Author: Tim Stumm

Healthcare providers are using team-based care, technology and innovative models to boost access to primary care, which they say can help prevent costly care down the road for patients, according to panelists at a Wisconsin Health News event Tuesday in Milwaukee. 

The Department of Health Services is on track to renew a Medicaid program that allows participants to self-direct their long-term care. 

Pandemic-era flexibilities that allowed Medicare recipients to receive telehealth services at home would last until Sept. 30, under a bill that passed the House Tuesday to avert a federal government shutdown. 

Wisconsin is in a better position if Congress cuts federal Medicaid spending than other states, Gov. Tony Evers and Department of Health Services Secretary-designee Kirsten Johnson said Monday in Milwaukee. 

Wisconsin’s economy could take a hit if Congress doesn’t extend more generous Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, according to a report released by The Commonwealth Fund Monday. 

Attorney General Josh Kaul asked the U.S. Supreme Court last week to uphold a part of the Affordable Care Act that guarantees access to preventive care. 

Wisconsin is onboarding with a national milk testing strategy for bird flu. 

BadgerCare Plus enrollment fell in January, according to state data. 

The Insurance Center, an employee benefits and property and casualty insurance firm based in Onalaska, has joined an Illinois-based financial services company.