Month: October 2012

Medicaid budget gap shrinks

Oct 1, 2012 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |

The state's Medicaid budget shortfall is down to $13.8 million, or $35.5 million all funds, said Department of Health Services Secretary Dennis Smith in a letter to the budget committee Friday. (WHN, 10/1)

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Nickel: State needs more info to meet EHB deadline

Oct 1, 2012 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |

The state needs more information from the Department of Health and Human Services before it can determine what minimum insurance benefits Wisconsinites will be entitled to in 2014 under the federal health reform law, Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel said in a letter Friday addressed to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. HHS had asked states to select their benchmark plan for essential health benefits by Sept. 30. (WHN, 10/1)

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Senate race focus turns to health care

Oct 1, 2012 | Top Stories |

In an increasingly competitive U.S. Senate race, the candidates and their allies are turning to health care to attack each other and highlight the differences between them. Republican Tommy G. Thompson and his allies - hoping to offset Thompson's slide in the polls - are using Democrat Tammy Baldwin's support of the new health care law to portray her as a big spender and too liberal for Wisconsin. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 10/1)

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EEOC sues Aurora for disability discrimination

Oct 1, 2012 | Top Stories |

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Aurora Health Care for allegedly rescinding job offers to two people after learning they had disabilities. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 9/28)

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