Feds finally end probe into Lilly bribery allegations
The U.S. Department of Justice told Lilly last month its investigation was over—more than a year after the drugmaker paid $29 million to the SEC to settle related bribery allegations.
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Feds award indiana $11.8M for home visits program
The funds will support home visits by nurses and others to check on low-income pregnant women and those with young children.
Former St. Francis Beech Grove hospital attracts suitors
Franciscan St. Francis Health has finally found a buyer for its former hospital campus in Beech Grove. Trouble is, it’s found two.
Six central Indiana dental employees reach plea deals
Prosecutors have struck plea agreements with six former employees of an Anderson dental clinic in connection with a Medicaid fraud investigation.
House plan gives Evansville IU med school $36 million
A spending plan released Monday by Indiana House Republicans includes nearly twice as much money as Gov. Mike Pence proposed for a medical school campus in downtown Evansville.
Lawmakers aim to restrict access to meth ingredients
The leaders of Indiana communities hit hard by methamphetamine are arguing for a state law requiring prescriptions to buy cold and allergy pills.
Former Lilly partner ordered to pay $2.3M to Actos user
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. was ordered by a jury Thursday to pay more than $2.3 million in damages to a former teacher who blamed the company’s Actos diabetes drug for causing his bladder cancer.
How Eli Lilly CEO Lechleiter pulled company out of long slide
After weathering a barrage of patent expirations, the pharmaceutical giant has restocked its pipeline and is positioned to grow.
Massage therapy legislation passed by Indiana House
House Bill 1360, authored by Rep. Sue Errington, D-Muncie, applies the standards of practice of health professions to certified massage therapists.
Not-for-profit developer BHI gears up to house flood of baby boomers
BHI Senior Living, an Indianapolis not-for-profit that’s spent more than half a century serving retirees, could be poised to go from incremental to exponential growth—all thanks to the aging of the baby boom generation.
Cuban immigrant gets 6 years for theft of Lilly drugs
A Cuban immigrant was sentenced Wednesday to more than six years in prison for his role in the 2010 heist of a Connecticut warehouse in which the robbers filled a tractor-trailer with more than $50 million worth of Eli Lilly and Co. pharmaceuticals.
Physical therapy provider fans out
Tx:Team has always run its business by sending its therapists to wherever patients are—rather than wooing them into its own facilities. Now, financial pressures from Obamacare and cash-strapped employers are pushing all health care providers to do the same.
Medical-marijuana bill won’t fly this session, but attitudes shift
Indiana won’t put itself on the marijuana-friendly map this year, as a medical marijuana bill authored by Democratic Sen. Karen Tallian is unlikely to go further than a committee hearing.
2015 Forty Under 40: Daniel Vreeman
Daniel Vreeman, 36, directs development universal language for medical information as an associate research professor at the IU School of Medicine.
2015 Forty Under 40: Donetta Gee-Weiler
Donetta Gee-Weiler, 36, a former labor and deliver nurse, fills the key role of vice president of women’s & children’s services at Community Health Network.
2015 Forty Under 40: Adlai Chester
Adlai Chester, 34, chief financial officer of Mainstreet, juggles finances for more than $1 billion in post-acute health care properties.
2015 Forty Under 40: Dr. Gaurav Arora
Dr. Gaurav Arora, 39, is chief medical officer for Indiana University Health Saxony Hospital in Fishers.
IU Health to cut 96 workers in Martinsville
In a cost-cutting move, Indiana University Health plans to lay off nearly 100 workers as Morgan Hospital stops admitting overnight patients April 1.
Novartis expects price war with Lilly over psoriasis drugs
Novartis AG is racing to establish itself in the market for new treatments for psoriasis ahead of competing drugs by Amgen Inc. and Eli Lilly and Co. in the United States.
Democrats, hospital group cheer Healthy Indiana Plan ruling
The top Democrat in the Indiana Senate is applauding the federal approval of Gov. Mike Pence's proposal for expansion of the Healthy Indiana Plan.