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WellPoint, other health insurers race to join accountable care groups
The health care industry is responding to reforms that will pay doctors bonuses if they provide high-quality care and save
Medicare money.Q&A
Dr. Kevin Macadaeg, vice president of the Indiana Spine Group, talked about his physician
group's decision to build a 60,000-square-foot medical office and "bioskills" lab in Carmel next year, as well
as the group's commitment to grow independently in the face of pressures from hospital acquisitions and health reform.St. Vincent seeks growth in transplants
St. Vincent Health is moving aggressively to expand its transplant program in a direct challenge to Clarian Health’s dominance
in the field. The Indianapolis-based hospital system filed in July for permission to conduct pancreas transplants. And down
the road, it’s eyeing liver and maybe even lung transplants.Dean named for planned osteopathic school at Marian
Marian University in Indianapolis has named the founding dean of an Atlanta-area medical school to head up the school for
osteopathic doctors it plans to open in 2012.Marian University goes on fundraising tear
Marian University pulled in a whopping $54.2 million in pledges for the fiscal year ended June 30, largely related to its
effort to launch Indiana’s first college of osteopathic medicine. The year before, the Catholic institution raised $14.4
million, an in-house record.iSalus sees business boom as docs chase stimulus cash
The company is seeing a rush of new sales for its Web-based electronic medical record system from doctors, who all stand to
receive bonus payments from the federal stimulus act for computerizing their patient records.People
Dr. Lawrence Monger, an internist focused on diet and exercise, has joined St. Vincent Physician Network in Fishers. Monger received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. He completed his internship at Walter Reed Army Medical School in Washington, D.C., and finished his internal medicine residency at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine in Minneapolis.
Dr. Michael Scott-Soon Eaton, a radiation oncologist, has joined the medical staff at St. Francis Cancer Center. Eaton also is affiliated with Cancer Care Group P.C. in Indianapolis and Major Hospital’s Benesse Oncology Center in Shelbyville.
Dr. Robyn L. Fean, a family and sports medicine physician, has established a practice at Plainfield Family and Sports Medicine and has joined St. Francis Sports Medicine.
Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana has hired Dawn Neumann as a clinical research associate. Neumann, who comes from Carolinas Rehabilitation in Charlotte, N.C., earned her master's degree in cognitive psychology from Rutgers University and her doctorate in rehabilitation science from the University at Buffalo.
The School of Science at IUPUI has added four professors to its department of psychology: Adam Hirsch, a pain researcher; Christopher Lapish, studies cognition and cognitive disorders, such as schizophrenia; Catherine Mosher, who is working on methods to reduce stress after a cancer diagnosis; and Elizabeth Poposki, who researches efforts to balance friendships, health and leisure.
Clarian West Medical Center named Dr. Gregory Spurgin, an internist, chief medical officer. He replaces Dr. James Fesenmeier, who will remain at Clarian West working on medical informatics.
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Marian University in Indianapolis has named the founding dean of an Atlanta-area medical school to head up the school for osteopathic doctors it plans to open in 2012. Paul Evans has been dean and chief academic officer for six years of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Suwanee, Ga. In his new position, he will lead efforts by the private Catholic university to establish Indiana's second medical school. Marian officials announced in January plans for the new school that they say could enroll 150 students in the first class. Construction hasn't started on the school. Osteopathic doctors have similar training to traditional physicians, but also are trained in diagnosing and treating musculoskeletal problems.
The Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Indiana Health Information Exchange will now work to make their systems talk to each other in a pilot project spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The department will invite veterans who receive medical care both at Roudebush and at private health care providers around central Indiana to sign up for the pilot. Records for patients who participate could be swapped from the VA providers to the private doctors and hospitals as needed. The Indiana Health Information Exchange provides access to the records of more than 6 million patients through its partnerships with 60 hospitals and the Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Institute Inc., which maintains decades of Indianapolis patient records in a database. The VA hospital in Indianapolis will communicate with the Indiana Health Information Exchange using a new “gateway” set up by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Called the Nationwide Health Information Network, it provides the technical and legal framework to allow patient information to be swapped electronically and securely.
