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Archive of 2007 Government Relations Valued Voice Articles

12-14-07:WHA, RWHC Continue Candid Dialogue with Division of Quality Assurance

12-14-07:Medicaid Funding Remains WHA's Key Issue Priority in 2008

12-14-07:Political Action Spotlight: 627 Individuals Made It Possible; Campaign Edges Over $200k - Thank You!

12-14-07:Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund Leaves Rates Alone

12-14-07:President's Column: Health Reform to Take Center Stage

12-7-07:Political Action Spotlight: 2007 Fundraising Campaign - GOAL SURPASSED, RECORD SET AGAIN!

12-7-07:Health Care Pricing Transparency Proposal Introduced

12-7-07:eHealth Board Endorses Removal of Statutory Barriers to Electronic Records

12-7-07:Guest Column: Looking Ahead to 2008 and Beyond

12-7-07:Health Care Provider Immunity Bill Receives Senate Hearing

11-30-07:WHA Seeks "Amicus" Status in Fund Action

11-30-07:Grassroots Spotlight: Nurse Leaders Meet With Rep. Terry Moulton

11-30-07:Grassroots Spotlight: Ministry Health Care Meets with Senators Lassa and Kreitlow

11-30-07:Grassroots Spotlight: Aurora-Central Region Meets With Cong. Petri, Sen. Leibham and Rep. Kestell

11-16-07:WHA Council Reflects on State Budget Process; Looks Ahead to Remainder of Legislative Session

11-16-07:Guest Column: Legislature Must Fix Medicaid Reimbursement Inequities

11-16-07:WHA Online Toolkit: Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC)

11-16-07:Guest Column: Health Insurance Premium Increases Stabilizing

11-16-07:DHFS Pay For Performance Advisory Committee

11-9-07:National Magazine Dubs Wisconsin "Health Care USA"

11-9-07:Guest Column: Legislature Needs to Pass Hospital Tax

11-9-07:Political Action Spotlight: Fundraising Campaign Update: $5,000 Needed to Reach Goal

11-9-07:Health Care Provider Immunity Bill Passes Assembly

11-9-07:President's Column: The Hospital Tax and Medicaid - What's Next?

11-2-07:Health Care Provider Immunity Proposal Poised to Advance in Assembly

11-2-07:Political Action Spotlight: Fundraising Campaign Update: $10,000 From Goal!

11/2/07 Fund Lawsuit Filed: Update

Wis. Medical Society Complaint - The Fund (10/29/07)

11-2-07:Guest Column: Medicare Recovery Audits Coming to Wisconsin Soon...Time to Prepare is NOW!

11-2-07:Wisconsin Hospitals Highlighted at U.S. Senate Finance Committee Meeting

10-26-07:State Budget Passes

10-26-07:Medical Society to File Lawsuit to Protect the IPFCF

10-26-07:Federal Issues Update: Timeline for CMS' Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) Moved Up

10-26-07:President's Column: WHA Statement Regarding Budget Compromise

10-20-07:Wisconsin Hospital Association Statement on Budget Compromise

10-19-07:Still No State Budget

10-19-07:Full Plate of Issues Discussed at WHA Board Meeting this Week

10-19-07:Governor Doyle Meets with Hospital Leaders in Milwaukee and Menasha

10-19-07:President's Column: The Time Has Come to Finish the Wis Budget

10-12-07:Republicans Poised to Reject Hospital Plan and Approve IPFCF Transfer

10-12-07:President's GMC Endorses State Hospital Tax Plan

10-12-07:President's Column: Letter to Wisconsin Legislature

10-5-07:WHA Lifts Opposition to Hospital Tax

10-5-07:IPPS Rule Now In Effect

10-5-07:IRS Tax-Exempt Bonds Compliance Check

9-28-07:Providers Avoid Workers Compensation Payment Cuts - Labor Holds Firm

9-28-07:Budget Negotiations Continue, No Deals on Health Care

9-28-07:WHA Members, Staff Meet with DHFS Deputy Secretary on Copy Fees

9-28-07:President's Column: Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund

9-28-07:Political Action Spotlight: Fundraising Campaign Update: $23,000 More in Individual Contributions Needed to Reach Goal

9-28-07:President's Federal Issues: Congress Acts on IPPS Cuts, Tamper-Resistant Pads, SCHIP

8-17-07: WHA Tops in Budget Bill Lobbying Hours

8-17-07: Know Your Legislators...Rep. Gordon Hintz (D-Oshkosh)

8-17-07: Healthy Wisconsin Concerns Continue to Grow

8-17-07: President's Column: Letter to Sen. Feingold Regarding Medicare Payment Cuts

8-17-07: Grassroots Spotlight: Divine Savior Grassroots Campaign on Injured Patients & Families Compensation Fund

