The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association will form a combined provider network with London-based Bupa that will collectively include more than 11,500 hospitals in more than 190 countries, the partners said Thursday.
Two of the largest U.S. health insurers are giving Obamacare customers more time to pay their initial premiums as the industry tries to coax millions of people to take the final step in cementing coverage for 2014.
Financial terms of the sale to Boston-based private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners LP weren’t disclosed. WellPoint paid a reported $900 million to buy the company in June 2012.
In a warning shot to investors, the pharmaceutical giant says it expects “2014 to be the most financially challenging year of Lilly’s current period of patent expirations.”
All four of the National Football League’s wild-card playoff games will be televised in their host team’s local market after corporate support helped ensure sellouts.
The deadline to enroll in plans that begin Jan. 1 now is midnight Tuesday for most of the U.S. On Monday, healthcare.gov fielded nearly 50,000 simultaneous visitors, triggering a queuing system.
On-time statistics for such carriers as United, American and Delta don’t include tardy flights by their regional partners, such as Indianapolis-based Republic Airways.
Cummins Inc., the Indiana-based maker of truck engines, has sued three named and 10 unnamed defendants for trademark infringement. The company claims the defendants are making and selling T-shirts bearing its trademarks without permission.
Eli Lilly and Co., Pfizer Inc., Sanofi and other large drugmakers will keep paying doctors to give talks about their products, leaving GlaxoSmithKline Plc alone for now in its decision to halt such compensation.
Ten lawsuits accusing the National Collegiate Athletic Association of concealing the long-term risks of concussions sustained in student sports must be litigated in Chicago, not Indianapolis, a federal judges’ panel ruled.
Consumers who enroll in health plans through the new U.S. exchanges will get 10 extra days to pay their first premiums and still gain coverage effective Jan. 1, an insurance company trade group said Wednesday.
The Carmel-based power grid operator is expanding its footprint from Manitoba and the U.S. Midwest to the Louisiana coast.
Fifteen years after Pfizer Inc.’s Viagra changed the sexual equation for older men, the blockbuster impotence drug is set to become available in a less expensive generic form as early as 2017.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it has invalidated renewable fuel credits sold by an Indiana company for biofuel it didn’t produce. The filing Wednesday follows fraud charges filed against the former owners of the Middletown-based E-Biofuels LLC in September.
The inconsistent measures that companies use to disclose CEO pay is the newest battleground in executive compensation. As the SEC works on a rule to require pay-for-performance reports, it also plans to end the wide latitude enjoyed by firms when they compute the numbers.
The Madison Park Church of God in Anderson has a green light to exit bankruptcy under a Chapter 11 plan approved by an Indianapolis judge late last week.
Carrefour SA joined a group of institutional investors to buy 127 European shopping malls in a $2.75 billion deal with Klepierre SA, which is 29-percent owned by Simon Property Group.
Since 1998, there have been more than 100 attempts to develop an Alzheimer’s treatment, and all have failed. Such a product may generate as much as $5 billion annually for Merck, according to analysts
General Motors Co. named Mary Barra to succeed Dan Akerson as chief executive officer, making her the first female CEO in the global automotive industry. Former Cummins Inc. CEO and chairman Tim Solso was named GM's chairman.
Tornadoes and thunderstorms that swept across the U.S. Midwest last month will probably cost more than $1 billion in economic losses, led by damage in Illinois and Indiana, according to insurance broker Aon Plc.