A new report shows Indiana hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers recorded 94 preventable medical errors in 2009, a drop from the 105 mistakes reported in 2008 and 2007, according to the Associated Press. The most common error last year was a foreign object such as a sponge left in a patient after surgery. Indiana's 306 facilities reported that error 29 times. The report released Monday by the Indiana State Department of Health counted 17 instances of surgery performed on the wrong body part. Pressure ulcers, also known as severe bedsores, occurred 22 times—down from 33 the previous year.
WellPoint Inc. finally got its rate hike—five months after the storm. The Indianapolis-based health insurer won approval last week from regulators in California to raise rates on individual policyholders in the state by an average of 14 percent, according to the Associated Press. WellPoint had withdrawn a request for rate hikes averaging 25 percent—and ranging as high as 39 percent—after President Obama spotlighted them and public outrage ensued. The brouhaha has been credited with helping Obama push a stalled health reform law through Congress. An outside actuary hired by California regulators later found math errors in WellPoint’s calculations, which led to WellPoint withdrawing and then requesting the smaller increase.
Indiana to get share of Botox settlement
Botox maker Allergan Inc. said it would pay $600 million to settle a years-long federal investigation into its marketing of the drug. Indiana will get $636,000 of that money.
Clarian moves to scoop up Morgan
It looks like Clarian may be back to deal-making. The Indianapolis-based hospital system has signed a letter of intent to absorb Morgan Hospital and Medical Center.
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Dr. Elliot Androphy has been named chairman of the department of dermatology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Androphy joins IU from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was vice chairman for research.
Dr. Mark H. Belfer has joined St. Vincent Physician Network as chief medical officer. Prior to joining St. Vincent, Belfer was president and chief medical officer for Akron General Partners Physicians Group in Ohio.
Indianapolis-based SynCare LLC, a disease-management company serving Medicaid plans, named Ryan D. Chizum vice president of compliance and quality.
Five physicians joined Indianapolis-based Northwest Radiology Network: Dr. Michael S. Conley, medical director for Saint John’s Health System in Anderson; Dr. Joseph George, director of medical imaging at St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana; Dr. Eric Retrum, Dr. Kurt Returm and Dr. Sara Shull.
VoCare raises $2.2 million for telehealth device
The local startup expects to raise another $1.3 million this year and launch pilots of a new mobile device connecting patients with doctors.
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Dr. Jeffrey Weinberger has joined Community Heart and Vascular, a division of Community Health Network. Weinberger, a vascular surgeon, recently completed a fellowship in vascular surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Jinzhi Pu joined the IUPUI chemistry and chemical biology department as an assistant professor. Pu was most recently in post-doctoral training at Harvard University. Pu holds a bachelor's degree from Peking University and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota.
Rajesh Sardar joined the IUPUI chemistry and chemical biology department as an assistant professor after completing his post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Sardar earned bachelor's and master's degrees in India and a doctorate at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York.
Scott Roberts has been appointed business manager for St. Francis Hospital & Health Center’s imaging services. Roberts also will oversee operations of the hospital's Greenbrooke Imaging Center.
OrthoIndy added Dr. Brian Ludwig, an orthopedic surgeon with a focus in sports medicine, as well as Dr. Robert Marsh, an orthopedic surgeon with a focus in foot and ankle issues. Both physicians work at the OrthoIndy South office, 5255 E. Stop 11 Road.
