Nov 7, 2011 | Press Releases |
Contact: Lisa Hildebrand, 608.442.3765, lisa.hildebrand@wismed.org Madison, Wis. – Health care workers who participate in an interactive learning experience are more likely to be sensitive to the needs of patients with low...
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Contact: Jason Brame (414) 477-3940 Madison- One week ago today, late on Halloween, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) released its plan to cut over $500 million from Medicaid. Despite minor changes to the...
Read MoreNov 7, 2011 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
When Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel wrote a letter last month to U.S. health secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking for flexibility from the federal health reform law's medical loss ratio requirements, Wisconsin joined a list of 16 other states seeking a similar waiver. The law requires that insurers in the individual market spend at least 80 percent of their premium revenue on medical expenses. Wisconsin wants that lowered to 71 percent this year, 74 percent in 2012, and 77 percent in 2013. (WHN, 11/7)
Nov 7, 2011 | Top Stories |
Central Wisconsin's three biggest health care providers are among those facing a national drug shortage making it difficult to get some of the medicines patients most desperately need. (WAUSAU DAILY HERALD, 11/7)
Nov 7, 2011 | Top Stories |
One project hopes to reduce risky behavior stemming from drinking in La Crosse. Another hopes to prevent suicides in Kenosha County. Yet another will teach children in Head Start programs in Milwaukee about oral health. The projects are among those awarded a total of $4.8 million in grants last week from the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program overseen by the Medical College of Wisconsin. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 11/7)
Nov 4, 2011 | Top Stories |
Nursing homes would receive fewer citations for violations -- and would have more time to pay them -- under a bill the Assembly approved early Friday. State officials estimate the bill would result in nursing homes having to pay $1.5 million less a year in forfeitures. The Assembly approved the bill 70-22, sending it to Gov. Scott Walker. The Senate approved it 24-7 last week. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 11/4)
Nov 4, 2011 | Top Stories |
Wisconsin would expand BadgerCare instead of making cuts to it and other Medicaid programs, under a plan announced Thursday by ABC for Health, a nonprofit law firm in Madison that helps people obtain health care. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 11/4)
Nov 3, 2011 | Top Stories |
Physicians Plus isn't requiring any patients to use Meriter Hospital instead of UW Hospital for certain services, despite its memo in June outlining steps to do so. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 11/3)
Nov 3, 2011 | Top Stories |
Schools that teach sexual education would have to promote marriage and tell students abstinence is the only reliable way to prevent pregnancy, under a bill the Senate passed Wednesday. The Republican-backed measure passed on a party-line 17-15 vote and now goes to the Republican-run Assembly. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 11/3)
Nov 2, 2011 | Top Stories |
When Sim Baby's oxygen level drops, its mouth turns blue. METIman groans and coughs from heart failure. TraumaMan's neck can be punctured to create a tracheostomy, or hole for breathing. The high-tech manikins — anatomical models used in health care, as opposed to storefront mannequins — are among the stars of UW Health's Clinical Simulation Program, featuring a new $6 million facility on the first floor of UW Hospital. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 11/2)
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