John Russell

Scott B. Tittle, a former health care policy adviser to former Gov. Mitch Daniels and nursing home trade association leader, will take the helm of the nonprofit professional trade group on Nov. 25.

The Indianapolis-based health insurance giant said Thursday that its Medicaid enrollment tumbled 19% from 11 million people in last year’s third quarter.

The Indianapolis-based hospital system wants to add 34,645 square feet to its MD Anderson Cancer Center at 7979 Shadeland Ave., on the Community Hospital North campus.

The gift will fund operations at Gregory S. Fehribach Center at Eskenazi Health for the next five years and also create an endowment for future funding.

Stephen Boehm has spent decades studying addictions and binge drinking, and was longtime professor and chair of the Indiana University Indy psychology department.

It was a mating dance that lasted more than three years. At the end, Eli Lilly and Co. wound up buying a Massachusetts-based biotech developing treatments for inflammatory bowel disease for $3.2 billion.

Just three years ago, Indianapolis-based Innovation Associates had huge hopes for growth here. But instead of growing, the company is now shrinking. Last week, the company quietly laid off 11 people in the Indy office and 60 people in other markets.

The expansion plan includes construction of a 100,000-square-foot building on its corporate campus and the addition of 100 jobs.

The company had debt of $5.7 billion as of March 31 and has been under pressure from Wall Street to reduce it.

Community Health Network’s announcement this month that it plans to open a $335 million campus near U.S. 31 and 196th Street in Westfield marks the latest entry into the crowded Hamilton County hospital market.

Starting July 1, any health care entity or private equity firm that is planning a merger or acquisition in Indiana—where the assets of at least one of the parties is $10 million or more—must notify the state attorney general at least 90 days in advance.

Longtime business partners Robert Laikin and Larry Paulson, who made their fortunes in the cellphone industry, are turning their sights to manufacturing high-density batteries for industrial uses.

The 425,000-square-foot project will mark the Indianapolis-based health care system’s first hospital in Hamilton County.

James Lin, a biomedical researcher who has focused on new innovations for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, will start his new job in Indianapolis on Aug. 26.

Lilly plans to outfit its Lebanon plants—now under construction—with the latest in robotic, digital manufacturing equipment that will do much of the work that a generation ago was done by humans.

The company said the site footprint will not expand, but the company will fill in the property with more buildings and equipment. Manufacturing capacity will almost triple there.

The roster of radiopharmaceuticals players in the Indianapolis area has surged in the past few years to include some of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, attracted by the potential for significant growth.

Indianapolis-based NICO recently wrapped up a large clinical trial that tested the company’s minimally invasive tools and technology for brain surgery in patients with hemorrhagic stroke. Now it faces a major decision.

Roche and Lilly said they believe the test could play an important role in improving access to early and accurate Alzheimer’s diagnosis.

The company filed a rate request Thursday with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission in a move that would raise an extra $492 million a year.