Month: July 2013

Various Wisconsin health care organizations have expressed concern over a possible contracting shift for Medicare's Quality Improvement Organizations that would divert administration away from MetaStar, the current sole provider for Wisconsin. (WHN, 7/10)

For the first time since 2007 the Legislature did not need to pass a budget repair bill at the end of the biennium to add funds to Medicaid, according to a report from the Department of Health Services. (WHN, 7/9)

The Department of Health Services plans to pay increased Medicaid payments to primary care physicians slated to begin in January of 2013 by the fourth quarter of this year, department officials confirmed. (WHN, 7/8)

Governor Scott Walker signed into law last Sunday a budget expanding Medicaid for adults below the poverty line, while kicking off nearly 90,000 making more than that. Walker expects that these people will gain coverage under the state's federally run health insurance exchange and that his plan will increase the number of insured individuals by over 224,000. (WHN, 7/8)