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Report: College education becoming more important, less affordable
College education is becoming ever more important — and ever less affordable for Louisvillians, according to a new report from 55,000 Degrees. The nonprofit, which is focused on increasing the share of...
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Chair: JCPS superintendent committee will be able to make recommendation
After taking an initial look at the nine applicants for JCPS superintendent, the chair of the screening committee said that it will be able to recommend at least one candidate to the school board. The...
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Louisville youth employment outpacing national average
Thanks to programs such as SummerWorks, Louisville’s youth employment rate is outpacing the national average at an ever greater clip, according to the local workforce development board. About five...
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Sources: Hedge fund primary suitor for Jewish Hospital
New York-based hedge fund BlueMountain Capital Management is the prime suitor for Jewish Hospital, Insider Louisville has learned. Jewish, a 462-bed hospital in downtown Louisville, is part of...
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Shorter ACA sign-up period boosts traffic at local agency
Despite uncertainties around the Affordable Care Act and the dismantling of Kentucky’s health insurance exchange, Louisville’s Family Health Centers this year signed up people for the federal health...
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Raisor: Parts of JCPS ‘like a hamster wheel’
Editor’s Note: The search for a Jefferson County Public Schools superintendent continues and the identity of most of the nine candidates is unknown. However, two local school officials have applied....
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Pollio: ‘We have many challenges’
Editor’s Note: The search for a Jefferson County Public Schools superintendent continues and the identity of most of the nine candidates is unknown. However, two local school officials have applied....
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WSJ: Humana, private equity firms in talks to buy Kindred
Humana is in talks with private equity firms to buy Louisville-based home health care provider Kindred, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed sources. A deal could be announced as...
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UPDATE: Kindred agrees to be acquired by Humana, partners
Kindred Healthcare said Tuesday that its board had agreed to be acquired in a $4.1 billion all-cash deal by two private equity partners and Humana. Shares of Kindred, a Louisville-based hospital,...
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CEOs: Kindred/Humana combo would transform in-home care
The CEOs of Humana and Kindred Healthcare said the Louisville companies’ merger would allow them to transform how older Americans, especially those with chronic conditions, get care in their home and...
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Economists: Tax law’s impact on economic growth is likely small
Thanks to President Trump’s “Christmas present” to the nation, most Americans next year will pay fewer federal taxes, many businesses will have a lower tax rate and the pace of economic growth will...
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Louisville nonprofit leaders fear revenue hit from tax bill
Louisville nonprofit leaders told Insider that they worried the pending tax law would reduce charitable giving, which would undermine programs for some of the region’s most vulnerable populations...
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Health care industry experts: ‘Arms race’ between insurers, providers escalating
Three bombshell announcements in the health care sector this month — including Humana’s planned acquisition of Kindred Healthcare — mark an evolution in the “arms race” between insurers and providers,...
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Feds to penalize Norton, UofL, Jewish hospitals for high infection rates
A federal agency said it will reduce Medicare payments to three Louisville hospitals by millions of dollars because they rank among the nation’s worst for hospital-acquired conditions, including...
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The year in local stocks: Tobacco, horses, bourbon beat banking, pizza, gifts
Tobacco, horses, bourbon. Good. Banking, pizza, gifts. Bad. That, in a nutshell, tells the story of the stock performance of companies based in — or with significant ties to — Louisville. The stock...
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UofL researchers use ultrasound to dry blood, hope to reduce shortages, aid...
University of Louisville researchers hope that a novel approach to use ultrasound to dry blood will ease shortages in remote locations, enable delivery by drone — and even facilitate long journeys in...
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Louisville entrepreneur tries to demystify bitcoin
Investors the world over made lots of money on cryptocurrencies last year, including some in the Louisville area. One of them, Enrique Rodriquez, 23, of Jeffersonville, has started a business — funded...
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Huge demand wipes out annual allotment for angel investment credit in one day
A state income tax credit on angel investments is in danger of collapsing under the weight of its own popularity — and because the money the state has allotted to the program may run out as early as...
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GEA launches ‘Giddy’– a FirstBuild-like startup to help businesses design...
GE Appliances has launched a startup, called Giddy, to help business bring better-designed products to market quickly, building upon lessons the company learned from its co-creation subsidiary...
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Humana shares fall on projected prescription drug woes, tax law impact
Humana shares fell 2.5 percent in the first hour of trading Monday after the insurer said that it would lose about 300,000 prescription drug plan customers this year and that the recently passed tax...
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