A Marketplace Special Enrollment Period Ends on Nov. 2nd About 63,000 Wisconsinites lost their BadgerCare eligibility in April, and a large portion of them are now uninsured -- as the following pie chart illustrates. But those who can afford to purchase a subsidized private plan through the federal health insurance Marketplace still...
Participation of Childless Adults in BadgerCare Far Exceeds Forecasts, While Parent and Child Enrollment Continues to Fall The cost to state taxpayers of turning down federal funding for expansion of BadgerCare will be substantially higher the next time the Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) makes that calculation. The potential savings...
There is finally some good news with respect to Wisconsin’s Medicaid budget. The Department of Health Services (DHS) reported today that the previously anticipated Medicaid shortfall has been almost completely eliminated. The department’s previous quarterly report estimated that the state needed to find $93 million of General Fund...
This coming Wednesday, October 1, marks the start of a new federal fiscal year and with it a significant drop in the federal share of funding that helps support Wisconsin’s Medicaid program. The federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP), based on a federal formula that reduces the federal share in states where median income is...
The 2015-17 budget proposal recently submitted by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) illustrates very clearly why balancing the state budget is extremely difficult when the state is going into the next biennium with a large “structural deficit.” In terms of the funding needed for the Medicaid and BadgerCare Plus programs,...
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