After a national search, Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana Inc. has named its own chief operating officer to succeed CEO Jim McClelland, who has held the job for 41 years.
By subtly threatening the loss of patients via a new “reference lab network,” the Indianapolis-based health insurer has persuaded 63 Indiana hospitals to slash their prices for blood and tissue testing by as much as 80 percent—beyond the discounts Anthem had already negotiated with them.
Economic actors are constantly bringing supply and demand into balance, although they are rarely aware of this. However, responding to market incentives tends to undermine discrimination.
Indiana University Health is in talks to form a partnership with Tennessee-based Community Health Systems for its two hospitals in northwest Indiana. According to the Times of Northwest Indiana, IU Health has entered a nonbinding agreement to form a limited liability company that would include its hospitals in LaPorte and Knox as well as their […]
Nurses in Indiana are underpaid, relative to their peers nationally. They are not overworked from a sheer number of hours, but the demands of hospitals nurses have spiked recently, reducing nurses’ margin for caring for patients with a human touch. For a business that competes on service and, increasingly, on price, those are big problems.
The widely publicized unemployment rate is one of those chameleon numbers, where apparent good is sometimes bad, and vice versa. All is not always what it seems when you peek behind the wizard’s curtain.
New research from the Mayo Clinic is bringing back a long-running debate over whether drug companies like Eli Lilly and Biogen are focusing on the right target in developing therapies to treat the disease.
The fact that Assembly Biosciences Inc. and AgeneBio now list New York and Baltimore, respectively, as their headquarters cities doesn’t hurt Indiana and could help the state, says David Johnson, CEO of BioCrossroads.
New research shows patients lose trust and confidence in doctors that take money for travel, but like it when their doctors are paid as consultants during the development of new products.
Marketers today are driven more by data than by gut feelings. Technologists, meanwhile, are getting more involved in marketing, partly to help make their enterprises money instead of just costing money.
Macerich Co.’s rejection of a $16 billion buyout offer and adoption of takeover defenses leaves Simon Property Group Inc. with few options but to make a higher bid to win the mall landlord.
One-third of Indiana’s buyers on Obamacare exchanges were new to their health plans this year—tying Indiana for sixth among the 37 states using the federal exchange.