Community moves to integrate doctors
Community Health now has about 550 physicians, either on its payroll or committed through integration contracts, who have some of their pay hinge on measures of quality and communication. CEO Bryan Mills says the hospital system is looking to add even more.Company news
Fewer than half of the physicians who received $1 million or more in consulting fees from orthopedic implant makers—including Warsaw’s Zimmer, Depuy Orthopaedics and Biomet—disclosed the financial ties in subsequent articles they wrote about the industry. That’s the finding of a study published this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine, according to a Bloomberg News report. The study authors focused on 40 orthopedic surgeon researchers who each received more than $1 million from a single orthopedic implant company in 2007. Those doctors published 95 articles related to the companies in 2008, the year following their payments, including studies, reviews and analyses designed to influence the future of patient care, according to the report. Just 44 of their articles disclosed the industry payments at all, and most of those that did merely stated that the author had receive more than $10,000 from the company. In all, five orthopedics companies made 985 payments to doctors for a total of $184 million in 2007 for consulting services, honoraria or assistance related to hip- and knee-replacement and reconstruction, with an average payment of $187,000.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has received a three-year, $335,309 grant from the National Science Foundation to expand undergraduate research projects in orthopedics. The governmental agency hopes research by engineering students leads to improved, cost effective designs for knee and hip implants. The projects are being conducted through a partnership with Rose-Hulman’s department of applied biology and biomedical engineering and the Joint Replacement Surgeons of Indiana Research Foundation based at the Center for Hip & Knee Surgery in Mooresville.
Biosciences Vaccines Inc., a firm trying to improve vaccines against infectious diseases and cancers, has moved its offices from South Bend to the Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette. Biosciences Vaccines adds its extracellular matrix technology to vaccines to make them work more effectively and at a reduced cost. The technology was licensed from Cook Biotech Inc., which is also based in the Purdue Research Park. Biosciences Vaccines was launched last year and received a $400,000 investment from the Indiana Seed Fund, which is managed by Indianapolis-based BioCrossroads, a life sciences business-development group.
Leases/leasing contracts
-Jones Lang LaSalle has been named leasing agent for Lake Pointe Center 5, a 150,000-square-foot office building in Allison Pointe office park. Adam Broderick of Jones Lang LaSalle has been named leasing agent for the two-year-old building, which has 90,000 square feet available. The building is owned by Edgeworth Laskey Properties LLC.
-Premium Supply Inc. leased 45,100 square feet in the North by Northeast Business Park, 9901 Kincaid Drive, Fishers. The tenant was represented by Fritz Kauffman of Cassidy Turley. The landlord, Prologis, was represented by Chip Barnes and Matt Dickerson of NAI Olympia Partners.
-University Pediatric Associates Inc. leased 27,245 square feet at 11590 N. Meridian St., Carmel. The tenant was represented by Zane Brown of CB Richard Ellis. The landlord, Fidelity Office Building II LP, was represented by Mike Napariu of REI Investments.
-Southside Family Physicians leased 8,245 square feet in Emerson Office Parke Building 2, 965 Emerson Parkway, Greenwood. The tenant was represented by Travis Tucker of Duke Realty. The landlord, Emerson Office Parke Building Two LLC, was represented by Greg W. Allen and John Cunningham of Allen Commercial Group.
-County Line Pediatrics leased 8,000 square feet in Greenbrooke Medical Pavilion Building 2, 747 E. County Line Road, Greenwood. The tenant was represented by Travis Tucker of Duke Realty. The landlord, GWA Wheatcraft LLC, was represented by Greg W. Allen and John Cunningham of Allen Commercial Group.
-Stewart-Richardson & Associates leased 5,414 square feet in the Regions Bank Tower, One Indiana Square. The landlord, One Indiana Square Associates, was represented by Ralph Balber and Kelli Dugan of Halakar Real Estate. The tenant represented itself.
-Re/Max Select leased 3,000 square feet in Library Parke, 489 S. State Road 135, Greenwood. The tenant was represented by Keith Turnbill of Re/Max Select. The landlord, Greg Allen Property Management, was represented by Greg W. Allen and John Cunningham of Allen Commercial Group.
-Miebach Consulting Inc. leased 2,982 square feet in Market Square Center, 151 N. Delaware St. The tenant was represented by Matthew Tobe of Halakar Real Estate. The landlord, Hertz Indianapolis One LLC, was represented by Crystal Houston and Dan Richardson of CB Richard Ellis.
-Crown Liquors leased 2,760 square feet at Westside Center, 645 W 11th St. The tenant was represented by Mark Perlstein of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate. The landlord, Westside Development Corp., was represented by John Schick of The Broadbent Co.
