For some time, I have been unhappy with using the term “capitalism” to describe the ascendant form of economic organization. I prefer “free market” to describe the workings of the United States and much of the world.
Independent health care facilities, like Body One Physical Therapy, are seeing referrals from physicians beginning to slacken as more and more doctors become employees of hospitals. The hospitals request that doctors send patients to their in-house physical therapy practices.
The Indiana Health Information Exchange Inc. appointed Dr. Josh Nelson as its chief medical officer. He will discuss medical issues with customers and stakeholders of IHIE, a not-for-profit organization that provides access to patient medical records and data from those records. Previously, Nelson was a physician executive fellow at Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. He holds a business degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a medical degree from UC-Davis. Nelson began his medical career as a hospitalist at the California-based Kaiser Permanente health system.
Dr. Sonal Bazeley recently joined Anesthesia Consultants of Indianapolis LLC, which now has nine physicians. Bazeley previously practiced in Lansing, Mich. She did her medical training at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo.
Franciscan Alliance’s Indianapolis-area hospitals, along with more than 700 physicians, have been named one of the nation’s first 32 accountable care organizations.
As it is in the rest of the country, the 2010 health reform in Indiana continues to be unpopular, unlikely to be repealed and uncertain to put a dent in health spending, according to a poll of Hoosiers released last week by Ball State University.
The Indianapolis-based partnership is among 32 in the U.S. chosen for a model program designed to provide more coordinated care for people served by Medicare.
The indictment charges the Democrat and associates used a charitable foundation to obtain money from a doctor that was to be used for investments, but instead went toward vehicles, entertainment and travel for themselves and others.
A City-County Council member and two associates persuaded an Indiana physician to invest $1.7 million in their foundation and an ethanol-production business they said would fund it, but instead spent the money on personal luxuries, according to a federal indictment filed late Tuesday.
Most of our failures as a society end up in the emergency room, and in central Indiana that often means Wishard.
Anesthesia Consultants of Indianapolis LLC has 80 physicians. The size of the Indianapolis-based practice was reported incorrectly in the Dec. 19 edition of IBJ Health Care & Reform Weekly.
Eli Lilly and Co., after more than a decade of setbacks, is counting on diabetes to help it survive a string of patent losses on other products that have begun to sap the drugmaker’s sales.
Dr. Eric L. DeWeese, a pulmonologist, joined Danville-based Hendricks Regional Health Medical Group on Jan. 1. DeWeese treats patients with diseases of the chest and lungs, emphysema, asthma, pneumonia, lung cancer, respiratory failure and sleep disorders. He did his medical training at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Five cancer physicians from Indianapolis-based Community Health Network began seeing patients Jan. 2 at the Cancer Care Center of Franklin-based Johnson Memorial Hospital. The arrangement is part of the clinical collaboration the two hospital systems signed in March 2011. The new physicians are Dr. Anuj Agarwala, Dr. Pablo Bedano, Dr. Sumeet Bhatia, Dr. Hermachandra Venkatesh and Dr. Radhika Walling. They join Dr. Anita Conte, who previously staffed the Cancer Care Center.
Indiana University Health Physicians started as the Indiana Clinic three years ago with plans to employ at least 1,200 physicians by now. That hasn’t happened, but the organization said it won’t stop folding doctors into its organization.
Indiana House Democrats will have to return to work before an anti-smoking bill and other popular legislation can make it into law.
Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital hired Dr. Jeffrey Walker as its lead physician in the palliative care services department. A graduate of the IU School of Medicine, Walker spent most of the past three years as medical director of the Matthew 25 Health Clinic in Fort Wayne.
IU Health also hired Dr. Shiplee Sinha to be a staff physician in the palliative care services department under Walker. She graduated from Armed Forces Medical College in India and has been employed with IU Health Physicians as a hospitalist since 2006.
Stephen Wheatley, a registered nurse, has been named operations director of Franciscan St. Francis Health’s new Carmel hospital, at 12188 N. Meridian St. Franciscan St. Francis Health Carmel, opening in phases now through April 1, is designed as a short-stay medical center. It will have six inpatient beds and facilities for outpatient services. Wheatley has spent nearly 10 years as administrator of the Franciscan Surgery Center in Indianapolis. From 1990 to 2002, he was a surgical first assistant for Cardiac and Vascular Surgery Associates. Wheatley received his bachelor’s degree in nursing from Indiana University School of Nursing in 1980.
A new onslaught of Medicare data might shine more light on providers, but tricky questions abound.
Why not recognize real local contribution rather than celebrity?
We are all selfish for wanting him to stay on the field and entertain us.
A number of acquisitions last year disclosed no sale price. In the Indianapolis area, those deals ranged from MacAllister Machinery’s purchase of a Caterpillar dealership in Michigan to Herff Jones’ acquisition of a Memphis, Tenn.-headquartered maker of cheerleading uniforms.
