The former doctor, who ran offices in Peru, Bloomington and Indianapolis, was sentenced to more than 10 years of probation but no time behind bars under a plea agreement with prosecutors. Fifty of the 55 charges against him were dropped.
Hendricks Regional Health’s new Brownsburg hospital is only the latest in Indiana’s second-fastest-growing county, where almost non-stop development is pushing demand for health care.
A deal between Hartford, Connecticut-based Aetna and Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based CVS could upend the health insurance, pharmacy and drug benefit sectors.
In Indiana, Alex Azar was an influential member of a public airport board, tasked with oversight of human resources matters, when he defended the conduct of the airport CEO who was under fire for spending public money on travel, golf fees, steak dinners and Super Bowl tickets.
A recently unsealed suit accuses the Indianapolis-based drugmaker of offering free nursing services to doctors to induce them to prescribe the company’s products.
Express Scripts Holding’s stock has been in decline since its biggest client, Indianapolis-based insurer Anthem Inc., said it would end its relationship with the pharmacy benefit manager.
The Food and Drug Administration wants to help patients get faster access to promising cancer treatments, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told House lawmakers Thursday.
As Alex Azar faces his first nomination hearing, even some critics see signs he could shift the health care debate away from partisan confrontation.
The settlement ends a two-year quarrel over whether IU Health violated antitrust laws when its ambulances transported most of the county’s 911-response patients to its own hospital.
Medical-device maker Cook Group expects to start work in December on an expansion project as it takes over a former General Electric refrigerator factory in Bloomington.
IU Health declined to name the employee or specify whether the job separation was a resignation or firing.
Pharmaceutical companies have introduced medicines to treat dependence, reverse overdoses and deal with opioid side effects. But few effective and economically viable alternatives to addictive painkillers have emerged from the laboratory.
Ed Bonach became active in the community partly to send a message to the company’s beaten-down workforce that “you don’t have to hang your head about being part of this company. We are doing a lot of good things, and we will be doing more of them.”
Caprice Bearden, 63, of Carmel pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and nine misdemeanor counts related to the sale of adulterated drugs, including painkillers that were used on hospitalized infants.
Joshua Burkhart is the second defendant to admit guilt in what prosecutors allege was a $16 million fraud orchestrated by leaders of the state's biggest nursing home company.
Officials in Indiana’s neighbor to the east say they’ve received plenty of interest from companies interested in operating the 60 dispensaries that will sell medical marijuana.
The Indiana Chamber of Commerce wants lawmakers to raise the state’s legal age for buying cigarettes from 18 to 21 and also is calling for a repeal of a state law that prohibits businesses from refusing to hire tobacco users.
As a top pharma industry veteran from 2007 to 2017, former Eli Lilly and Co. executive Alex Azar built a substantial financial portfolio now worth as much as $20.6 million.
Experts say wider availability of no-premium plans is the unintended consequence of Trump administration actions to undermine the Affordable Care Act.
Mainstreet Health Investments Inc., a company founded by Carmel-based Mainstreet Property Group, has reached a deal to acquire Care Investment Trust LLC, which owns 42 senior housing and care properties.
