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Franciscan Alliance, which operates three hospitals in the Indianapolis area, has signed an affiliation agreement with the University of Chicago Medicine that will affect its facilities in northwest Indiana. Both institutions said they plan to work together to develop new models for delivering health care services, such as accountable care organizations. Franciscan, based in Mishawaka, operates 13 hospitals in Indiana and Illinois. The partnership with the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine will involve the Franciscan facilities in Crown Point, Dyer, Hammond, Michigan City and Munster.

Indiana will not allow health insurers to reinstate customers’ policies that were canceled due to new requirements of Obamacare, the state Insurance Department announced Nov. 20, saying that would “create logistical chaos” and “destabilize” Indiana’s individual insurance market. The announcement, which affects an estimated 108,000 Hoosiers who have had their policies canceled, came in response to President Obama’s request Nov. 14 that state insurance commissioners let insurers reinstate policies that they had decided to cancel for 2014. Indiana is the eighth state that has announced it will not allow insurers to reinstate canceled policies. According to the Atlantic Information Services, another five states have said they have allowed insurers to do so. However, some Hoosiers still have the option of renewing their canceled policies for 2014, as long as they do so before Dec. 31. The state's ruling announced on Wednesday would apply to customers whose policies had been canceled, and who waited until 2014 to buy coverage for that year.

The Hoosier Healthcare Innovation Challenge helped launch three young health information technology companies. CreateIT won the entire competition by developing an application for sending educational articles, event alerts and baby updates to the mobile phones of low-income pregnant moms. The goal is to help reduce infant mortality, which has surged to high levels in Indiana. Other companies that received awards during the competition were DeDupIt, which created a way to merge electronic medical records about a patient into a single report; and MedDiary, which created a new system of care that tracks all medications, over the-counter and prescriptions, being taken by a single patient. Each company received cash prizes and free professional services.

Carmel station robbed again

A gas station on the edge of Carmel was robbed for the second time in a month early Monday. Police say a masked man wielding a butcher knife held up the Circle K at 106th Street and College Avenue about 1:30 a.m. He fled on foot with money from the cash register. The same station was robbed Oct. 25 by a masked gunman.

 

Two die in likely murder-suicide

Indianapolis police say a man and a woman who were found shot to death Sunday in a west-side residence likely died in a murder-suicide. The shootings took place about 9 p.m. in the 1000 block of Waldemere Avenue, near West Washington Street and Interstate 465. Names of the victims were withheld.
 

Why insurers want to limit your choice of doctor

In spite of President Obama’s promises that if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, the president’s health reform law is spurring health insurers to make him a liar on that point too.

Man dies in Franklin fire

One man died and another was hospitalized Monday in a Johnson County house fire. The blaze broke out about 4 a.m. in the 100 block of Herriott Street in Franklin. Firefighters found one resident outside the home in serious condition, but the man’s brother-in-law failed to escape the house on his own and was pronounced dead at Johnson Memorial Hospital.
 

Pro hockey returning to coliseum in 2014

The Indiana State Fair Commission announced Monday that it signed a deal with Indiana Hockey Club LLC, an ECHL expansion franchise that will become an anchor tenant for the fairgrounds’ newly renovated coliseum.

State appeals panel to hear IBM lawsuit

Judges on the state Court of Appeals are deciding whether a lower court was right in awarding $52 million to IBM over a failed welfare privatization project.

ITT, Corinthian face consumer bureau probe over lending

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is investigating at least two for-profit colleges, including ITT Educational Services Inc., over potentially abusive practices in marketing and originating student loans.

Economic concerns top lawmakers’ next session

Indiana lawmakers will be dealing with two broad categories of issues when they reconvene next year: Battles they would gladly take on and those they would rather avoid.

Driver dies after pickup hits pole

A man died Thursday after crashing his pickup into a utility pole on the city’s near-southwest side about 9 p.m. Witnesses said the truck was going west on Minnesota Street before spinning several times and sliding into the pole. Emergency workers took about 15 minutes to free the man from the crushed vehicle. He was taken to Wishard Hospital in critical condition but did not survive.

Woman survives crash into building

A woman walked away from an accident Friday after she drove her car through the brick wall of a house that had been converted into a beauty salon in the 6100 block of North Michigan Road about 6 a.m. Police say the woman was driving southbound, when she crossed over to the northbound lanes before driving over the lawn of the salon. Emergency workers say the woman was saved by the car’s airbag.

Officer seriously hurt in collision

An Indianapolis police officer was in serious but stable condition Friday after his squad car was struck by a semi towing a large boat on East Washington Street. Officer Michael Hegg, a 17-year member of the force, was turning left at a light into Cherry Tree Plaza about 7:15 a.m. when the oncoming truck ran through a red light and hit the front passenger side of his car. The truck driver, from Michigan, was not injured.

Indianapolis mounting push to privatize parks

IndyParks is looking for private operators interested in opening new attractions on city-owned land, improving existing offerings, and taking over daily operations of parks facilities. New offerings could get rolling in 2014.