Finance And Data

Valued Voice Articles/General Memos

• 7/3/08: Report Shows Cost-Shifting Major Component of Rising Health Care Costs
  
• 7/3/08: Medicaid NPI Implementation Issues Affecting Payments for Crossover Claims
  7/3/08: President's Column: New Study Confirms Role That Medicaid Underpayment Plays in Driving Insurance Premiums Higher
  7/3/08: WHA Task Force Draws Important Distinction Between "Access" and "Coverage"
  
• 6/27/08: WHA Comments on CMS 2009 Inpatient Rule: CMS Needs to Use WHA's "Inclusive and Collaborative Approach" for Implementing Quality Measures
  
  • 2009 WHA Comment Letter to CMS Re: Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient PPS and Fiscal Year 2009 Rates (6/08)
  
  
• 6/27/08: Guest Column: Non-payment for Adverse Events: Quality Improvement...or Just Another Payment Cut from Insurers?
  
• 6/27/08: Three More Hospital Associations Launch PricePoint Web Sites
  6/27/08: Division of Quality Assurance Provides Hospital Citation Report, Other Information
  
• 6/6/08:Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors
  
• 6/6/08:HFMA Wisconsin Awards Student Scholarships
  
• 5/30/08:Health Plans Pledge to Provide Enrollees with Out-of-Pocket Estimates
  
• 5/30/08:UnitedHealthcare Revises Admission Notification Policy
  
• 5/30/08:WHA Comments on Proposed Health Professional Shortage Area Rule
  
• 5/9/08:CMS Releases the Medicare SNF and Inpatient Psychiatric PPS Rules for 2009
  
• 4/25/08:Medicaid Director Helgerson Says Goal is to Insure 98% of Wisconsin's Residents
  
• 4/25/08:CMS Releases Proposed Inpatient Rehabilitation Payment Rule for Fiscal Year 2009
  
• 4/18/08:WHA Unveils New Web Site to WCMEW Board
  
• 4/18/08:Register Today for the 2008 Rural Health Conference, June 18-20 in Elkhart Lake
  
• 4/18/08:CMS Releases Proposed Inpatient Rule for FY 09
  
• 4/18/08:IRS Releases Draft Instructions to Redesigned Form 990
  
• 4/18/08:WHA President's Column: Doyle Administration Initiative Advances Wisconsin Reform Agenda
  
• 4/18/08:CMS Poised to Release Final Report on RAC Demonstration
  
• 4/18/08:DHFS Memo Outlines ER Requirements for Sexual Assault Victims
  
• 4/4/08:WHA RAC Task Force Holds First Meeting
  
• 3-7-08:Guest Column: Medicare Dis-Advantage
  
• 3-7-08:CMS Releases Status Document on Medicare RAC Program
  
• 2-29-08:WHA Launches New Community Benefit Collection, Survey Tool
  
• 2-29-08:Fisher Says Integrated Health Care, Common in Wisconsin, Cuts Costs
  
• 2-8-08:Critical Access Hospitals Can Report Outpatient Quality Data
  
• 2-1-08:Hospital Quality Improving, Cost, Mortality Rate Trends Declining for Participants in Medicare Pay-For-Performance Project
  
  • PowerPoint used in Press Conference
• 2-1-08: Governor Doyle Launches BadgerCare Plus
  
• 2-1-08:CMS Postpones NDC Reporting Requirement for Wisconsin Medicaid
  
• 1-25-08:WHA Task Force on Access and Coverage Focus: Ensure Access and Coverage for Underserved; Address Necessary Cost Containment Strategies
  
• 1-25-08:CMS Prevents CAHs from Reporting Outpatient Quality Data
  
• 1-18-08:MedPAC Recommends Medicare Cuts, Including IME Reductions
  
• 1-18-08:16th Annual $1,000 Rural Health Prize - April 15, 2008 Deadline
  
• 12-21-07:HIRSP Reimbursement De-Linked From Medicaid
  
• 11-30-07:DHFS Asks CMS for Delay in NDC Reporting Requirement
  
• 11-30-07:President's Column: CMS VBP Report is a Dud
  
• 11-16-07: Guest Column: Legislature Must Fix Medicaid Reimbursement Inequities (by Nick Turkal, President/CEO, Aurora Health Care, and Timothy W. Sullivan, President/CEO, Bucyrus International)
  
• 11-16-07: Guest Column: Health Insurance Premium Increases Stabilizing (by George Quinn, Senior Vice President, WHA)
  
• 11-9-07:CMS Releases Final OPPS Rule for CY 2008
  
• 11-2-07:Guest Column: Medicare Recovery Audits Coming to Wisconsin Soon...Time to Prepare is NOW!
  
• 11-2-07:WHA Launches 2008-09 Wage Index Improvement Project
  
• 10-19-07:Wisconsin Hospitals ALL Receive CMS Full Market Basket Update
  
• 10-5-07:IPPS Rule Now in Effect
  
• 9-28-07:Providers Avoid Workers Compensation Payment Cuts - Labor Holds Firm
  
• 8/24/07: Margins Fall in Wisconsin Hospitals - Charity Care Increases by Nearly 30 Percent
• 8/17/07: WHA Summary of 2008 OPPS Proposed Rule
• 7/27/07: CMS Releases 2008 Outpatient PPS Proposed Rule
• 6/22/07: WHEFA Board's Recent Decision: A New Agenda?
• 6/8/07 Workers Compensation Advisory Council Focuses on Payment for Health Care Services
  
• 6/8/07 Memo Sent to Prospective Payment System Hospitals on FY 08 IPPS Rule
  
• 5/25/07 Wisconsin Legislators Oppose Cuts Under CMS's Proposed IPPS Rule

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• 5/4/07 Notice of Discharge Changes Effective July 1 CMS to Increase IRF PPS Payments by 2.4 Percent for FFY 2008
  
• 5/4/07 CMS to Increase IRF PPS Payments by 2.4 Percent for FFY 2008
  
• 5/4/07 CMS Proposes Significant Payment Changes for Medicare Home Health Services
  
• 5/4/07 CMS Updates SNF Payments
  
• 5/4/07 CMS Releases an Update Notice for the IPF PPS Rule for RY 2008
  
• 5/4/07 Plan to Attend 2007 Rural Health Conference, June 27-29 in WI Dells
  
• 5/4/07 CMS Releases 2008 Final Rule for Long-term Care Hospital PPS
  
• 4/20/07 Proposed Medicare Rule for FFY 2008 Includes Changes to the DRG Classification System