Franklin College launches $85 million building campaign
Small liberal arts school in Johnson County plans to modernize and expand athletic facilities, classrooms and residence space.
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Shareholder group wants WellPoint to become not-for-profit
Proposal at annual meeting will ask health insurer to study feasibility of converting to not-for-profit status.
Red Key’s rules will live on after owner’s death
Russel Settle, 92, was renowned for telling customers at the landmark Red Key Tavern to mind their manners in the northside
pub featured in a Dan Wakefield novel.
Interactive Intelligence taps college to connect with BlackBerry
Shortly after Interactive Intelligence Inc. decided two years ago to push beyond its roots in call centers and pitch its
communications software to more insurance agents and money managers, the company ran up against a tricky hurdle: the BlackBerry.
Butler mulling makeover for Hinkle Fieldhouse
Butler University is planning to raise as much as $12 million to modernize Hinkle Fieldhouse, the home of its Bulldogs basketball
team.
State names second virtual charter school
Rural Community Academy, in Sullivan, south of Terre Haute, can enroll as many as 280 students in the 2010-11 academic year. Those students would do most of their work from home, accessing lectures and school materials via the Internet.
Conseco cuts 20 jobs at Carmel headquarters
Conseco Inc. moved some of its customer-service work to India, prompting the local job reductions.
Daniels one of health law’s loudest critics
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is fast becoming critic-in-chief of the health reform law.
WellPoint faces biggest changes under new law
The Indianapolis-based health insurer has more individual and small-business customers than its major competitors, increasing
the impact of health reform.
Lilly to let 115 workers go in new outsourcing deal
Deal with unit of Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher Scientific would keep many of the employees working in same
location.
Employers fret over health care overhaul
Most employers in central Indiana are just beginning to figure out what the health insurance reform bill will mean for their
businesses. Caterpillar Inc., which employs nearly 1,500 at an engine plant in Lafayette, expects costs to rise about 20 percent.
CEO: Conseco’s name no longer says insurance
Conseco Inc. CEO Jim Prieur says it’s time to change the company’s 27-year-old name partly because it’s become better associated
with a sports facility than with the insurer’s products.
IU study: Money matters to docs
Think doctors and hospitals aren’t influenced by money? Think again. Patients seen at private facilities reimbursed
by Medicare were 5.5 times more likely to receive routine cataract surgery than patients at poorly funded Veterans Affairs
facilities.
Docs fear reform will exacerbate ER overuse
One of the most agreed-upon reasons for health care reform was the expensive overuse of the emergency room by uninsured patients.
But two Hoosier ER docs—one conservative, one liberal—say the implementation of ObamaCare will leave that fundamental
problem unresolved.
Bill kicks off years of change for local health care players
Sweeping changes phase in slowly for most, but insurers, hospitals, drug companies, employers, workers, medical device makers
and more will eventually feel impact.
Wishard debt $80M below ‘best’ scenario
Historically low bond rates will help the parent corporation of Wishard Health Services build hospital for less money
than expected.
Indiana health groups dial back lobbying
Indiana health-related companies were somewhat absent from the lobbying bonanza that gripped Washington, D.C., in 2009. For
all the heat and light about health reform, major Indiana companies actually spent slightly less to lobby Congress.
St. Francis acquires orthopedic surgery practice
St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers has acquired Joint Replacement Surgeons of Indiana, a six-doctor practice that
operates in St. Francis' Mooresville hospital.
FDA says ‘not yet’ on Lilly’s once-weekly Byetta
Regulators won’t require more time-consuming tests of the drug, but want Eli Lilly and Co. and its partners to clarify labeling,
manufacturing
processes.
Health care software firm raises $1.15 million
Indianapolis-based PolicyStat LLC raised $1.15 million in angel capital from 31 individuals and Halo Capital Group.