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Jul. 6, 2023
Governor Evers Signs Biennial Budget Bill into Law
In a ceremony in the state capitol on July 5, Gov. Tony Evers signed into law a biennial state budget that includes over $350 million in reimbursement increases for hospitals and health systems, along with millions of dollars in investments for physician, registered nurses and allied health professional training grants.
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Jul. 6, 2023
WHA Comments on Medicaid Proposed Rules on Access, Transparency and Managed Care
Commenting this week on two major proposed rules related to access, finance and quality in the Medicaid managed care and fee-for-service (FFS) delivery systems, WHA supported enhanced transparency in Medicaid provider payment rates, encouraged greater oversight into the adequacy of provider networks for post-acute care services, and urged CMS to set clear guardrails around insurer utilization management programs and consider requiring states to collect data on Medicaid managed care plans use of prior authorization and claims denials.
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Jul. 6, 2023
HRSA Will Continue “Pausing” Planned HPSA Withdrawals Through All of 2023
On June 30, the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced it will extend through all of 2023 its “pause” in plans to withdraw a large number of federally designated Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).
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Jul. 6, 2023
Fast Facts from the WHA Information Center: Summertime Injuries
Summertime in Wisconsin is one of the best seasons because of the great weather and longer days. Outdoor activities like grilling, spending time in the pool or boating on the lake become common activities on the weekends. With more time spent outside comes an increased risk of injury.
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Jun. 29, 2023
WHA Board Receives Briefing on Advocacy Work, Policy Priorities at June Board Meeting
WHA’s Board of Directors met in Fitchburg on June 22 for a briefing on WHA’s recent advocacy work and important issues WHA is monitoring for members.
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Jun. 29, 2023
New AHA Report Shines Light on Misguided Site-Neutral Policies
A new report by the American Hospital Association takes a deeper look at how site-neutral payment policies would exacerbate losses hospitals receive under Medicare and pushes back against some of the misguided claims that have been pushed by proponents recently.
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Jun. 29, 2023
Health Care Emergency Readiness Planning: Wildfire Disaster Response
The haze and air quality alerts covering Wisconsin and a large number of other states recently from persistent Canadian wildfires is a good reminder of the role hospitals and other parts of the emergency response team play when wildfires create an emergency response event. ASPR Tracie has a new learning series on the destructive 2021 wildfire in Marshall, Colorado available as a resource to assist emergency planning.
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Jun. 29, 2023
CMS Expands Nursing Homes Ownership Transparency and Quality Data on Care Compare
On June 28, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Ser vices (CMS) published new public data on Nursing Home ownership transparency and quality at its Nursing Home Care Compare website.
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Jun. 29, 2023
WHA Health Care Leadership Academy Graduates 10 More Participants
On June 21, the cohort of 10 individuals representing 9 WHA member hospitals started off their last two days of instruction with UW School of Business Center for Professional & Executive Development (CPED) instructor Katrina Cravy.
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Jun. 29, 2023
ED2Recovery+ Program Funding Opportunity – Available Now
The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health/Wisconsin Voices for Recovery has issued its 2023 Request for Proposal (RFP) for the ED2Recovery+ Program. For an overview of the ED2Recovery+ Program, watch the ED2Recovery+ Informational Webinar Recording, which describes:
