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Statehouse update: School safety, Common Core, teacher incentives, abortion and more
State lawmakers on Wednesday weighed in on legislation involving mobile-phone snooping, education issues, abortion restrictions, sex trafficking, guns, abandoned houses, veteran injuries and several more topics. Here’s a rundown.
2014 Forty Under 40: K. Alicia Schulhof
K. Alicia Schulhof, 34, a senior vice president for IU Health, initially thought she wanted to be a physician. But while studying at Purdue University, she became involved in student organizations and found she enjoyed the administrative and leadership side.
Panel delays vote on bill to require prescription for cold meds
A committee heard two hours of testimony Monday on a bill that would make medicine containing pseudoephedrine a schedule III drug. The committee did not vote.
St. Vincent hospitals not quite as rich as they seem
St. Vincent Health has been sending roughly $50 million to $70 million every year to its parent company, St. Louis-based Ascension Health, to support other hospitals in Ascension’s 93-hospital network.
New tiered network trips up IU Health, UnitedHealthcare talks
In spite of offers to strike a short-term extension, UnitedHealthcare and Indiana University Health are still hung up in contract negotiations on one key point: Minnesota-based UnitedHealthcare wants to create a multi-tiered network of providers and services that would offer the lowest co-pays and deductibles for favored hospital systems—which IU Health is not.
Company news
Eli Lilly and Co. is reportedly willing to pay as much as $3.7 billion to acquire a Massachusetts-based biotech company with a troubled leukemia drug, according to the U.K. newspaper The Mail. The paper claims that Indianapolis-based Lilly is the leading suitor for Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc., along with U.K.-based GlaxoSmithKline plc and Ireland-based Shire PLC. All three firms made “friendly approaches” to Ariad, according to The Mail, and are willing to pay up to $20 per share. Ariad currently has 185.7 million shares outstanding, meaning such a purchase price would total $3.7 billion. The Mail is not a regular source of financial news, and its article bases its report on “whispers heard across the Pond” by “dealers.” Lilly spokesman Mark Taylor declined to comment on the rumors.
Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. said it will eliminate about 350 jobs over the next two years as a cost-saving move after the maker of hospital equipment saw profit grow slower than expected. Batesville-based Hill-Rom said 200 of the cuts will occur in the United States, with the balance occurring in Europe. Because the cuts will be made, in part, via a voluntary retirement program, Hill-Rom said it does not yet know how many cuts will occur in Indiana. The U.S. portion of the cuts are scheduled to be complete by the end of March. The European job cuts will play out over the next two years. The cuts, which represent about 5 percent of Hill-Rom’s 6,800 workers, will save the company $30 million per year, boosting profit by about 35 cents per share. Over the past four years, Hill-Rom has already eliminated about 1,000 jobs. “Economic uncertainty for our customers continues to impact the timing and the level of capital spending for our key product categories. The weak order rates in the last two quarters and the volatility over the past year reflect the challenges we continue to experience in our core market,” Hill-Rom CEO John Greisch told investors last week. Hill-Rom reported earnings per share of 22 cents in the three months ended Dec. 31, down 44 percent from the same quarter of 2012. Revenue fell 8 percent from the previous year, to $393 million.
The Indiana Senate passed a bill Thursday that would halt construction on nursing homes. Senate Bill 173 would also prohibit additional comprehensive care beds at existing facilities, according to the StatehouseFile.com, but continuing care retirement homes and assisted living would be exempt from the construction moratorium. “Building new facilities will add more unneeded beds at a time when utilization of skilled nursing facilities is decreasing,” said Sen. Patricia Miller, R-Indianapolis, who authored the bill. The bill now moves to the House for consideration.
The Indiana Medical Licensing Board suspended the license of Dr. Frank Campbell, an Anderson physician linked to drug-related deaths of 31 people. The Herald Bulletin reported the board also fined Campbell $500 on each of the six counts of violating physician regulations filed by state authorities. Campbell can seek reinstatement in a year. Campbell was medical director of the Madison County Community Health Center until the Drug Enforcement Administration questioned him last year over allowing two physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances using prescriptions he pre-signed. Campbell said he trusted the assistants and pre-signed prescriptions for expediency. An Indiana Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigator submitted a court affidavit saying 31 of Campbell's patients died drug-related deaths since January 2009.
Nursing home construction measure passes Senate
Senate Bill 173 would prohibit the State Department of Health from approving the development of new nursing homes.
Biological drug bill advances to full Senate
The Indiana Senate is set to consider legislation that could give patients access to more options for drug treatments that derive from biological organisms.
Indiana board suspends doctor linked to 31 deaths
The Indiana Medical Licensing Board on Wednesday suspended the license of 83-year-old Dr. Frank Campbell, former medical director of the Madison County Community Health Center.
