Month: October 2014

Mercy Health System plans to merge with Rockford Health System to form a five-hospital system that will provide services to patients in 40 communities in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, officials announced Monday. (WHN, 10/28)

Most Wisconsin insurers are joining the Department of Employee Trust Funds and offering a special enrollment period for same-sex couples who married in Wisconsin or other states earlier this year and have missed the 30-day window usually applied to "life-changing" events. (WHN 10/28)

"Wisconsin's Medicaid program is growing at a slower rate than most other states that did not accept federal health reform law dollars to expand Medicaid, and well below the pace of expansion states, according to a recent report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services." (WHN, 10/27)

"ProHealth Care will join Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's Blue Priority network Dec. 1. The network includes the six other members of a statewide provider partnership ProHealth joined earlier this month, as well as the Children's Hospital System in Milwaukee and Meriter-UnityPoint Health in Madison." (WHN, 10/27)

"The Department of Health Services launched a toll free line Friday for questions about the Ebola virus. The number is 1-844-684-1064. Calls are free, confidential and multilingual." (WHN, 10/27)