Month: March 2014

In the chamber's final scheduled floor period this legislative session, the Assembly approved an amended bill requiring insurers either provide coverage parity for oral and intravenous forms of chemotherapy or charge patients no more than $100 in monthly co-pays for treatment in pill form. (WHN, 3/21)

With just over a week remaining to gain coverage in 2014 under the health reform law for most Wisconsinites, close to one-fifth of people signing up on the state's federal health insurance exchange are not paying their premiums and enrollees are older than almost every state in the nation, Deputy Commissioner of Insurance Dan Schwartzer said in an interview with Wisconsin Health News. (WHN, 3/21)

Insurers would be able to charge up to a $100 monthly co-pay for oral chemotherapy treatment, based on an amendment proposed by bill author Rep. Pat Strachota, R-West Bend, announced Thursday in collaboration with Republican leadership before the Assembly's vote on the bill its final scheduled legislative session. (WHN, 3/20)

Security Health Plan says 95 percent of its health insurance exchange enrollees with coverage starting Jan. 1 and Feb. 1 paid their premiums, surpassing the state average of 80 percent announced this week by the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance. (WHN, 3/20)

State officials may soon expand a program for the elderly and disabled into northeastern Wisconsin even though lawmakers are letting a bill to require that die this week. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 3/20)