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Change Healthcare service outage

Due to a recent cybersecurity issue with a health care information technology company, a system some pharmacies use to process prescriptions is temporarily offline. If you go to one of these pharmacies, you may experience a delay in filling your prescription. Learn more about the outage.

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As a BadgerCare Plus or other Wisconsin Medicaid member, you must update your information with the state each year so we can make sure you are still eligible for benefits.

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We recently updated the look of our verification checklist and

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Majority of debtors to US hospitals now people with health insurance | US healthcare

People with health insurance may now represent the majority of debtors American hospitals struggle to collect from, according to medical billing analysts.

This marks a sea change from just a few years ago, when people with health insurance represented only about one in 10 hospital bills considered “bad debt”, analysts said.

“We always used to consider bad debt, especially bad debt write-offs from a hospital perspective, those [patients] that has the ability to pay but doesn’t,” said Colleen Hall, senior vice-president for Kodiak Solutions, a billing, accounting and consulting firm that works closely with hospitals and performed the analysis.

“Now,

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California becomes first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented immigrants

California will welcome the new year by becoming the first state to offer health insurance for all undocumented immigrants.

Starting Jan. 1, all undocumented immigrants, regardless of age, will qualify for Medi-Cal, California’s version of the federal Medicaid program for people with low incomes.

Previously, undocumented immigrants were not qualified to receive comprehensive health insurance but were allowed to receive emergency and pregnancy-related services under Medi-Cal as long as they met eligibility requirements, including income limits and California residency in 2014.

In 2015, undocumented children were able to join Medi-Cal under a bill signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown. In 2019,

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