Underrated entrepreneurs
The Indianapolis area is home to myriad unsung entrepreneurs who run interesting companies, make money and create good jobs.
Here are some of them.
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WellPoint: More employers involved in provider talks
Employer activism is on the rise when it comes to keeping hospitals honest in their negotiations with health insurers.
Executives at Indianapolis-based WellPoint say more employers are airing their displeasure when hospital
systems ask for double-digit reimbursement increases.
Baldwin & Lyons swings to a fourth-quarter profit
Indianapolis-based trucking fleet insurer benefits from investment gains after large losses the previous year.
Hill-Rom profit up 40 percent
Batesville maker of hospital equipment meets analysts’ expectations, then raises full-year profit forecast.
Health firms still attracting venture capital
The uncertainty of health care reform and a bad economy curtailed venture capital flow in 2009. That trend hit Indianapolis,
but the rest of the state actually saw an increase.
Clarian eyes vacant Levitz space for office, warehouse use
Clarian Health Partners is considering converting a long-vacant, 180,000-square-foot Levitz furniture store on East Washington
Street into a center for home-health and pharmacy services.
Enzon Pharmaceuticals sells Indy drug plant; 100 local jobs safe
New Jersey-based Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc. has sold its Indianapolis plant that manufactures specialty drugs in a deal that
could top $300 million. The buyer says that the operations, which employ about 100, will remain in the city.
St. Vincent to buy Care Group, city’s largest cardiology practice
St. Vincent Health is near an agreement to take over The Care Group LLC, the city’s largest independent physician practice
and largest cardiology group in the nation.
Health care reform will go on regardless of federal government
Massachusetts’ election of a Republican senator has put health reform legislation on life support. But for the health
care industry, reform is a reality that isn’t going to die.
Federal rule tied to electronic medical records panned
The government has erected a high fence around a pot of $27 billion available to doctors and hospitals that successfully
computerize their patient records by next year, sparking complaints.
Bioanalytical Systems’ CEO announces retirement
Struggling West Lafayette life science contract research firm will search nationally for a new permanent leader.
Lilly shares trade down after fourth-quarter profits falls
Analysts worry about dive in already paltry sales of new blood thinner Effient
Accounting charge dents Zimmer’s fourth-quarter profits
But excluding special charges, Warsaw-based orthopedic implant maker grows profits 5 percent, easily beating expectations
of Wall
Street.
Express Scripts to add 182 pharmacy jobs by 2012
Drug distribution firm that acquired former WellPoint subsidiary plans to consolidate specialty pharmacy work at local
airport facility.
Concluding the worst is over, investors warm to WellPoint
Analysts say losses of employer-sponsored insurance customers due to layoffs is finally slowing down.
Lilly shares get boost from OK of rival’s drug
Shares of Lilly and partner Amylin rose on hopes that their new version of Byetta will be approved following U.S. regulators’
clearance of a similar drug.
Senate bill would snuff out Indiana’s smoking-cessation agency
Anti-tobacco advocates worry cost-cutting move could seriously diminish state’s efforts to curb Hoosier tobacco use.
Indianapolis hospitals extending reach statewide
St. Vincent Health’s agreement to lease the county hospital in Salem for five years is the latest in a string of deals
by Indianapolis hospital systems seeking a statewide presence.
Indiana GOP wants to block federal health reform mandates
Republicans in the Legislature have joined their counterparts in 25 other states in trying to prevent key aspects of reform
from taking effect in Indiana.
Medical imaging supplier moves to Indianapolis
Associated X-Ray Services relocates headquarters from South Bend to Indianapolis and also announces the company has changed
its name to AXS Imaging.