Month: October 2011

Health care premiums for member employers of the Business Health Care Group are 13 percent below the average premium costs for southeast Wisconsin, according to a new study by Milliman based on 2009 medical and pharmacy claims. (MILWAUKEE BUSINESS JOURNAL, 10/26)

A federal magistrate has ordered a 30-day extension to complete a competency exam of a Marshfield man accused of threatening workers at a Madison Planned Parenthood clinic earlier this year. (WAUSAU DAILY HERALD, 10/26)

Local school officials are concerned about a state bill that would decrease training requirements for school nurses and for school staff who give students medication. The state Senate will vote on the bill today. It is expected to pass and move on to the Assembly, according to legislators’ staffers. (RACINE JOURNAL TIMES, 10/25)

Business leaders told Gov. Scott Walker Monday that everything from cumbersome regulatory processes to increasing health care costs impede job creation. (WAUSAU DAILY HERALD, 10/25)

As the finances continue to improve for the majority of FamilyCare managed care organizations, Community Health Partnerships is still fighting to get out of the red. (WHN, 10/24)

The Tomahawk and Merrill school districts will save $1.2 million combined -- and avoid cutting teachers and programs -- by dropping an insurance provider created by the state's largest teachers union, officials said. (WAUSAU DAILY HERALD, 10/24)

Doctors paid millions of dollars by Medtronic failed to identify a significant cancer risk with the company's spine surgery product in a 2009 paper about results of a large clinical trial. (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 10/24)