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WellPoint, other health insurers race to join accountable care groups
The health care industry is responding to reforms that will pay doctors bonuses if they provide high-quality care and save
Medicare money.
Indiana life sciences group moves ahead
INpact not-for-profit arranged virtual approach to help startup firm develop device to detect tooth cavities early.
Life sciences panel pegs bright spots in Indiana
Leaders tackle issues ranging from research to cold storage to the future of Eli Lilly and Co.
Roche hit with new breed of patent suit
Roche Diagnostics, a Swiss company that keeps its U.S. headquarters in Indianapolis, has been sued for marking its Accu-Chek
blood glucose monitors and accessories with patents that are expired. Illinois resident David O’Neill has sued on behalf
of the U.S. government to recover damages of $500 per infraction.
Arcadia sees smaller loss, extends WellPoint pact
Indianapolis-based health care firm reaches agreement to offer its DailyMed product to more WellPoint Inc. health plan members.
Indiana universities offer cash incentives for technology transfer
The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute awarded $750,000 to 10 teams of researchers.
State seeks to grow health plan once thought doomed
Indiana is talking to federal officials about expanding its health plan for low-income adults, despite Gov. Mitch Daniels'
statements that the federal health care overhaul would kill it.
Indiana gets $2.3M for electronic health records
Medicaid Director Pat Casanova says the money will be used for necessary state steps to create an incentive program for medical
providers and hospitals to move from paper records to electronic ones.
Court defeat lost in Lilly’s gloomy long-term outlook
Eli Lilly and Co.’s loss of a patent on one of its blockbuster drugs in court late last month received a collective yawn
from
investors, who have shunned the stock because of five looming patent expirations.
CNO Financial profits surge 20 percent, beating expectations
The Carmel-based life and health insurer earned $33.1 million in the three months ended June 30, or 12 cents per diluted share.
Excluding losses on investments and retired debt, the company would have earned 16 cents per share.
Analyst: Arcadia sales poised to take off
Arcadia Resources’ DailyMed business will grow revenue 10-fold in the next three years and push the Indianapolis-based
company into profitability, according to a research report by the first analyst to officially cover the company.
Former commerce chief lands at local company
Nate Feltman, former state secretary of commerce, has left his partnership position at Baker & Daniels LLP to become president
of Home Health Depot LLP, a
growing home-medical-equipment supplier.
Wellness-based development would be first of kind here
Satori Pointe is being marketed as a campus where medical offices, fitness-oriented retailers and residents would co-exist.
Dow Agro boosts sales, profit in second quarter
Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences improved sales and profit in its second quarter thanks to higher volumes and lower costs,
the company said Tuesday morning.
WellPoint, peers focus on health reform rules, campaign
WellPoint Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and three other health insurers, criticized by Democrats during the health care reform
debate, are seeking to influence how the new law will be implemented, and possibly change it, by campaigning for supportive
congressional candidates.
Senator asks Zimmer for info about product complaints
Inquiry stemmed from an article in the New York Times about a dispute between the Warsaw-based maker of artificial hip and knee joints and two of its consultants.
Lilly among bidders for Denmark company, source says
Copenhagen-based health-care company Ascendis Pharma A/S received offers of about $400 million, an unidentified source said.
Ascendis may choose a final bidder by early September.
New law takes American Health Network full circle
Dr. Ben Park joined Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in 1993 to start a large group of primary care physicians who would
institute a concept called managed care. Now American Health Network is
well-positioned to take advantage of the new version of managed care, called accountable care.
Ex-Dow AgroSciences employee accused of stealing trade secrets
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Ke-xue Huang, a native of China’s Hunan province, of stealing trade secrets of
a Dow AgroSciences insecticide and giving them to the People’s Republic of China. Federal agents arrested the former Dow Agro
scientist July 13 in Westboro, Mass.