On the Record with WPS Health Insurance CEO Mike Hamerlik
It's been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad last couple months for Mike Hamerlik and WPS Health Insurance. (WHN, 11/30)
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Nov 29, 2012 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
Nurses and diagnostic imaging professionals wishing to increase their education can start taking classes this fall under the University of Wisconsin System’s Flexible Option program, university officials announced Wednesday. (WHN, 11/29)
Nov 29, 2012 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services told the Department of Health Services that it would not approve a three-year roll-out of its Virtual PACE demonstration, and that it should submit a new proposal limiting the geographic expansion. That’s according to new documents posted Wednesday by DHS. (WHN, 11/29)
Nov 29, 2012 | Top Stories |
The Affordable Care Act cuts Medicare payments to hospitals across Wisconsin by about $2.6 billion over ten years. Brenton says that could mean big cuts to operating budgets at many hospitals like Meriter. (WKOW, 11/29)
Nov 28, 2012 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
Meriter Health Services is blaming impending Medicare cuts from the federal health reform law for layoffs announced Tuesday that are expected to impact nearly 50 employees. It’s eliminating 140 full-time positions across all Meriter entities, according to a letter CEO Jim Woodward sent employees. (WHN, 11/28)
Nov 28, 2012 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
The Department of Health Services is delaying implementation of its Virtual PACE proposal and cutting its scope in half as it continues to negotiate a Memorandum of Understanding with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, spokeswoman Stephanie Smiley told Wisconsin Health News Tuesday. (WHN, 11/28)
Nov 28, 2012 | Top Stories |
Wisconsin should dramatically increase the amount of money it spends on treatment programs that keep offenders with drug and alcohol addictions and mental illness out of prison, two groups said Tuesday. The call is receiving a warm reception from some Republicans and Democrats weary of forking over roughly $1.3 billion a year to lock up Wisconsin offenders — about half of whom land back in prison after release. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 11/28)
Nov 27, 2012 | Top Stories |
Madison officials mourned the loss of booming Epic Systems to Verona in the mid-2000s, but the medical software colossus is having a huge, unexpected impact on its original hometown. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 11/27)
Nov 27, 2012 | Uncategorized |
2012.11.27 – Rural vs. Urban Nurses
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With his second term now secure, is President Obama's signature health-care law a sure thing? From health insurance exchanges to a vast expansion of Medicaid, ObamaCare is heavily dependent on state implementation. And a growing number of the nation's 30 Republicans governors are saying they won't do the federal government's bidding. Wisconsin's Scott Walker is one of them. (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 11/27)
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