Hopelessly divided Congress agrees on one thing: Cutting payments to providers
Congress’ recent willingness to play hardball with providers is driving providers to cautiously embrace concepts—like pay-for-performance and keeping patients out of the hospitals—they have long resisted.
Company news
The folks at Lumosity, the San Francisco company that tries to improve human brain cognition, must have cheered when they saw this study partly led by a researcher at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The study, published this month by the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, found that seniors who underwent exercises meant to boost mental sharpness still showed benefits up to a decade later. The study involved 2,800 seniors living independently in Indianapolis and six other regions. Lumosity, which makes a smartphone app to exercise your brain, is one of numerous programs, both online and offline, that are meant to boost mental sharpness in older adults.
Over-the-counter medications for common colds and allergies, such as DayQuil, could become harder to obtain under an Indiana House bill introduced this month. According to the Associated Press, HB-1106, authored by Rep. Rebecca Kubacki, R-Syracuse, would make medication containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine a schedule III drug, which means it couldn’t be purchased without a doctor’s visit and prescription. An existing law puts a limit on how much ephedrine and pseudoephedrine can be purchased in a day, month or year. But, Kubacki said she doesn’t think the law goes far enough. However, Dr. Richard Feldman, chairman of legislation for the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians, said the medical community prefers the existing legislation to Kubacki’s new bill. “We think it’s adequate; we don’t want any more restrictions,” Feldman said. He added, “The last thing that the doctors I talked to want is to be overrun with patient visits for an over-the-counter drug that should remain over-the-counter, rather than seeing patients who deserve their attention.”
WellPoint Inc.’s core operations turned out more profit than the company predicted, the Indianapolis-based health insurer disclosed in a Jan. 13 securities filing. WellPoint raised its 2013 profit forecast to $8.52 per share, up 12 cents from a previous forecast of $8.40 per share. The company has yet to close its books on 2013. It will reveal its actual 2013 financial results Jan. 29. The new forecast roughly matches what Wall Street analysts were expecting. A survey of 23 analysts by Thomson Reuters found an average 2013 profit forecast of $8.51 per share, even before the disclosure. Both WellPoint’s and analyst forecasts exclude a variety of special charges, such as investment gains, the early extinguishment of debt, a favorable tax ruling and a charge related to WellPoint’s sale of its 1-800-Contacts subsidiary. When those items are included, WellPoint’s 2013 profit would total $8.20 per share, according to Monday’s disclosure. In October, WellPoint predicted full-year profit would total $8.45 per share. But that was before the 54-cent-per-share charge for the 1-800-Contacts sale was announced.
In late December 2013, the Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis gave $440,376 to three organizations that will help Hoosiers navigate the Obamacare health insurance exchange. A grant of $270,000 was awarded to Indiana 2-1-1, a call-in service for obtaining information about social assistance, to maintain detailed information about the exchange navigators and application counselors that have been approved by the government to help exchange customers. A sample conducted in May 2013 showed that 38 percent of callers to Indiana 2-1-1 have at least one person in the household without health insurance. The Indiana Primary Health Care Association will receive $70,376 to train 26 certified Navigators to provide continuing education to at least 126 state-certified Navigators in state-funded and federally qualified health centers. Because of the cost of the federal certification process, many state-funded health centers, especially in rural areas, have been unable to certify their enrollment staff. Also, $100,000 was granted to Eskenazi Health to extend its media and outreach campaign through the end of the first open enrollment period in March 2014. The campaign promotes Eskenazi Health’s toll-free Navigator Call Center (1-855-202-1053), which answers consumer questions and provides assistance in obtaining health insurance through the Obamacare exchanges.
People
Dr. Anthony Sorkin, an orthopedic trauma surgeon, has been named system medical director of Indiana University Health Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Sorkin joined IU Health Physicians a year ago to treat patients with traumatic injuries at IU Health Methodist Hospital. Prior to IU Health, Sorkin served as director of orthopedic traumatology for Rockford Orthopedics in Illinois. Sorkin earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Miami and his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. Sachin Mehta, a rehabilitation and physical medicine doctor, has joined Franciscan Physician Network Rehabilitation Specialists in Indianapolis. He most recently served as medical director of the brain injury and rehabilitation programs at Marianjoy Medical Group, Wheaton, Ill. He received a bachelor’s degree in biology at Lehigh University and a medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Bill calls for concussion training for high school coaches
Indiana could soon become the first state to require high school football coaches to take part in a player safety and concussion-training course.
Prescription could be required to buy cold medicine
Over-the-counter medications for common colds and allergies could become more regulated under a Indiana House bill introduced last week.
OK, I’m convinced: Hospitals actually are transforming
There are clear signs that hospitals nationally, and even here in Indianapolis, are actually starting to make good on their promises to keep patients healthier and out of the hospital.
