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Appleton-based Quest Analytics acquires healthcare data company
Appleton-based Quest Analytics, a health tech company that aims to help insurers create and manage adequate networks, has acquired California-based BetterDoctor, which tracks data on providers.
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Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment awards $1.7 million for projects
The Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment has awarded $1.7 million to projects set to start next month, according to a Monday announcement.
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Legislative study group to tackle direct primary care
A legislative study committee that will recommend legislation for direct primary care arrangements named its members last week.
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Turkal, Turney among top physician executives
Advocate Aurora Health co-CEO Dr. Nick Turkal and Marshfield Clinic Health System CEO Dr. Susan Turney are among the nation’s top 50 physician executives, according to a new list from Modern Healthcare.
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Common Ground disappointed with risk corridor ruling
A ruling last week that found the federal government doesn’t have to pay back money insurers claim is owed to them through an Affordable Care Act program could affect a similar lawsuit filed by Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative.
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DHS submits SeniorCare waiver extension for federal approval
The Department of Health Services submitted a waiver Friday for federal approval that would extend a state-run prescription drug assistance program for seniors for a decade.
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Gostout talks Epic implementation, rural healthcare
Mayo Clinic Vice President Dr. Bobbie Gostout, who leads the Mayo Clinic Health System, spoke about the healthcare organization's Epic implementation, the future of rural healthcare and behavioral health challenges at a Tuesday Wisconsin Health News event.
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Analysis: Working adults could still have trouble complying with state’s proposed work requirements
Adults without children on Medicaid who work could still lose access to the program because of barriers in complying with work requirements proposed by the state, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.
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Johnson: Short-term health plans would give consumers more options
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., joined 34 other senators in a Friday letter urging President Donald Trump’s administration to allow short-term health plans to last up to a year.
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Milwaukee Regional Medical Center members set to buy land they lease
Milwaukee County has reached initial agreements allowing four of the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center member organizations to buy the land they lease, according to a Thursday statement.
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ThedaCare finalizes Fox Valley Hematology & Oncology purchase
ThedaCare finalized its purchase of Fox Valley Hematology & Oncology Wednesday.
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Wisconsin’s bioscience industry growth outpaces national average
Growth in Wisconsin’s bioscience industry outpaced the national average, according to a report released this week by a biotechnology trade organization.
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Gostout talks Exact Sciences, Mayo Clinic work on liver cancer screening
Mayo Clinic Vice President Dr. Bobbie Gostout said that her organization and Madison-based Exact Sciences are “rewriting the story of early diagnosis for cancer,” at a Wisconsin Health News event Tuesday.
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Marshfield Clinic Health System, Beaver Dam Community Hospitals announce affiliation plans
Beaver Dam Community Hospitals has signed a letter of intent to join Marshfield Clinic Health System, according to a Tuesday statement.
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