Author: Tim Stumm

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)

The state’s focus on treatment for substance abuse problems could help the federal government approve proposed changes allowing for the drug testing of childless adults on BadgerCare, according to Kevin Moore, the state’s Medicaid director. (WHN, 3/30)

This week, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released their 2015 County Health Rankings. The rankings started as a project of the institute 12 years ago to show how the health of Wisconsinites varies within the state’s borders and to spur local improvement efforts. (WHN, 3/27)

Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, co-chair of the Joint Finance Committee, said Thursday that Assembly Republicans support SeniorCare. (WHN, 3/27)