Month: June 2014

Wisconsinites who selected plans with tax credits paid an average of $112 per month after tax credits for plans selected on the state's federally facilitated health insurance exchange, the Department of Health and Human Services said in a report released Wednesday. (WHN, 6/18)

Physician fees are 50 percent higher on average in southeast Wisconsin than other selected Midwest markets according to a report releasedThursday by the Greater Milwaukee Business Foundation on Health. The difference is estimated to have increased commercial premiums in the area by 15 percent. (WHN, 6/16)

Late last month, the federal government announced it was awarding nearly $16 million to a project led by cardiac disease researchers through a 10-site pilot program in Wisconsin and Florida called Smarter Management and Resource Use for Today's Complex Cardiac Care, or SMARTCare. The goal of the initiative is improving quality, while lowering the costs of diagnosing and treating chest pain and heart disease by using new software to determine appropriate testing and surgery needs. (WHN, 6/13)

The eight counties with no formal plans to implement Family Care have varying degrees of interest in the program, according to a survey by Wisconsin Health News. (WHN, 6/12)