Month: January 2014

Rich Kirchen of the Business Journal reports: "UnitedHealthcare, one of Wisconsin's leading health insurers, will return to the state's Medicaid managed-care market effective Feb. 1 after the company had exited Wisconsin's BadgerCarePlus Medicaid program in October 2012."

The federal health care law has already identified tens of thousands of Wisconsin residents eligible for state BadgerCare Plus health care, with some potentially receiving coverage as early as Wednesday as key parts of Obamacare take effect. In a letter Monday to federal officials, state Medicaid director Brett Davis said the Wisconsin Department of Health Services wrote last week to these 32,000 people identified so far as being eligible to receive BadgerCare. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 1/3)