The Senate Committee on Health announced today that it will hold a public hearing this Thursday, Feb. 9, on SB 380, which removes the cap on enrollment in Family Care and other long-term care programs. The hearing is scheduled to start at 11:00 a.m. in Room 201-SE in the Capitol. Note that there are also two other bills on the agenda,...
February 4 is the third anniversary of bipartisan legislation that strengthened the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the federal program that, in tandem with Medicaid, makes BadgerCare possible in Wisconsin. This anniversary provides a great opportunity to reflect on our progress in making sure kids have access to health...
Three Percent Increase May Help Some Families Qualify for Benefits Late last week the federal government released the 2012 Federal Poverty Income Guidelines, better known as the "federal poverty level" (FPL). Wisconsin uses the guidelines to determine eligibility for a number of public assistance programs, such as BadgerCare and child...
A new memo from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) provides a detailed analysis of the status of Wisconsin’s Medicaid budget. A careful review of the memo reveals that the various cost-saving measures proposed by DHS far surpass the estimated budget gap if they are all approved and yield the savings DHS has projected. However, some of...
The Department of Health Services (DHS) estimates that lifting the cap on Family Care (and IRIS) and allowing the program to expand into additional counties will cost $80 million in state GPR funding in the current biennium. As we noted in a previous blog post, the bill to lift the cap has no appropriation because the intent of DHS and...
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