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Read MoreMonth: June 2013
Insurers pay out less rebates in 2012
Jun 24, 2013 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
Nearly 150,000 Wisconsin residents are expected to receive $3.6 million in rebate checks - an average of $46 a consumer - from insurers who failed to meet the federal health reform law's minimum loss ratio requirements in 2012. That's down from 2011, when 282,800 Wisconsinites received $10.4 million in rebates, a $76 average. (WHN, 6/24)
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Wisconsin at less risk of doc shortage than elsewhere
Jun 21, 2013 | Top Stories |
Wisconsin has done a better job of holding onto its primary care physicians than most other states have, and new programs for aspiring doctors have positioned the state to weather a possible shortage when the national health care overhaul takes effect next year. (AP, 6/21)
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Wisconsin Telestroke Network welcomes Southwest Health Center
Jun 21, 2013 | Press Releases |
Madison, Wis. — Southwest Health Center of Platteville is the latest member of the growing Wisconsin Telestroke Program headquartered at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. This means patients who go to Southwest...
Read MoreAnthem posts 15 percent profit margin in 2012
Jun 20, 2013 | Top Stories, Uncategorized |
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Wisconsin finished 2012 with a profit margin of 15 percent, while subsidiary Compcare Health Services Insurance Corporation earned a 7 percent profit margin. (WHN, 6/20)
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First Bird in Wisconsin Tests Positive for West Nile Virus This Year
Jun 20, 2013 | Press Releases |
Contact: Jennifer Miller, Department of Health Services, (608) 266-1683 Linda Walter, Washington County Health Department, (262) 335-4462 MADISON—State and county health officials announced today that a dead crow found in...
Read MoreAurora Research Institute wins $1.5 million DOD grant to develop patient-centered electronic decision-making tool
Jun 20, 2013 | Press Releases |
Milwaukee – The Aurora Research Institute, a division of Aurora Health Care, has won a $1.5 million U.S. Dept. of Defense grant to study an advanced electronic health record system that proactively alerts nurses to health risks...
Read MoreChildren’s Hospital of Wisconsin’s Project ADAM launches new partnership with Bay View Community Center’s R.E.A.D.Y. Team
Jun 20, 2013 | Press Releases |
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin’s Project ADAM launches new partnership
with Bay View Community Center’s R.E.A.D.Y. Team
Osteopathic college group dismisses leader
Jun 19, 2013 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
Dr. Gregg Silberg is no longer with the Wisconsin College of Osteopathic Medicine, a lawyer for the group confirmed Tuesday night at a Jefferson City Council meeting. The group hopes to build a new college on the former grounds of St. Coletta of Wisconsin in Jefferson. (WHN, 6/19)
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Most Wisconsin counties fall short of cancer-control goals
Jun 18, 2013 | Top Stories, WHN Stories |
Newly released fact sheets on cancer's impact in Wisconsin reveal that 97 percent of counties have higher cancer death rates than the 2015 goal set by the Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Control Program. (WHN, 6/18)
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