Category: Medicaid/Medicare

Assembly health committee delays vote on specialized wheelchair Medicaid benefit

by Sean Kirkby | Oct 19, 2017 | Medicaid/Medicare, Top Stories, WHN Stories | 0 |

The Assembly Health Committee pushed back a vote scheduled for Wednesday on a bill creating a Medicaid benefit for complex rehabilitation technology, such as customized wheelchairs, and adding a requirement that members receiving the equipment are screened by a certified technology professional.

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Wisconsin Medicare Advantage plans get 5 stars

by Sean Kirkby | Oct 16, 2017 | Medicaid/Medicare, Top Stories, WHN Stories | 0 |

A handful of Wisconsin-based health plans received the highest quality ranking for their Medicare Advantage plans from the federal government.

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On the Record with Cathy Harvey, CEO, UnitedHealthcare of Wisconsin Medicare and Retirement

by Sean Kirkby | Oct 13, 2017 | Medicaid/Medicare, On The Record, Top Stories, WHN Stories | 0 |

Harvey discussed her expectations for the upcoming enrollment period as well as the growing narrow network trend for Medicare Advantage.

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Panelists weigh future regulatory changes

by Ellie Borstad | Oct 12, 2017 | Medicaid/Medicare, Top Stories, WHN Stories | 0 |

The approach President Donald Trump's administration takes toward proposed Medicaid changes could have sweeping impacts on Wisconsin and the nation's healthcare system, agreed panelists at a BioForward panel Tuesday.

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DHS axes prior approval for some mental health treatment

by Sean Kirkby | Oct 10, 2017 | DHS, Medicaid/Medicare, Mental Health, Top Stories, WHN Stories | 0 |

The state’s Medicaid program won't have to give prior approval for patients to receive outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment in excess of 15 hours or $825 a year, effective at the start of the month.

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Heifetz: ‘Don’t read too much’ into Family Care Partnership veto

by Ellie Borstad | Oct 9, 2017 | Medicaid/Medicare, Top Stories, WHN Stories | 0 |

Gov. Scott Walker’s veto of a plan to expand a Medicaid program had more to do with the challenges behind doing so than a dismissal of the idea, a top health department official told Wisconsin Health News last week.

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Heifetz: BadgerCare childless adult waiver process ‘operating smoothly’

by Ellie Borstad | Oct 4, 2017 | Medicaid/Medicare, Top Stories, WHN Stories | 0 |

The state's Medicaid director said Tuesday that he hopes for a formal response by the end of the year from federal officials on the state's proposal to drug test some members of the state's Medicaid program.

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DHS: Medicaid projected to finish biennium in the red

by Ellie Borstad | Oct 3, 2017 | Medicaid/Medicare, Top Stories, WHN Stories | 0 |

The Department of Health Services is projecting that the state's Medicaid program will finish the biennium about $7.9 million more in state spending than anticipated.

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Johnson investigating Medicaid expansion

by Ellie Borstad | Sep 28, 2017 | Medicaid/Medicare, Top Stories, WHN Stories | 0 |

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., wrote a federal agency and eight governors Wednesday asking them for information related to the cost of Medicaid expansion.

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Report: More time spent lobbying Medicaid than any other budget subject during first half of year

by Sean Kirkby | Sep 27, 2017 | Medicaid/Medicare, Top Stories, WHN Stories | 0 |

Medicaid was the most lobbied budget bill subject during the first half of the year, according to information released by the Wisconsin Ethics Commission last month.

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Wisconsin disability advocates push back against Obamacare repeal

by Ellie Borstad | Sep 26, 2017 | Medicaid/Medicare, Top Stories, WHN Stories | 0 |

Wisconsin advocates for those with disabilities stepped up efforts to push Republican lawmakers to ditch their latest Obamacare repeal attempt as another GOP senator came out against the bill Monday.

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Walker keeps physical medicine study in budget

by Sean Kirkby | Sep 22, 2017 | Medicaid/Medicare, Opioids, State budget, Top Stories, WHN Stories | 0 |

Gov. Scott Walker will keep in place parts of the budget requiring the Department of Health Services to study and develop a Medicaid pilot project that would promote the use of chiropractic care as well as physical and occupational therapy to pain.

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