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ABDUL-HAKIM SHABAZZ Commentary: Politicians are playing games with lives

August 7, 2006

If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you probably know crime has been at a record high in Marion County. The homicide rate hasn’t been this bad since the Backstreet Boys had a hit song. The year was 1998, by the way. In addition, burglary, robbery and larceny are all up double digits, percentage wise. And while we’ve all heard about the Hamilton Avenue murders that left a family of seven dead or the shootings that took place…

Gateway shuts the door on benefits enhancement: Indianapolis company will cease operations Aug. 30; CEO hopes to reopen

August 7, 2006

Gateway Medical Resource Alliance, a niche health care benefits company, will shut down Aug. 30, more than a month after losing the lone Indianapolis hospital in its network. The company, which has shrunk to six workers, provides employers discounts for certain cardiology, orthopedics and oncology care. In return for fees from the employers, Gateway offers flat, all-inclusive prices for procedures. It also offers prescription and wellness services. CEO Terry Kopp said he still hopes to find another hospital to resuscitate…

WellPoint putting members’ medical records online: Access to electronic medical information could reduce health care errrors and avoid unneccesary procedures

August 7, 2006

A benefits package WellPoint Inc. unveiled in July includes an ambitious effort that enables its 34 million members to access their medical records online. WellPoint’s initiative to make the records available electronically is but one example of a national movement, backed by President Bush, to make all medical records available online within the next 10 years. Advocates say online systems can reduce medical errors and avoid unnecessary procedures by making patients’ medical needs and histories available to doctors instantaneously. Indianapolis-based…

Indiana midwife debate headed for another round: Committee to study issue; bill set to be reintroduced

July 17, 2006

A bill that would give women what some say is their right to choose where and how they can give birth has been incubating in the state’s General Assembly for eight years. But hopes are running high for the proposed law that would regulate and expand midwifery in Indiana because it will be studied by a special committee this summer for a possible reintroduction in the 2007 legislative session. Under current Indiana law, only doctors and registered nurses are able…

Moratorium nearing its expiration date: Experts don’t expect flurry of new specialty hospitals

July 17, 2006

Health care experts don’t predict a surge in specialty hospital construction after a federal moratorium expires next month. Even so, the rift between competing industry interests is expected to intensify. Moratoriums on new physician-owned heart, orthopedic and surgical specialty hospitals dating back to the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 temporarily stalled the rapid growth of the facilities. In Indianapolis, three such hospitals-the Heart Center of Indiana, the Indiana Heart Hospital and the Indiana Orthopaedic Hospital-opened between December 2002 and March…

VIEWPOINT: Consumers should take charge of health

July 17, 2006

In an environment where we’re all being asked to pay a larger share of our own health care costs, it’s interesting to see how little time we spend thinking about major decisions that have an impact on our health. Like selecting a primary care physician or any medical specialist, for example. According to a recent Managed Care Weekly Digest survey, 67 percent of U.S. adults ages 18-64 said they spent eight hours or more researching an automobile purchase, yet only…

Firm may hold key to earlier detection: Startup lands grants for breast cancer biomarker

July 17, 2006

Linda Malkas’ arrival at the Indiana University School of Medicine four years ago is beginning to look like a coup for the city’s life sciences initiative. Armed with promising cancer research, Malkas helped found CS-Keys Inc., which last month received a $285,000 infusion from BioCrossroads’ Indiana Seed Fund and is poised to net a similar investment July 17 from Triathlon Medical Ventures in Cincinnati. The additional capital is critical to the startup’s continuing development of a biomarker that detects breast…

Westview soldiers on amid health care explosion: Hospital fares well against larger, newer competition

July 10, 2006

A touch-screen directory, a grove of potted trees and a muffin-bearing kiosk greet visitors entering the six-story atrium at the new Clarian North Medical Center in Carmel. A much milder scene awaits people walking into Westview Hospital a few miles away, on the west side of Indianapolis. There, a lonely player piano spills soft tunes into a one-story lobby filled with clusters of chairs and pamphlets on volunteering. “Quiet! Healing in Progress” reads a nearby sign. Indiana’s lone osteopathic hospital…

