President Obama’s budget chief isn’t sugarcoating his message to health insurance executives: the party is over. White House Budget Director Peter Orszag said yesterday in Washington, D.C., that the government will no longer overpay companies that offer Medicare Advantage plans, the privately run portion of the government health program for seniors. Orszag spoke at the […]
Now that Medicare is calling for all doctors it deals with to use electronic medical records by 2015, it could hasten the trend of physicians merging with hospitals or larger groups. But it could also speed up the retirement of aging physicians at a time when they are in short supply. That’s according to John-David […]
Three entrepreneurs from the medical and software realms are herding angels to invest in upstart life sciences companies in Indiana. StepStone Angels won’t be a fund, per se, but a membership-based group that brings together wealthy investors and slides promising companies their way for evaluation. Angel investors typically bridge the gap between an early-stage company’s […]
Three entrepreneurs from the medical and software realms are herding angels to invest in upstart life sciences companies in
Indiana.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
The wages paid by a company to its employees are a distinctly private matter.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
IBJ reporter J.K. Wall asked Bryan A. Mills about his new job as Community Health Networks next CEO.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
