Tensions spawn exodus of IU eye doctors
Since 2008, the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology has seen nine physicians depart—nearly half its clinicians who care for adult patients.
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Diabetes drug metformin show promise in cancer
Researchers at Purdue University, the Indiana University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin discovered a combination of two currently available drugs significantly slowed the growth of late-stage prostate cancer tumors in mice.
Verve Health aims to triple workforce with new approach
Verve Health, an Indianapolis-based company that provides wellness and health clinics to employers, is pitching a new option—integrative medicine. If plans are successful, it could add more than 100 workers in the next year.
Volunteer doctors, nurses get civil immunity under new law
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill into law on Tuesday that gives civil immunity to volunteer health care providers.
State offers employment help to HIP 2.0 members
Members of state’s health insurance plan for low-income Hoosiers will now have more access to career development resources.
Health care referral service plans to hire 180 by 2019
Indianapolis-based HealthPro suggests health care providers to patients based on the providers’ prices, proximity and availability.
$1B Methodist plan could spur neighborhood rebirth
The area surrounding Methodist Hospital at Capitol Avenue and West 16th Street could be ripe for much-needed redevelopment following Indiana University Health’s announcement that it will spend $1 billion to expand the campus.
Hendricks Regional to make $40M bet with Brownsburg ER, outpatient center
Hendricks Regional Health will construct a 100,000-square-foot emergency room and outpatient center on the north side of Brownsburg by early 2017, hoping to capitalize on an underserved part of the state’s second-fastest-growing county.
CNO Financial reports profitable first quarter
CNO Financial Group Inc. saw a decline in revenue, but rebounded from a year-ago loss in the first quarter.
Anthem’s first-quarter profit surges past Wall Street’s predictions
Anthem exceeded Wall Street’s profit expectations by 47 cents per share and raised its full-year profit forecast by 20 cents per share.
Former Lilly partner set to pay $2.3B to settle Actos cases
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. executives have agreed to pay more than $2.3 billion to resolve lawsuits accusing the company of hiding its Actos diabetes medicine’s cancer risks, three people familiar with the accord said.
Health Department report: Nurse staffing was short at IU Health Methodist
A Health Department audit found nurse staffing routinely short on two patient units at IU Health’s Methodist hospital, where nurses are trying to organize a union.
Efficiency, slide in patients drive IU Health’s $1B consolidation
The hospital system announced Friday that it would close its University hospital in downtown Indianapolis after expanding the nearby Methodist and Riley campuses.
IU Health to close University hospital, expand Riley, Methodist
Indiana University Health announced Friday that the $1 billion project consolidating its downtown hospitals will take five to seven years to complete, during which time University Hospital will remain open to patients just as it is now.
Life sciences panel: Indiana making headway but needs more capital
The state has enjoyed success funding and building life sciences companies, and the new Indiana Biosciences Research Institute should give it a further boost, according to panelists Friday at IBJ's Life Sciences Power Breakfast.
Radiologists follow FedEx with flat-rate prices. Is this the future of health care?
To satisfy patients with high-deductible health plans, Northwest Radiology has introduced flat-rate pricing for its imaging scans. It’s a centuries-old concept among postal services, but for health care, it’s revolutionary.
Princeton loses appeal in case sparked by Lilly drug loyalties
Four residents of the town of Princeton sued to revoke the university’s tax exemption, in part because it shares royalties with faculty, mostly from a patent that Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. turned into the cancer drug Alimta.
Anthem cancels public events about data breach at Ball State
Representatives from Indianapolis-base health insurer Anthem Inc. have canceled plans to speak publicly this week at Ball State University, where some employees have had their identities stolen.
Did Congress just kick off another wave of doc mergers?
Things got quiet after a wave of hospital systems' acquiring physician practices swept through central Indiana from 2008 to 2011. But a new wave could start now that Congress passed the "doc fix" last week.
Pence signs bill expanding use of overdose drug
The new law allows Indiana residents to obtain and use a drug that can reverse heroin overdoses in their relatives, friends and loved ones.