Docs, health insurers battle at Statehouse
Physicians and insurance companies have entered their fourth year of haggling over insurance payments, and each side is claiming
to best represent patients.
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FDA probes Lilly blood-poisoning treatment-WEB ONLY
Federal health regulators are looking into evidence that an Eli Lilly and Co. drug used to treat blood poisoning worsens the risk of bleeding and can lead to death in certain patients. The Food and Drug Administration said today a recently published study showed that the Indianapolis-based company’s drug Xigris increased the risk of dangerous […]
Health care interests wary of state’s cost-cutting idea for Medicaid
Indiana Medicaid officials want to take over management of all its patients’ prescription drugs because they say it could save the state as much as $40 million a year.
Workplace smoking policies move backward
The bill in question seems like a long shot. It would abdicate government’s responsibility for protecting citizens’ health
and safety, and place it in the hands of individual business owners.Lilly, Pfizer spend millions on murky illness-WEB ONLY
Two drug companies, Pfizer Inc. and Eli Lilly and Co., spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments and drowning out unresolved questions – including whether it’s a real disease at all. Key components of the industry-funded buzz over […]
Lilly accused of price-fixing in Switzerland-WEB ONLY
Three of the world’s largest drugmakers, including Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co., are being accused of fixing prices for erectile dysfunction drugs in Switzerland, according to Bloomberg News. Lilly, Pfizer Inc. and Bayer AG, rivals in the male impotence-drug market, fixed prices in Switzerland and should be punished, a panel of the Swiss Competition Commission, […]
Are we victims of ‘group think’?
“Group think,” a powerful and controlling force, was present as the Capital Improvement Board built Lucas Oil Stadium and Eli Lilly and Co. developed and marketed Zyprexa.
Community touts integrated computer system-WEB ONLY
Call it Expedia for hospital systems. Community Health Network has spent three years developing a computer interface that allows doctors and nurses to view all information and records on a patient in one viewing program. Community calls it a virtual single patient record, or vSPR. It works in the same way Expedia pulls together the […]
WellPoint paying to settle reimbursement probe-WEB ONLY
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a New York probe into how the health insurer reimbursed customers for out-of-network services. WellPoint also agreed to stop using the Ingenix database of reimbursement rates that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has called “defective and manipulated.” “WellPoint acknowledges the conflicts of interest […]
WellPoint pays to settle reimbursement probe-WEB ONLY
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a New York probe into how the health insurer reimbursed customers for out-of-network services. WellPoint also agreed to stop using the Ingenix database of reimbursement rates that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has called “defective and manipulated.” “WellPoint acknowledges the conflicts of interest in […]
Conventions going high-tech-WEB ONLY
Welcome to the convention of the future. Salespeople you’ve never met will approach you with an uncanny, maybe even unnerving, familiarity and strike up conversations eerily close to your thoughts. Signs and data centers will flash messages tailored to your interests, guiding you to displays, meetings, and products ro and services. You won’t need cash […]
Celebrate contemporary heroes, too
When it comes time to celebrate African-American History month, wouldn’t we be better served with profiles of young, living role models we can talk to—heroes who can talk to us? Let me submit for your consideration Mercy Obeime.
Conventions going high-tech with RFID
Radio frequency identification—better known as RFID—is making its way to trade shows and conventions, providing a plethora of information about attendees.
Community Health touts integrated computer system
Community Health Network has spent three years developing a computer interface that allows doctors and nurses to view all
information and records on a patient in one viewing program.Medicaid chief leaves, but savings plan in limbo-WEB ONLY
Dr. Jeff Wells is moving on from the Indiana Medicaid program even as his $40 million cost-savings plan faces a threat in the General Assembly. Wells resigned Friday after two years as director of the Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning, a part of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration. He intends to finish […]
Medical records bonanza?-WEB ONLY
Grab a partner and dance. Fast. The stimulus bill passed last month essentially sets a five-year time line for doctors to start using electronic medical records and for states to figure out how to exchange those records from doctor to doctor. That has prompted Indiana businesses and not-for-profits that deal in medical records to look […]
Medical records bonanza?-WEB ONLY
Grab a partner and dance. Fast. The stimulus bill passed last month essentially sets a five-year time line for doctors to start using electronic medical records and for states to figure out how to exchange those records from doctor to doctor. That has prompted Indiana businesses and not-for-profits that deal in medical records to look […]
Health care IT firms rushing to grab share of stimulus
The stimulus bill has prompted Indiana businesses and not-for-profits that deal in medical records to look for partners to
help them meet the challenge of making those records electronic in five years.Wells leaves as Medicaid chief with cost-cutting plan in limbo
Dr. Jeff Wells is moving on from the Indiana Medicaid program even as a $40 million cost-savings plan he spearheaded faces
a threat in the Legislature.Health IT stimulus may not be enough, study says-WEB ONLY
Billions of stimulus dollars meant to spur doctors to switch to electronic record-keeping may not be enough to do the job, a private consulting firm said yesterday. The stimulus bill that President Barack Obama signed last month contained $19 billion for health information technology, including $17 billion for incentives and penalties to encourage doctors and […]