A survey found cigarette smoking rose slightly on a national basis for the first time in almost 15 years and that Indiana
had the second highest smoking rate among states.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana is doling out $3.1 million to Indianapolis-area doctors—its first payments
based on a local quality measuring system.
Thanks partly to a state grant and support from Indiana’s BioCrossroads life sciences initiative, principals “decided
locating here would give Aarden a better chance of success.
The $7.8 million medical office building in McCordsville will allow the hospital to tap patients with private insurance.
The Batesville-based maker of hospital equipment reported profit of $26.4 million, or 42 cents per share, in the period ended
Sept. 30.
Previous gifts from the foundation to the cancer center have been used to hire 10 researchers working on breast cancer.
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to pay Utah $24 million to settle a lawsuit claiming the company improperly marketed the antipsychotic
drug Zyprexa.
The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration announced Tuesday that $34 million in new budget cuts includes a 5-percent
cut in Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals.
Drugmaker and health insurer bemoan aspects of House health reform bill and hope Senate crafts more industry-friendly bill.
Two weeks after reaching a stalemate on a proposal that would broaden the city’s workplace smoking ban, City-Council
Council members voted Monday night to resurrect the measure.
Indianapolis-based Arcadia Resources Inc. has added former Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith to its board and plans to raise
$11.1 million in a registered direct stock offering.
A government health insurance plan included in the House health care reform bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate.
In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation
Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin a long-delayed debate
on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress.
California-based life science firm Beckman Coulter Inc. is moving its precision plastics injection molding operation
to the Park 100 business park on Indianapolis’ northwest side, making what it calls a multimillion-dollar investment in the
operation.
The most obvious use for the old Wishard site is an expansion of the Indiana University School of Medicine, particularly for
medical research space, university administrators said.
At this point in the health reform debate, you have to take numbers from any side with a grain of salt. That said, Indianapolis-based
WellPoint Inc. has done perhaps the only local analysis of how proposed reforms would affect the cost of health insurance
for employers.
Shareholders are starting to make inroads in their effort to turn struggling West Lafayette-based Bioanalytical Systems Inc. in a new direction.
In letter to Indiana congressmen, the governor says the reform bill would kill jobs with ‘enormous’ new taxes.
When Sisters of St. Francis Health Services Inc. bought Tonn and Blank Construction Co. in 1998, more
than one employee of the Michigan City firm wondered what it would be like to be run by a Roman Catholic
order that not only owned a string of Midwestern hospitals but also traced its spiritual heritage to
a 12th century mystic.
The Carmel-based life insurer’s third-quarter results exceeded Wall Street analysts’ predictions.
