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BadgerCare Plus, known informally as BadgerCare, is a public healthcare coverage program for low-income Wisconsin residents created by former governor Tommy Thompson and modified by former governor Jim Doyle. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services oversees the program's implementation.
The report by the Wisconsin Policy Forum does not take a position on expanding Medicaid but pointed to the estimated $1.7 billion in savings an expansion would deliver the state over two years. It ...
Froedtert Hospital / ˈ f r eɪ d ər t /, located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, is a teaching hospital and a Level I adult trauma center, one of two such facilities in Wisconsin. Froedtert is the primary teaching affiliate of the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), where MCW students and residents receive their clinical education.
In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments, which also have wide latitude in determining eligibility and benefits, but the federal government sets baseline standards for state Medicaid programs and provides a ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and health insurance portability standards.
As construction continues on a new hospital and a clinic in Fond du Lac, Froedtert's temporary clinic is now open on the city's east side.
Before joining Froedtert Health, she spent 22 years at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Froedtert Health and ThedaCare plan to merge into a new regional health system by the end of the year.
A variety of different types of health plans serve Medicaid managed care programs, including for-profit and not-for-profit, Medicaid-focused and commercial, independent and owned by health care providers such as community health centers. In 2007, 350 health plans offered Medicaid coverage.