Author: Tim Stumm

The Medicaid reforms outlined in Gov. Scott Walker's budget are a "necessary step" to slow expenditures, Claire Yunker, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health Services said Monday. (WHN, 2/10)

Guy Boulton of the Journal Sentinel reports: "One day after Monica Hebl of Burleigh Dental in Milwaukee returned from a nine-day dental mission to Haiti last month, she saw a child with several serious infections who needed to have four teeth pulled. Some of child's teeth were black...The child's dental condition was symptomatic of a problem that doesn't seem to be getting much better: Scant progress has been made in improving access to dental care among low-income people in Wisconsin." (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 2/10)

Kevin Moore is the state's new Medicaid director, Gov. Scott Walker announced Monday. (WHN, 2/10)

Exact Sciences and Mayo Clinic plan to expand their collaboration beyond colorectal cancer to address other diseases within the gastrointestinal tract. (WHN, 2/9)

The Wisconsin Health Information Organization could lose nearly half of its operating funds if a budget proposal to eliminate an assessment on physicians is approved. (WHN, 2/6)