-Qdoba leased 2,275 square feet at Greenfield Corner Shops, 2037 N. State St., Greenfield. The tenant was represented by Larry Davis of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate. The landlord, MAP Greenfield LLC, was represented by Jeff Hubley of Midland Atlantic.
-Jimmy Johns leased 1,625 square feet at Speedway Shoppes, 5949 Crawfordsville Road. The tenant was represented by Drew Warner of Eclipse Real Estate. The landlord, Westside Development Corp., was represented by Mark Perlstein of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate.
-LBL's Salon leased 1,600 square feet at Plainfield Commons II, 2683 E. Main St., Plainfield. The tenant was represented by Dawn Lyon of Site Link Commercial Realty. The landlord, Plainfield Commons II LLC, was represented by Liz Yoho of Providence Development.
-Chun Lin leased 1,300 square feet of retail space at 9546 Allisonville Road. The landlord, LOR Corp., was represented by Jacque Haynes of Cassidy Turley. The tenant represented itself.
Corrections
-St. Francis Medical Group LLC, for Southeast Family Physicians, leased 8,245 square feet in Emerson Office Parke Building 2, 965 Emerson Parkway, Greenwood. The tenant was represented by Travis Tucker of Duke Realty. The landlord, Emerson Office Parke Building Two LLC, was represented by Greg W. Allen and John Cunningham of Allen Commercial Group. The name of the tenant was incorrect in last week’s Real Estate Weekly.
-Jordan-Fishers LLC bought the 40,000-square-foot Village Square retail center at 11033-11361 Allisonville Road, Fishers. The price wasn’t disclosed. The buyer was represented by Keith Dedrick of Corporate Commercial Group. The seller, Huntington Bank, was represented by Bob Barker of Z&B Realty Services. Kevin Broadrick of Marcus & Millichap worked with both buyer and seller. The name of the seller’s broker was incorrect in last week’s Real Estate Weekly.
Company news
Indianapolis-based Adult and Child Center won $2 million from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to improve access to primary care for Americans with serious mental illnesses. Such patients die, on average, 25 years earlier than those without such conditions, according to a 2006 report by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. During the four-year project, Adult and Child will have a primary-care physician and nurse care coordinator available to patients at its mental health center. The medical staff will try to address patients with mental illnesses who also suffer from chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity.
A $1.9 million federal stimulus grant will enable the Indiana University School of Medicine's department of family medicine to add two residents a year in the Lafayette area. IU’s family medicine residency program currently accepts 10 doctors annually for post-med-school training as family physicians. The grant will enable the program to add two residency slots in collaboration with Clarian Arnett Health, St. Elizabeth Regional Health and Riggs Community Health Center in Lafayette. IU med school officials hope graduates of the residency program will set up medical practices in and around Lafayette, which like much of Indiana has a shortage of primary-care physicians. The expansion of the residency program will be effective in July 2011.
Lilly Endowment Inc. gave $4 million to Indiana University to help address ethical, legal and social issues involved in the growing sharing and study of health information. IU will create the Center for Law, Ethics and Applied Research in Health Information (CLEAR Health Information). The center also will partner with government, industry and not-for-profit groups in an effort to increase reliability and trust in the use of health information.
Columbus Regional Hospital is suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to recover $17.1 million in federal funds the hospital claims it is owed due to damages caused by a massive flood. The June 2008 flood, designated a federal disaster, caused $167 million in damages and business-income losses to the hospital, which did not fully reopen until nearly five months later. The suit, filed Sept. 15 in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, accuses FEMA of violating federal regulations, negligence and misrepresentation for failing to pay the full amount the hospital says it is owed. The flooding from nearby Haw Creek filled the hospital’s basement to the 12-foot ceiling and partially submerged the first floor. Key medical equipment destroyed by the flood included radiology scanners, radiography and fluoroscopy systems, ultrasounds, cardiac-catherization labs, biopsy tables and biochemical analyzers.