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Q&A: Jim Parker

Jim Parker was an executive at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and WellPoint for 14 years, including a year and a half as
chief of staff to CEO Angela Braly. He now is president of his own consulting firm, Meridian Strategic Advisors, in Indianapolis.
He spoke about the impact of the new health reform law on health insurers.

Also this week


Phil the Void presents “Evening Banana,” April 16-17, IndyFringe Theatre. Details here.

Indiana University Theatre presents Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music,” April 16-24
at the Ruth N. Halls Theatre, Bloomington. Details here.

Encore Vocal Arts presents “Flight of the Spirit,” featuring the Zionsville Community High School
Chamber Choir and AirKISS aerial dance, April 17 at the Zionsville Performing Arts Center. Details here.

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra joins with student musicians for its annual Side-by-Side Concert, April
21 at Hilbert Circle Theatre. Details here.

The Carmel Arts 7 Design District Gallery Association presents Art in Bloom Gallery Walk, April 17 in downtown
Carmel. Details here.

Butler Ballet presents “Swan Lake,” with music by the Butler Symphony Orchestra, April 16-18
at Clowes Hall. Details here.

The American Pianists Association presents Nobuyuki Tsujii, April 18 at the Indiana History Center. Details
here.

The IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI presents poet and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Edward Hirsch,
April 21 at IUPUI University Library. Details here. 
 

“Peter and the Wolf”

April 18
Hilbert Circle Theatre
The familiar Disney animated short won’t be accompanying the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s presentation of
“Peter and the Wolf.” Instead, this concert makes use of the 2008 Oscar-winning short featuring stop-motion animation,
puppets and digital photography. Don’t worry, the duck, bird and cat are still played by oboe, flute and clarinet. For
a peek at the film, click here. For details on the concert, click here.
 

“A Chorus Line”

April 20-25
Clowes Hall
In 1975, two shows opened on Broadway within weeks of each other. One featured big stars, a scandalous story and a legendary
director. The other featured a no-name cast, no set to speak of, and little by way of plot.
The first did respectable business but struggled at the box office. The second won a Pulitzer and a Tony, and became the
longest running show up to that time in Broadway history.
The first was “Chicago.” The second was “A Chorus Line.”
Both shows have had interesting afterlives. “A Chorus Line” devolved into a train-wreck of a movie. “Chicago,”
meanwhile, sparked an Oscar-winning Best Picture. On the other foot, the 1996 revival of “Chicago” is still running
on Broadway (making it the reigning longest redo ever) while the 2006 “Chorus Line” remount earned back its investment
but didn’t generate much excitement.
While it had many regional productions in between, “A Chorus Line” will be a new experience for many audience
members. Here’s hoping at least some of the original magic remains in this singular sensation. Details here.
 

“Shots in the Dark: Photos by Weegee the Famous”

April 17-Jan. 23
Indianapolis Museum of Art
The term “ambulance chaser” doesn’t seem so bad when it applies to a photographer capable of producing
what Arthur Fellig did.
Better known as Weegee, Fellig turned the underbelly of New York City into a stark, black-and-white world, primarily during
the 1930s and 1940s. His book “Naked City” was the inspiration for the 1948 film “The Naked City”
(which, to no surprise, won an Oscar for Best Cinematography).
This exhibition will feature 48 of his works from among 210 acquired by the IMA in 2008. Included are crime scene shots,
celebrity photos and clandestine photos of movie theater audiences (taken with infrared film). Details here.
 

Company news

Indianapolis-based Strand Analytical Laboratories LLC sold its paternity and immigration DNA testing unit
to Orchid Cellmark Inc., a New Jersey company with annual revenue of $450,000. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Beginning in late June, Eli Lilly and Co. will move all 1,000 employees at its Faris campus on South Meridian
Street in Indianapolis to its Lilly Corporate Center complex on McCarty Street. Lilly’s ongoing staff cuts have reduced
its need for the Faris space, and the Indianapolis company wants to locate its employees on the same campus as part of a new
business structure. The company hired CB Richard Ellis in August to lease the 465,000 square feet on the Faris campus. Lilly
first said in October that it would move all 1,000 employees out of the Faris complex. The campus opened in late 2002.