SOWELL: Facts challenge our beliefs about race
Depressing news about black students’ scoring far below white students on various mental tests has become so familiar that people in different parts of the ideological spectrum long ago developed their different explanations for why this is so. But both may have to do some rethinking, in light of radically different news from England.
Leases/leasing contracts
-JD Byrider renewed and expanded its lease to 61,326 square feet at Hamilton Crossing I, 12722-12802 Hamilton Crossing, Carmel. The tenant was represented by Brian Askins of Summit Realty Group. The landlord, Duke Realty Corp., was represented by Duke's Traci Kapsalis.
-First Databank renewed its lease for 27,345 square feet in Four Parkwood, 500 E. 96th St. The tenant was represented by Tom Hadley of Summit Realty Group. The landlord, Duke Realty Corp., was represented by Duke's Traci Kapsalis.
-Cohen Garelick & Glazier Professional Corp. leased 12,268 square feet at 8888 Keystone Crossing. The tenant was represented by Tim Hull of CBRE. The landlord, Philadelphia-based Equus Capital Partners Ltd., was represented by John R. Robinson and Abby Cooper Zito of Jones Lang LaSalle.
-Community Health Networks Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation renewed its lease for 9,200 square feet at Hillsdale Business Park, Hillsdale Court and North Shadeland Avenue. The tenant was represented by Rob Lukemeyer of Baseline Commercial Real Estate. The landlord, Hillsdale Property Owner LLC, was represented by Brian Buschuk, Kevin Gillihan and Jack Hogan of Jones Lang LaSalle.
-Messer Construction renewed its lease for 7,608 square feet at 6964 Hillsdale Court in the Hillsdale Business Park. The landlord, Hillsdale Property Owner LLC, was represented by Brian Buschuk, Kevin Gillihan and Jack Hogan of Jones Lang LaSalle. The tenant represented itself.
-Community Health Networks' Northeast Family Physicians renewed its lease for 7,038 square feet at 6910 Hillsdale Court in the Hillsdale Business Park. The tenant was represented by Rob Lukemeyer of Baseline Commercial Real Estate. The landlord, Hillsdale Property Owner LLC, was represented by Brian Buschuk, Kevin Gillihan and Jack Hogan of Jones Lang LaSalle.
-Cornerstone Associates renewed two leases totaling 8,892 square feet at 6967 Hillsdale Court in the Hillsdale Business Park. The landlord, Hillsdale Property Owner LLC, was represented by Brian Buschuk, Kevin Gillihan and Jack Hogan of Jones Lang LaSalle. The tenant represented itself.
-Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc. leased 4,712 square feet of office space at 30 S. Meridian St. The tenant was represented by Timothy Norton of Summit Realty Group. The landlord, Kite Realty Group, was represented by Mike Semler and John Crisp of Cassidy Turley.
-Moisture Management Services Co. LLC leased 4,080 square feet of industrial space at 9855 Crosspoint Blvd. The tenant was represented by Paul Dick and Kevin Dick of Colliers International. The landlord, Clarion Partners, was represented by Fritz Kauffman and Bryan Poynter of Cassidy Turley.
-The Dermatology Center of Indiana leased 3,200 square feet of retail space at 6705 S. State Road 334, Zionsville. The tenant was represented by Jim Mount of Hokanson Companies. The landlord, Duke Realty Corp., was represented by Jacque Haynes and John Byrne of Cassidy Turley.
-Reach For Youth Inc. leased 2,034 square feet at 435 E. Main St., Greenwood. The tenant was represented by Yumi Goodman of Colliers International. The landlord, Randy Faulkner & Associates Inc., was represented by Bruce Richardson of My Agent Real Estate Services.
-Insphere Insurance Solutions leased 1,698 square feet of office space at 3500 DePauw Blvd. The landlord, Sterling American Property, was represented by Dave Moore, Bennett Williams and Darrin Boyd of Cassidy Turley. The tenant represented itself.
-RPM Machinery LLC leased 1,413 square feet of office space at 8910 Purdue Road. The tenant was represented by Spud Dick and John Crisp of Cassidy Turley. The landlord, Zeller Realty Group, represented itself.
People
Dr. Safi Shahda has joined Eskenazi Health in the medical oncology outpatient clinic. He received his medical degree from Damascus University, Damascus, Syria.
Dr. Kristin Hoffmann has joined Eskenazi Health in the dermatology clinic. She earned a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Wellesley College and a medical degree from the Yale University School of Medicine.Dr. Rachel Carr, an OBGYN physician, has joined Community Physician Network in Indianapolis. She earned her medical degree at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Dr. Ryan Grimm, a pediatrician, has joined Community Physician Network in Greenwood. He completed his medical degree at the IU School of Medicine.
Looks like both sides are wrong about Medicaid
New research shows that expanding Medicaid won’t save money, in spite of the claims of Obamacare supporters, but it will provide modest help to patients’ health and pocketbooks, in spite of conservative critics’ contention to the contrary.