The decision last year by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services not to exclude health insurance brokers commissions from a provision in the 2010 health reform law has been “devastating to brokers,” broker advocate Janet Trautwein said during an August speech in Fishers, and there are signs that Congress will act to reverse the policy.
Every business sector has influential players, whether they are in the public eye or wield their influence behind the scenes. This month, IBJ zeroes in on Health Care and Benefits.
As the season begins, we can’t help but think about where it will end—Lucas Oil Stadium—and who might be playing in the Super Bowl.
Both candidates for Indianapolis mayor are touting a host of ways to improve the city’s business climate. Incumbent Greg Ballard champions improving the city’s amenities. Challenger Melina Kennedy focuses on recruiting entrepreneurs to the city.
Frank and Katrina Basile only scratched the surface of the interesting sights available for us every day in Indianapolis. Like Dorothy said, “There’s no place like home.”
Democrat Andre Carson of Indianapolis, a black congressman, used a lynching metaphor to describe tea party policies he says would turn minorities into “second class citizens.”
From Earth Wind and Fire to Ernest Shackleton and from Mike Birbiglia to Martin Sheen, this promises to be a season to remember.
A sudden change in leadership at the Palladium, a new maestro for the ISO, and the impact of a big football game promise to have the Indy arts scene buzzing.
Introducing a subjective short-list of Indy’s clutch-hitting actors, all of whom have created magic in the past and will be seen on local stages this season. (with videos)
Eli Lilly and Co. and its partner Germany-based Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH have won European market approval for linagliptin, a diabetes drug approved in the United States in May. The oral tablets will go by the name Trajenta in Europe, a slight alteration from the drug's U.S. trade name of Tradjenta. The drug helps patients with Type 2 diabetes reduce their blood sugar. The European Commission approved it for use on its own or with the standard diabetes pill metformin.
Indianapolis-based AMD Lasers LLC was acquired in June by Pennsylvania-based Dentsply International. AMD, founded in 2008 by Alan Miller, provides desktop laser technology to dentists at lower prices. It introduced its first product, called Picasso, in 2009.
Indiana University Health last week opened a kidney transplant telemedicine outreach clinic in Gary, one of seven it has around the state. The outreach clinic uses videoconferencing to conduct follow-up consultations with patients who have had a kidney transplant—so they don't have to travel to Indianapolis to see IU Health’s transplant surgeons face-to-face. The clinic is at Indiana University Northwest. IU Health’s other transplant outreach clinics, all established in the past three years, are in Avon, Carmel, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Merrillville and South Bend.
With hospitals having scooped up hundreds of physicians in the past three years—putting nearly all of them under non-compete agreements—there are bound to be legal tussles when some of those physicians decide their new matches aren’t exactly made in heaven.
Sunny, mild weather could provide a 15-percent increase to the economic impact of this weekend's MotoGP events. Motorsports business experts said the city could see a $30 million impact.
Indianapolis might find out soon what life would be like without the Indiana Pacers and it won’t be good, say downtown business owners, government officials, marketing experts and sports economists.
Katrina and I have made more trips (10) to Mexico and traveled to more cities and towns there (35) than we have to any other foreign country in the last 12 years.
If college football is the product of a corrupt system, why is it so incredibly popular?
Downtown Indianapolis Streetcar Corp. said a circulator route between downtown and the Indianapolis Zoo in White River State Park might cost $20 million to $25 million to build and equip.
Ball State University leaders hope the school’s $87 million geothermal plant paves the way for others like it—as an economic-development opportunity as much as an environmental effort.
After months of skirting speculation, Danica Patrick announced Thursday that she's leaving IndyCar in 2012 to run a full Nationwide schedule. She didn't rule out a return to open-wheel racing for the Indianapolis 500.
Marian disclosed Evans’ 2010 donation Wednesday as it held a groundbreaking ceremony for its medical and nursing school building, which will be called the Michael A. Evans Center for Health Sciences.
Why not look at the entire neighborhood instead of just this old site?
