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Nov 7, 2012 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
Former state health secretary Kevin Hayden has been the next CEO of Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin. Hayden succeeds Larry Zanoni, who is retiring after nearly four decades with the organization. He starts Feb. 1, 2013. (WHN, 11/7)
Nov 6, 2012 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
Consumer Reports – better known rating cars, refrigerators, and computers – is adding another product to its list: doctors. The organization is teaming up the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality to produce a 30-page insert that will rate physicians on seven preventive health measures. (WHN, 11/6)
Nov 5, 2012 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
The Office of the Commissioner of Insurance said again last week that it would be able to meet federal deadlines for implementing a state-run health insurance exchange if Governor Scott Walker decides that's the direction he wants to pursue. Walker has said he's waiting until Tuesday's elections to make a decision. (WHN, 11/5)
Nov 5, 2012 | Top Stories |
Roughly two out of three people in nursing homes in Wisconsin are dependent on Medicaid to pay for their care. They account for almost $1 billion of the $7 billion that Wisconsin and the federal government will spend on the health program this fiscal year. Medicaid, which covers low-income families with children under 19 as well as the elderly and disabled who are impoverished, has received far less attention in the presidential campaign than Medicare. But Medicaid, which costs about $400 billion a year, provides health care for more people - roughly 1 million in Wisconsin and more than 60 million nationwide. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 11/5)
Nov 2, 2012 | Top Stories |
This small Midwestern city - which anthropologist Margaret Mead once called "a microcosm of America" - offers a window into what is at stake. Obamacare is dividing patients and doctors, hospitals and government regulators, workers and employers, constituents and politicians. And here, as elsewhere, many are confused about the law's provisions. (REUTERS, 11/2)
Nov 1, 2012 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
Nearly 25 percent of Milwaukee-area employers with between 20 and 99 employees say they are either "likely" or "very likely" to drop health care coverage in 2014 and let employees purchase individual insurance through the health insurance exchange. (WHN, 11/1)
Nov 1, 2012 | Top Stories |
Aurora Health Care is making management changes as it seeks to improve the financial performance of its Milwaukee hospitals, according to an email the organization's chief executive sent to employees Wednesday. "Our results at Aurora St. Luke's and Aurora Sinai require significant improvement," said the email sent by Nick Turkal, a physician who is Aurora's president and CEO. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 11/1)
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