Month: April 2012

Coming into the second year of restricted collective bargaining, school districts that last year handed off higher premium contributions to teachers are now moving to high-deductible health plans like those commonly seen in private business. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 4/23)

Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt is calling Green Bay a "front-runner" to land a Medical College of Wisconsin expansion, after he and other local leaders visited the college and met with top administrators last week. (GREEN BAY PERSS GAZETTE, 4/23)

Citing a new state law that subjects abortion doctors to criminal penalties, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin plans to announce Friday that it is suspending medication-induced abortions. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 4/20)

A former adviser of health policy for the White House spoke in Madison Tuesday night where he talked about improving health quality and cutting costs. (WPR, 4/19)

The parents of a 2-year-old Houston boy who blamed their son's death on a contaminated alcohol wipe made by a Wisconsin company have settled their lawsuit. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 4/19)

From her remote midwestern outpost, Faulkner, 68, has quietly built Epic, which sells electronic health records into a $1.2 billion (2011 revenues) business—double four years ago. She has done it without outside capital, and no marketing. (FORBES, 4/18)

Dr. Tom Zenner has visited the home of one of his patients, looked in the refrigerator and found little food. That made it easy to find out the patient needed a healthier diet. Each month, Zenner visits about 50 patients at their homes, setting aside a half day each week to do it. About 95 percent of those patients are elderly, and all suffer from physical or cognitive disabilities that limit movement, he said. (GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE, 4/17)

A California company is voluntarily recalling nearly 59,000 pounds of a frozen raw yellowfin tuna product linked to a multistate salmonella outbreak, including 14 illnesses in southeastern Wisconsin, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Moon Marine USA Corp. (also known as MMI) of Cupertino, Calif., is recalling product labeled as Nakaochi Scrape AA or AAA because it's been linked to a Salmonella bareilly outbreak that has sickened 116 people in 20 states and the District of Columbia. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 4/17)