Month: November 2011

Wisconsin Heart and Vascular Institute, a group of 16 cardiologists, vascular surgeons and mid-level providers, will join Meriter Medical Group Jan. 1, Meriter Health Services announced. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 11/2)

The request by the state's insurance commissioner to exempt health insurers from having to spend 80% of premiums on medical care could cost consumers an estimated $14 million over three years. That works out to a savings of 1% or less of what consumers who buy their own insurance would spend in that time period. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 11/2)

Federal regulators have received reports of three more deaths possibly connected to contaminated alcohol wipes made and sold by a Wisconsin company, according to a newly released review from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The report on Hartland-based H&P Industries and its sister company, Triad Group, says there have been a total of 11 deaths reported to the agency in the wake of a recall of contaminated products, according to the document received Monday by the Journal Sentinel through an open records request. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 11/1)

Madison-based Stratatech Corp. is getting a $4.6 million grant to help fund the start of clinical trials of ExpressGraft, a skin substitute designed to heal diabetes-related foot ulcers. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 11/1)