Colts seal Farm Bureau sponsorship pact
The Indianapolis Colts have become one of the first National Football League teams to sell a corporate sponsorship patch
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Hilbert in-law’s life insurance dispute takes odd turn
Local businessman J.B. Carlson contends the $15 million life insurance policy he took out on Stephen Hilbert’s mother-in-law
was legitimate, because she served on his firm’s board and was a key decision-maker. The mother-in-law, Germaine
“Suzy” Tomlinson, died at age 74 last September—just 32 months after the policy was issued.
Lilly asks FDA to review weekly diabetes drug
Drugmakers Eli Lilly and Co., Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Alkermes Inc. said yesterday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
has accepted their application for the once-a-week diabetes drug exenatide.
Indianapolis benefits firms merge
Two Indianapolis benefits consulting firms have finalized their merger, the companies announced this morning. Terms of the
deal between Benefit Associates Inc. and Benefit Consultants Inc., in the works since March, were not disclosed.
Lilly cancer drug OK’d for new use
Eli Lilly and Co.’s top rising-star drug has been approved by U.S. regulators for a new use, an event that could boost sales of
the medication. Alimta, a lung cancer drug, was approved as a maintenance therapy for non-small cell lung cancer
for certain patients, Lilly announced today.
A.J. Gallagher & Co. strikes again, hires two more benefits brokers
National acquisition-and-merger rage among benefits firms continues as Gallagher swallows groups in Noblesville and Louisville.
Gallagher’s Carmel office grows its client portfolio to 300.
EDITORIAL: Health reform’s time has come
Lawmakers must take action but also ensure that any plan incorporates four basic principles.
Profs trying to revolutionize drug discovery process
Two chemistry professors at IUPUI are laboring to create the McDonald’s of research laboratories—a model that’s low-cost
and can spread around the world.
Planned Parenthood promotes health services for men
Planned Parenthood of Indiana has launched a campaign to capitalize on the small but growing number of men who use its 34
health centers around the state.
Government-run insurance plan draws mixed reviews from employers
Businesses all want to see reform of the health care system, but they diverge on how much the U.S. government’s entrance into
the insurance market would help or hurt them.
Report says Indiana health care is over-specialized
Hoosiers see too many specialty physicians and are driving up health care costs as they do, according to a recent study by the Indiana University Center for Health Policy.
Insurers not attracting young people
Two-thirds of college-age Americans say health insurance is as important as salary when looking at jobs. Yet just as many have made no plans to obtain health insurance once they graduate from school this month.
Lilly, Simon receive top philanthropic awards
Two global companies based in Indianapolis have been recognized for their philanthropic efforts.
Binford medical complex takes another punch
The anchor tenant in the Binford Medical-Professional Office Complex at the corner of 65th Street and Binford Boulevard has closed temporarily, citing a lack of other tenants in the high-profile medical building. The shut-down is the latest in a string of setbacks for what was to have been a five-building, $29 million development. The Binford […]
Wishard squeezes in more patients
Occupancy at Wishard Hospital was 98 percent before the recession and is still that high, and more people have been coming as inpatients and as mental health patients, forcing the hospital to come up with creative ways to handle the load.
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful and Lilly team up on I-70 landscaping project
Some of Indianapolis’ main entrances from Interstate 70 are in line for a $2 million makeover.
Clarian and IU Med School hiring 1,500 docs for massive Indiana Clinic; strategy may cut out insurers
Clarian Health and the Indiana University School of Medicine want to turn 1,500 or more doctors into employees under a new nonprofit group called the Indiana Clinic.
‘Epic’ investment losses hit hospitals
Financial reports trickling in from Indianapolis’ major hospitals show why the city’s health care building boom ground to
a near halt this year. It ran into a wall of investment losses.
Prices salty and getting saltier at Indiana nursing homes
The cost of nursing home care in Indianapolis is rising faster than in the rest of the country, according to an annual survey
of long-term-care costs by Virginia-based Genworth Financial.
Reimbursement changes prompt specialists to join hospital payrolls
Specialist physicians, who have traditionally been fiercely independent, are more and more coming on as employees of hospitals.