Health care costs for 18 large employers in southeastern Wisconsin’s Business Health Care Group have declined by 9% over the past two years under a plan developed for the group, according to an analysis, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The coalition comprises more than 675 businesses and was created to help reduce health care costs [...]
Health insurance providing members of the Wisconsin Association of Health Plans have pledged to make health care costs more transparent to enrollees.
By September 1, 2008 all 17 members of the association will provide consumers with estimates of out-of-pocket costs for various procedures.
Analysts say the initiative will have a positive impact on the market by encouraging [...]
Wisconsin county Negotiates new deal with health insurance provider and offers incentives for prevention.
Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk announced today the county will save $1-million in health care costs in the 2009 county budget by re-negotiating the contract with its health insurance provider. The new three-year deal with Physicians Plus Insurance Corporation holds down rate [...]
Adults who are chronically uninsured and who do not have children under their care may now have access to primary and preventive care. Wisconsin Governor Doyle announces an agreement with Federal Government to offer Health Care to childless adults.
Governor Jim Doyle announced today that his administration has reached an agreement in principle on the next [...]
Wisconsin last week received federal approval to expand its BadgerCare Plus program to provide basic health coverage for low-income childless adults who are not eligible for other state health programs, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The BadgerCare Plus program — which previously was limited to children, families with children, and people with disabilities — will [...]
Humana has agreed to pay $750,000 to the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance to settle allegations that some of the company’s agents who sold Medicare Advantage and Medicare prescription drug plans in the state were unlicensed and in violation of other insurance laws, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
State Insurance Commissioner Sean Dilweg, [...]
The Wisconsin legislature approved the state’s final budget on October 23 and did not include a controversial, near-universal health insurance mandate that would have forced every resident to purchase health insurance.
The state Senate passed the individual health insurance mandate as a standalone bill on June 26, less than 24 hours after its introduction. The measure [...]
Enrollmentin Wisconsin’snew BadgerCare Plus program began on Thursday, and state officialsplan to enroll at least 25,000 children within the next 12 to 18 months, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The program consolidatesand streamlines the state’s existing Medicaid, Healthy Start and Badger Careprograms.
Under the initiative, families with annual incomes up to 300% of the federalpoverty level [...]
Enrollmentin Wisconsin’s new BadgerCare Plus program has %26quot;farexceeded%26quot; officials’ expectations, with more than 71,000 residentsenrolling in the first six weeks of the program, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports (Boulton/Forster, MilwaukeeJournal Sentinel, 4/29). The program consolidates and streamlines thestate’s existing Medicaid, Healthy Start and Badger Care programs.
Under the initiative, families with annual incomes up to [...]
The Wisconsin Association of Health Plans on Tuesday announced that 17 membercompanies will begin offering policyholders estimates of out-of-pocket healthcare costs before undergoing a test or procedure, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
The groupof insurers includes 13 of the 20 largest insurers in the state. Patients willbe required to provide detailed information about procedures to [...]