Patient safety center steers clear of the blame game: New approach modeled after aviation industry

July 3, 2006

Indiana hospitals are drawing inspiration from the aviation industry for their latest push to reduce medical errors. The Indiana Patient Safety Center, which opened July 1, will foster a blamefree approach to reporting errors, much like the environment promoted by the Federal Aviation Administration. The result will be a culture that encourages system analysis to fix flaws that lead to an error, rather than one that merely heaps blame on the person who committed it, said Bob Morr, vice president…

Billing survey puts WellPoint in last: Insurer calls ‘pain in the butt’ index flawed, but some doctors say findings aren’t surprising

June 26, 2006

A physician-billing service recently gave WellPoint Inc. a virtual spanking over its sometimesstrained relationship with doctors. M a s s a c h u s e t t s – b a s e d Athenahealth Inc. rated the Indianapolis insurer last out of seven national payers in its so-called “pain in the butt” index posted online late last month. The unusual index aims to tell doctors how easy-or difficult-it is to work with each insurer by using data the…

Women MD numbers soar: Title IX passage in 1970 credited with spurring educational opportunities

June 12, 2006

When Colleen Brown graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in May, she was part of a class making history. For the first time, the medical school was graduating more women physicians than men-131 and 128, respectively. Since 1970, there has been a 10-fold increase in the number of women physicians, according to a February 2006 study by the American Medical Association. In 1970, only 25,404 women graduated in the United States in all medical specialties. By 2004, the…

Health network leaders pursue big dreams: Advocates: Statewide system for transmitting patient records would improve care

June 12, 2006

Technology experts, doctors and politicians this week will discuss the possibility of interconnecting the handful of computer networks in Indiana that allow doctors to exchange patient information. They say a network reaching every corner of the state could save money, boost care and reduce medical errors while keeping Indiana at the front of the national pack for this technology. However, none of the health-information network leaders who will convene for a summit this week in Indianapolis expects the network to…

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Beware of battles brewing among health care giants

June 5, 2006

Coming up with simple metaphors and images that faithfully represent the issues involved in the way we pay for health care in our country is a challenge. But one keeps coming to my mind: the kitsch Japanese sci-fi classic “Godzilla vs. Rodan,” where two giant monsters duke it out breathing fire and smashing buildings as the residents of Tokyo quake in fear, waiting to see who will win. Some similarly big battles are brewing in the health care business these…

Emerging Riley specialty to look for more doctors: Hospital emergency department sees rapid growth

May 22, 2006

Riley Hospital for Children is looking for a few good doctors to man its bulkedup Emergency Department, the latest sign of the swelling national demand for pediatric ER services. Indianapolis-based Emergency Medical Group Inc. will take over management of Riley’s Emergency Department July 1 and bring in a new medical director, Dr. Bob Collins. He, in turn, might hire as many as seven doctors trained in pediatric emergency medicine over the next few years, some of whom may replace physicians…

Tower erector rises from ruin: Once bankrupt, water tank firm grows into industry giant, acquires competitor

May 22, 2006

From the ashes of bankruptcy in 1986, an Avon-based firm has ascended to the top of an industry that might seem old-fashioned: building and maintaining water towers. But the owners of Phoenix Fabricators and Erectors Inc. say new demand for their product, driven by factors as diverse as aesthetics and alternative fuels, promises to boost the firm’s $80 million in annual sales as Phoenix grows from within and through acquisitions. Phoenix this month acquired Sebree, Ky.-based Pittsburgh Tank and Tower…

Selling change at Lilly: Company overhauls strategy its thousands of sales reps use to tout drugs to doctors

May 15, 2006

Eli Lilly and Co. is rolling out a new approach to selling drugs, one that aims to build deeper relationships with doctors while cutting the number of sales reps knocking on their office door. The reorganization project, dubbed “sales force of the future,” is just what the doctor ordered, according to Lilly executives. They say physicians want fewer sales calls and a deeper knowledge base from those who still stop by. “Doctors want that primarily because they’re treating patients and…

