Federal officials notified the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) that the state will be allowed to make significant cost-cutting changes to BadgerCare. Although we don’t have precise figures yet on the number of people to be adversely affected, it appears that those changes will cause at least 17,000 adults to lose their...
Late on April 27th
Wisconsin received word from federal officials that the Department of Health Services
(DHS) may proceed with a portion of the proposed changes to BadgerCare. DHS immediately initiated
the process of putting those changes into effect, beginning on July 1, 2012. The modified plan is expected to cause about 17,000 adults to lose their BadgerCare coverage, and many more will have higher costs for their coverage.
Affordable Care Act Protects Coverage of Kids and Lower Income Adults The Department of Health Services (DHS) issued an Operations Memo at 6:15 this evening explaining the changes to BadgerCare that it will implement on July 1. The “ops memo” was distributed after DHS received a letter late today from the federal department of Health...
Core Plan Coverage Plunges to Less Than 27,000, While Waiting List Exceeds 128,000A Wisconsin Budget Project Blog post that I wrote on Wednesday examines the plunging number of people served in the BadgerCare Plus Core Plan, which provides modest health care coverage for adults who don’t have dependent children. Since enrollment in the...
As we noted in Monday’s blog post, April is Minority Health Month, so we took the occasion to discuss racial disparities in health – particularly with respect to infant mortality rates. An April 24th article in the Journal Sentinel by Crocker Stephenson sheds new light on the extent of the problem in Milwaukee. The article reports that...
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