside the economic pressure cooker that is Connersville. So on April 1, the day a 158-percent increase in the federal cigarette tax took effect, […]
Clarian ads win major award-WEB ONLY
Cue the theme from “Rocky.” Indianapolis ad firm The Heavyweights and its client Clarian Health have won one of the ad industry’s biggest awards for Clarian’s “A Call to Change” campaign. In June, The Heavyweights will receive a North American Effie Award from a trade organization called Effie Awards. The Effie Awards’ Web site calls […]
Medicare Advantage rates rise less than 1 percent-WEB ONLY
The federal government said last night it will bump up a rate used to figure Medicare Advantage reimbursement to insurers by nearly 1 percent, but many analysts expect overall payment rates to fall next year. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said the national average growth percentage per capita for Medicare Advantage plans would […]
Doctors squirm as patients rate health care
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.
New Community CEO weighs in on system’s future, universal care
IBJ reporter J.K. Wall asked Bryan A. Mills about his new job as Community Health Networks next CEO.
Clarian ads win major award
Indianapolis ad firm The Heavyweights and its local client Clarian Health have won one of the ad industry’s biggest awards
for one component of Clarian’s “A Call to Change” campaign.This might hurt…-WEB ONLY
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 […]
Mills: ‘It’s going to grow’-WEB ONLY
Bryan A. Mills, 48, was named Community Health Network’s next CEO March 31. He will become president of Indianapolis’ thirdlargest hospital system May 1 and replace Bill Corley as CEO sometime later this year. Mills said his first order of business is getting to know the team at Community, which includes 11,000 employees at five […]
Clarian ads win major award-WEB ONLY
Cue the theme from “Rocky.” Indianapolis ad firm The Heavyweights and its client Clarian Health have won one of the ad industry’s biggest awards for Clarian’s “A Call to Change” campaign. In June, The Heavyweights will receive a North American Effie Award from a trade organization called Effie Awards. The Effie Awards’ Web site calls […]
Mills confirmed as Community CEO-WEB ONLY
It’s official: Community Health Network has selected Bryan Mills as its next CEO. James Morey, chairman of the board of the hospital chain, sent a memo to Community staff today announcing Mills’ selection. IBJ first reported on Friday that Mills was the choice to replace Bill Corley, who has led Community for the past 25 […]
Mills confirmed as Community Health CEO-WEB ONLY
It’s official today. Community Health Network has selected Bryan Mills as its next CEO. James Morey, chairman of the board of the hospital chain, sent a memo to Community staff today, announcing Mills’ selection. IBJ first reported on Friday that Mills was the choice to replace Bill Corley, who has led Community for the past […]
Bonus outrage poor excuse for good public policy
The wages paid by a company to its employees are a distinctly private matter.
WellPoint wants to be heard in health care debate-WEB ONLY
Some of the country’s largest insurers are starting to raise their voices in the debate over reworking the nation’s health care system, and their message is clear: They must play a role for it to work. WellPoint Inc. CEO Angela Braly on Tuesday told a Los Angeles forum the government and private industry need each […]
Medical, tech entrepreneurs launch matchmaking effort in life sciences
Three entrepreneurs from the medical and software realms are herding angels to invest in upstart life sciences companies in
Indiana.HEALTH CARE
HEALTH CARE Stimulus bill could prompt physician 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. But the requirement could also speed up the retirement of aging physicians at a time when they are […]