Month: October 2014

Sandy Erickson, United Way of Dane County's director of community impact-health initiatives, oversees HealthConnect, a premium assistance program that provides county residents who fall between 100 and 150 percent of the federal poverty level with financial assistance to purchase silver plans on the Marketplace. (WHN, 10/4)

Watertown Regional Medical Center is forming a joint venture with for-profit, Tennessee-based LifePoint Hospitals, officials announced Thursday. "Our board chose LifePoint because it best met the needs of our hospital organization and the community as a whole," John Kosanovich, president and CEO of Watertown Regional Medical Center, told Wisconsin Health News. (WHN, 10/3)

With open enrollment in the healthcare exchanges a month and a half away, likely voters continue to view the health reform law unfavorably, according to a Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday. (WHN, 10/2)

ProHealth Care is joining the recently announced statewide partnership of health systems that also includes Aspirus, Aurora Health Care, Bellin Health, Gundersen Health System, ThedaCare and UW Health, officials announced Tuesday. (WHN, 10/1)

The state's Medicaid budget is, basically, back in balance, Department of Health Services Secretary Kitty Rhoades said in a letter to the Joint Finance Committee Tuesday. The department needs to trim costs by $0.7 million in state funds by the end of the biennium, down from a $93 million gap predicted in June. (WHN, 10/1)