Month: September 2014

Rate changes are across the board for insurers participating in the state's federally facilitated health insurance exchange next year . Dean Health Plan expects to raise rates by an average of 13 percent in 2015 for individual plans compliant with the federal health reform law. Compcare Health Services Insurance Corporation and Security Health Plan are increasing rates 9 percent. (WHN, 9/24)

An influx of new patients and staff shortages caused a waiting period of more than 50 days for primary care at the Madison's veterans hospital, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs administrators said at a town hall meeting Tuesday. (WHN, 9/24)

Healthcare stakeholders gained a better picture of where exchange enrollees are coming from - and where they are not - with a recent data release by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Health Services. (WHN, 9/23)

The Health Resources and Services Administration awarded the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative a three-year, $897,000 grant Friday to establish a behavioral telehealth network. (WHN, 9/22)

Missouri-based SSM Health Care, which merged with Dean Health Systems last year, is changing its name to SSM Health, according to a recent statement. (WHN, 9/22)