Health care with privileges: Boutique medical practices buy time for doctors, patients

May 8, 2006

Membership definitely has its privileges at the new north-side medical practice launched by doctors Timothy Story and Kevin McCallum. An annual retainer of at least $2,500 gives patients around-the-clock doctor access, medical records they can carry on a key chain, unlimited office visits and refreshments when they arrive. FirstLine Personal Health Care represents the Indianapolis market’s latest foray into boutique medicine, a form of health care criticized for being exclusionary since it popped up in Seattle a decade ago. Story,…

Negotiations halted over sale of HealthCare Group: M-Plan owner, Medical Mutual ‘agree to disagree’ but leave door open

April 24, 2006

A plan to merge the parent of Indiana’s largest HMO with an Ohio insurer has fallen through, but both companies continue to shop for other deals. Cleveland-based Medical Mutual of Ohio a month ago cut off negotiations to buy The HealthCare Group LLC of Indianapolis, which operates M-Plan Inc. But Medical Mutual “would never say never” to future overtures, said Michael Taddeo, the insurer’s vice president of national network development. “We’ve agreed to disagree,” he said, declining to elaborate on…

Paid boards spur not-for-profit debate: Critics: If directors won’t give time, who will?

April 17, 2006

Indianapolis-based USA Funds is a large, complex organization, and members of its governing board are busy people. Same goes for the NCAA, another local not-for-profit with a national reach, a nine-figure budget and directors who are anything but professional volunteers. The two organizations have one key difference, though: USA Funds pays its board members. The NCAA does not. “It’s simply the nature of the world,” said Norm Lefstein, an Indiana University law professor who chairs the compensation committee at student-loan…

Clinic can’t pull its weight: Forest Health leaves behind $11M hospital

April 17, 2006

“They’re not the most communicative people in the world, so I don’t really have a good reason, other than the fact that I think at one point they thought they had a group of doctors to operate the clinic with, and it fell through,” said Jack Hogan, a senior vice president for Indianapolis-based Lauth. Forest Health corporate attorney Marie Paratto referred questions to Laurence H. Lenz Jr., an A bariatric surgery center built for roughly $11 million a couple years…

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ABDUL-HAKIM SHABAZZ Commentary: Politicians are playing games with lives

Gateway shuts the door on benefits enhancement: Indianapolis company will cease operations Aug. 30; CEO hopes to reopen

WellPoint putting members’ medical records online: Access to electronic medical information could reduce health care errrors and avoid unneccesary procedures

Indiana midwife debate headed for another round: Committee to study issue; bill set to be reintroduced

Moratorium nearing its expiration date: Experts don’t expect flurry of new specialty hospitals

VIEWPOINT: Consumers should take charge of health

Firm may hold key to earlier detection: Startup lands grants for breast cancer biomarker

Westview soldiers on amid health care explosion: Hospital fares well against larger, newer competition

Patient safety center steers clear of the blame game: New approach modeled after aviation industry

Billing survey puts WellPoint in last: Insurer calls ‘pain in the butt’ index flawed, but some doctors say findings aren’t surprising

Women MD numbers soar: Title IX passage in 1970 credited with spurring educational opportunities

Health network leaders pursue big dreams: Advocates: Statewide system for transmitting patient records would improve care

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Beware of battles brewing among health care giants

Emerging Riley specialty to look for more doctors: Hospital emergency department sees rapid growth

Tower erector rises from ruin: Once bankrupt, water tank firm grows into industry giant, acquires competitor

Selling change at Lilly: Company overhauls strategy its thousands of sales reps use to tout drugs to doctors

Health care with privileges: Boutique medical practices buy time for doctors, patients

Negotiations halted over sale of HealthCare Group: M-Plan owner, Medical Mutual ‘agree to disagree’ but leave door open

Paid boards spur not-for-profit debate: Critics: If directors won’t give time, who will?

Clinic can’t pull its weight: Forest Health leaves behind $11M hospital