David Hartley pulled $85,000 from his savings six years ago to buy Home Health Depot Inc. Nearly six years later, Hartley
has reinvented the Indianapolis-based home medical equipment supplier, growing from a single office in Greenwood to 12 locations
in Indiana and Illinois—and increasing annual revenue from $300,000 to more than $6.7 million.
The program currently includes 1,200 physicians—about 10 percent of all doctors in Indiana.
Hospitals continued to be a stable and slightly growing source of jobs and wages in Indiana—for better and for worse.
The sector paid $7.3 billion to 127,000 Hoosiers in 2008, according to the latest data from the American Hospital Association.
New U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules force precautions on paint chips, dust.
A deal in which St. Vincent Health would buy or lease Bedford’s Dunn Memorial Hospital is in the final stages, according
to the Times-Mail of Bedford. The hospital board held two hours of closed-door talks on May 26, and one board member
predicted a decision within days.
AgeneBio Inc. this month landed a $300,000 investment from the Indiana Seed Fund to fund operations, bolster its intellectual
property, and begin learning how to make a drug into a once-a-day pill.
In the past few years, a handful of cold storage facilities have sprouted locally by playing to Indianapolis' strengths
in warehousing and life sciences.
In the company's latest response to withering criticism of its breast-cancer policies, WellPoint Inc. said it will pay
for any breast cancer patient to stay two days in a hospital after surgery.
Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie and Bloomington Hospital were among nine U.S. hospitals that had been charged with submitting
false claims to the Medicare program.
As physician mergers increase in Indianapolis, a new study has determined that quality at large, multispecialty practices is at
least 5 percent higher and costs are 3.6 percent lower than at small group practices.
Groundbreaking will be held May 16 to mark start of construction on center to be built on 300-acre campus.
Clarian will become Indiana University Health early next year in a bet the IU brand carries more punch statewide and nationally.
Any bounce could be temporary, an expert cautions.
Companion Diagnostics wants to detect early warning signs of chronic diseases.
Clarian Health officials on Thursday plan to buy four helicopters as it replaces aircraft in its aging patient-transport
fleet.
One recent study showed that medical
costs fall more than $3 for every $1 spent on wellness programs. But something doesn’t add up.
Insurers like WellPoint Inc. should be required to get U.S. approval to increase premiums, Sens. Diane Feinstein and Tom Harkin
say.
Eighteen states, including Indiana, argue the federal government cannot force citizens to buy health insurance coverage.
Stimulus dollars from the National Institutes of Health expected to spark 30 to 40 new research jobs by 2013.
Bloomington is struggling to keep its edge, a report says. And Bill Cook isn’t happy about it.
