The Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) at the University of Wisconsin recently received $7.5 million in additional grants from the National Institutes of Health, after it was first established by NIH grants in 2009. Since its establishment in 2009, the ADRC has published three hundred works and identifying many risk factors and biomarkers in […]
Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Research Center Awarded NIH Grant
Date Thu, Jun. 26, 2014 - 11:59am By Hamilton
DOJ Launches New Medical Forensics Website
Date Thu, Apr. 24, 2014 - 2:53pm By Hamilton
The Wisconsin Department of Justice has launched a new website which provides information and assistance for nurses and other medical professionals practicing medical forensics and responding to sexual assault cases. The website provides information, training, and technical assistance for medical professionals to learn how to collect evidence. Said Attorney General Van Hollen, “It’s incredibly important […]
Projected Medical Assistance Budget Reduced by $72 million
Date Fri, Apr. 4, 2014 - 9:49am By Hamilton
On April 1, 2014 the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) submitted a quarterly report on the overall condition of the Medical Assistance (MA) budget to the Joint Committee on Finance. The report showed significant improvement from the last quarterly report. The projected $92.6 million GPR deficit in the Medicaid budget, which was reported December […]
Governor Walker Signs 29 Bills into Law
Date Wed, Apr. 2, 2014 - 10:12am By Hamilton
With the Assembly and Senate finishing off their two year session and March drawing to a close, Governor Walker signed a slew of bills into law, with one partial veto and one full veto. The following is a partial list of those bills signed: Assembly Bill 770 – creates an emergency heating assistance loan guarantee […]
Oral Chemotherapy Bill Passes Assembly with Amendment
Date Thu, Mar. 20, 2014 - 6:31pm By Hamilton
After passing the Senate earlier this week, discussion on a bill (SB 300) took place in the Assembly that would require an insurance plan that covers both intravenous and oral chemotherapy to treat the cost-sharing (copayment, deductible or coinsurance amounts) for oral chemotherapy the same as cost sharing for intravenous treatments. Referred to as “parity” the […]
Legislative Update: Roundabouts, Tax Credits, and Leadership Shifts
Date Tue, Mar. 11, 2014 - 3:02pm By Hamilton
Wisconsin Rewable Energy Act Introduced Despite its sweeping policies, the Wisconsin Renewable Energy Act was recently introduced with muted fanfare and debate that reflects its likely demise. Fair to say: too late, too much, and wrong party. Introduced by Sen. Mark Miller (D-Monona), Rep. Katrina Shankland (D-Stevens Point), and Rep. Cory Mason (D-Racine), the legislation […]
Sen. Johnson v. OPM and the ACA Health Insurance Subsidy for Congress
Date Fri, Jan. 10, 2014 - 11:41am By Hamilton
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has made the latest move by the Republicans against the Affordable Care Act, taking his issue to the courts. This move to stifle what he sees as overreaching power by the act is generating tension within the Republican Party however, and the repercussions of both the suit and party politics have […]
Wisconsin Commissioner of Insurance Warns Consumers About Federal Exchange Glitches
Date Thu, Jan. 9, 2014 - 5:43pm By Hamilton
Wisconsinites who have purchased health insurance on the federal exchange need to look out for two issues plaguing consumers. First, for some plans, the exchange is not displaying the correct information about deductibles. Other consumers are finding they are not actually enrolled because their information was never sent from the exchange to the insurance company […]
ACA Enrollment in Wisconsin
Date Thu, Jan. 9, 2014 - 2:22pm By Hamilton
Recent communications between the Wisconsin Dept. of Health Services and the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reveal 32,000 Wisconsinites have been identified as being eligible to receive BadgerCare after visiting the federal health exchange to obtain health care coverage. This is a good chunk of the 83,000 childless adults DHS estimated would […]
Affordable Care Act Update
Date Thu, Dec. 19, 2013 - 8:31am By Hamilton
Although reports indicate that the federal healthcare.gov insurance exchange website is working better than when it was launched in October, Wisconsin is taking action to make sure residents who are losing their state coverage, and thus must shop for coverage on the exchange, have plenty of time to do so. Enrollment in Wisconsin On December […]