Purdue University has received $14.9 million in federal stimulus funding from the National Institutes of
Health to expand its Bindley Bioscience Center for cancer and life sciences research in West Lafayette. Purdue expects to
hire 30 to 40 people to conduct federally funded research on animals at the center once the expansion opens in April 2013.
The 29,000-square-foot addition will be called the Multidisciplinary Cancer Research Facility at Purdue. Construction is set
to begin in August. The Bindley Bioscence Center, located on Purdue’s Discovery Park research campus, opened in 2005.
The existing facility is 50,000 square feet.

Neil Gaiman

April 16
North Central High School
If you attended every one of the McFadden Memorial Lectures since 1978, you would have seen a who’s who of contemporary
writers, from Tom Wolfe and Kurt Vonnegut to Eric “A Very Hungry Caterpillar” Carle and Nicholas “Read ’em
and weep” Sparks.
As far as I can tell, though, there hasn’t been a writer of creepy supernatural fiction. Until now.
On Friday, Neil Gaiman, author of “The Graveyard Book” and “Coraline,” will be the featured speaker.
If you don’t have time to catch up on your Gaiman reading before then, put together a quick double feature of the films
of “Coraline” and his fantasy “Stardust.” Of course, seeing the movies isn’t the same as losing
yourself in the books.
Note: There won’t be a book signing at this event. Details here.

 

Correction

The April 7 issue of IBJ Health Care & Reform Weekly incorrectly stated that Clarian Health no longer
plans to have physician investors in the Saxony hospital it is building near Fishers. Clarian is unlikely to have physician
investors in the new hospital, but its officials are still evaluating the impact of a new health care law that forbids physician
ownership of new hospitals.

People

Brett Daniel Lee will join Clarian Health as chief operating officer for Riley Hospital for Children on
April 26. Lee comes to Riley from Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, where he served as vice president of operations
and clinical services.

Bill Thomas has joined Indianapolis-based My Health Care Manager LLC as business development manager. Thomas
held similar roles at Tilson HR Inc. and Professional Staff Management Inc.
 
Kirsten Lewis has joined My Health Care Manager as business development resource manager. Lewis has worked
as a nursing home assistant administrator, as well as a regional sales manager for Post Browning Inc. and a recruitment manager
for On Assignment Healthcare Staffing.

Alejandro Infante has been named president of Batesville-based Hill-Rom Holdings’ international division.
The Mexico native managed international markets for Illinois-based Hospira Inc. and Abbott Laboratories.

Batesville-based Hill-Rom Inc. named Susan R. Lichtenstein chief legal counsel, after hiring her out of
a similar position at Illinois-based Baxter International. Also, Hill-Rom appointed Dr. Phillip Settimi president
of global marketing and chief marketing officer. He was was chief of global marketing for medical devices at Hospira.

Employers want cake, and to eat it, too

Employers are still trying to get their arms around what the new health insurance law will mean for them. But on the eve of
the law's passage last month, a survey by Indianapolis-based United Benefit Advisors LLC showed employers as a group had
no hope the law would reduce their costs but also no coherent plan for reforming the current system.

Study: Ditch reform, add public option

In poll after poll, calls for repealing the new health insurance law get strong support. But if the law were repealed, an
Indiana University survey released this week shows that Americans want a surprising thing in its place: a public option.

Man calls 911 after stabbing ‘friend’

Indianapolis police are investigating a homicide on the northeast side of Indianapolis. Police received a 911 call Tuesday
morning from the suspect, who confessed to stabbing a “friend” several times, said investigators. The unnamed
suspect was cooperative at the scene near 82nd Street and Hague Road as he met officers covered in blood and handed over his
knife.

Stable fire kills 14 horses

A fire killed 14 horses Monday at the Indiana Stallion Station near Chesterfield in Madison County. Investigators still aren't
sure what caused the fire, which killed retired racing thoroughbreds, quarter horses and their weanlings. Some of the horses
had blood lines tracing back to Kentucky Derby winners. Three stable workers and one firefighter were taken to the hospital
for smoke inhalation.