Author: Tim Stumm

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)

Family members of those who died at the Tomah Veteran Affairs Medical Center and whistleblowers who said they faced retaliation for calling attention to the facility's alleged practices of overprescribing painkillers testified at a congressional hearing Monday. (WHN, 3/31)