Month: April 2015

Insurance companies support changes that Gov. Scott Walker has proposed to the state's long-term care programs, but the proposals would shutter some current managed care organizations and make it "very difficult" for the rest to survive. (WHN, 4/7)

Other states have long-term care programs that incorporate some of Gov. Scott Walker's proposed changes to Family Care, but advocates say those changes would not save the state much money. (WHN, 4/6)

The Wisconsin Chiropractic Association's top priority this session is modifying the state's three-decade old Insurance Equality Law, which the association says no longer achieves its original intent of preventing insurers from discriminating against chiropractors. (WHN, 4/3)

The Department of Health Services anticipates Wisconsin's Medicaid program will end the biennium in balance, assuming it allocates roughly $47 million from lawsuit settlements with drug manufacturers. (WHN 4/2)

Some advocates say they have concerns about language in Gov. Scott Walker's budget that consolidates funding for long-term care for children with disabilities into a single program. (WHN, 4/2)

The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services will hold a hearing today on a bill that would require doctors to provide materials on safe sleep to pregnant women and make it a felony to harm or kill an infant by intoxicated cosleeping. (WHN, 4/1)