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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.
As initially passed, the ACA was designed to provide universal health care in the U.S.: those with employer-sponsored health insurance would keep their plans, those with middle-income and lacking employer-sponsored health insurance could purchase subsidized insurance via newly established health insurance marketplaces, and those with low-income would be covered by the expansion of Medicaid.
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.
Over the course of 2013, a number of states pass bills or take administrative steps to accept the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, which will take full effect on Jan. 1, 2014. Most of these states are run by Democrats, who adopt the policy with little fanfare.
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.
The Froedtert & MCW health network has been using the Xealth digital health platform, which is integrated into its EHR system, since early 2018. Season is the 11 th digital health partner that the health system has added to this platform, which covers a variety of clinical areas, including mental health, maternity, diabetes and others.
Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin apparently plans to open a new primary care clinic on Milwaukee's east side, at 2071 N. Summit Ave., according to documents filed with the city.