Month: November 2013

The Department of Health Services is delaying converting to a uniform system of determining Medicaid eligibility required by the federal health reform law called Modified Adjusted Gross Income, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. The state was expected to start processing applications under the new system Monday, Nov. 18. (WHN, 11/20)

Sixty percent of Wisconsin hospitals are receiving bonuses in the second year of Medicare's Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program, one of the highest rates in the nation. (WHN, 11/20)

Governor Scott Walker sent a letter Friday to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, asking for permission to use premium tax credits for qualified health plans purchased outside the federal exchange. In a separate letter, also sent Friday, Walker asked Senator Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., to help him with the request. (WHN, 11/19)

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urged Governor Scott Walker to reconsider $10 billion in federal funding to expand Medicaid during a stop in Milwaukee on Friday where she toured the Progressive Community Health Centers Lisbon Avenue Health Center. (WHN, 11/18)

Responding to what he called a failed federal rollout of the federal health reform law, Governor Scott Walker announced Thursday that he would call a special session of the Legislature to delay for three months the transitioning of more than 77,000 Medicaid members and 25,000 high risk pool members into the state's commercial market. (WHN, 11/15)