8-17-07: Grassroots Spotlight: AHA Launches "My Care Counts" Online Petition

8-10-07: Recent survey on Healthy Wisconsin disputes earlier poll; WisPolitics Poll says only one-third of residents favor overhaul

8-10-07: Fundraising Campaign Update: $60,000 More in Individual Contributions Needed to Reach Goal

8-10-07: Federal Issues: CMS Cuts Hospital Payments Under Final IPPS Rule; Wisconsin Hospitals to Lose $358 Million

8-10-07: President's Column: Healthy Wisconsin

8-3-07: Public Policy Council Discussion Covers Broad Range of Topics

8-3-07: Guest Column: Senate Democrats Work to Lower Costs, Increase Access to Health Care

8-3-07: President's Column: Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law

8-3-07: Political Action Spotlight: Mercury Rising - Over $122,000 Raised to Date

8-3-07: Management Continues Push for Millions in Cuts to Hospitals

8-3-07: Federal Issues: Federal Government Action on IRS 990, IPPS, SCHIP

8-3-07: Grassroots Spotlight: Sen. Schultz Visits Grant Regional

8-3-07: WHA Unveils Grassroots Leadership Training Workshops

7-27-07: Budget Conference Committee Begins Deliberations

7-27-07: Federal Issues: Congress Releases Vastly Different Approaches to Funding SCHIP

7-27-07: Guest Column: Assembly Budget Puts "Patients First"

7-27-07: Editorial Writers Comment on Wisconsin Senate Health Plan

7-27-07: Grassroots Spotlight: Tomah Memorial Hospital Hosts Senator Vinehout

7-13-07: Assembly Passes Its Version of State Budget

7-13-07: Know Your Legislators...Rep. Kevin Petersen (R-Waupaca)

7-6-07: State Budget Advances in Senate; Assembly Continues to Craft Alternatives

7-6-07: Senate Democrats Include Massive Health Plan in State Budget

7-6-07: President's Column: Senate Democrats Health Plan

7-6-07: Grassroots Spotlight: State Representatives Tour New Children's Hospital in Marshfield

6-22-07: Assembly Speaker Huebsch, DHFS Secretary Hayden Provide Differing Perspectives on Hospital Tax at WHA Board Meeting

6-22-07: Project to Create Electronic Links Among Area Emergency Rooms and Community Clinics

6-22-07: Governor Commends Wisconsin Hospitals for Quality Achievements

6-22-07: Board Endorses Governor's eHealth Budget Provisions

6-22-07: WHEFA Board's Recent Decision: A New Agenda?

6-8-07: WHA Supports Health Coverage Expansion

6-8-07: Know Your Legislators...Rep. Ann Hraychuck (D-Balsam Lake)

6-8-07: Memo Sent to Prospective Payment System Hospitals on FY 08 IPPS Rule

6-8-07: President's Column: hospital tax letter to Sen. Decker and Rep. Rhoades

6-1-07: Wisconsin Hospitals Political Action Funds Fundraising Campaign 2007 Begins

5-25-07: WHA Board "Stays the Course" on Hospital Tax Plan

5-25-07: Know Your Legislators...Rep. Rich Zipperer (R-Pewaukee

5-25-07: Grassroots Spotlight: Representative Mary Hubler visits Spooner Health System

5-25-07: Federal Issue: Wisconsin Legislators Oppose Cuts Under CMSâ€™s Proposed IPPS Rule

5-11-07: WHA Members in Washington, DC for AHA Annual Meeting

5-11-07: Medical Record Copying Fees Advisory Group Formed

5-11-07: President's Column: Medicare Payment Cuts

5-11-07: Grassroots Spotlight: Medford Hospital Hosts Decker, Williams

5-4-07: WHA Promotes Progressive Billing Guidelines with Wisconsin Attorney General

5-4-07: WHA Advocacy Day Attracts Hundreds of Hospital Supporters to Madison

5-4-07: Joint Finance Committee Begins Work on DHFS Budget

4-27-07: Assembly Republicans Unveil Health Care Reform Agenda

4-27-07: Advocacy Day Registrations Top 500 for Second Year in a Row

4-27-07: President's Column: Cover the Uninsured Week

4-27-07: Grassroots Spotlight: Rep. Kevin Petersen Addresses Riverside Hospital Volunteers

4-27-07: Grassroots Spotlight: Volunteers From Area Hospitals Meet in Tomah

4-27-07: Legislators, Administration Hear From Hospitals During Listening Sessions

4-20-07: Wisconsin Continues to Lead on Public Reporting

4-20-07: Advocacy Day Registrations Top 400!

4-20-07: Wisconsin Hospitals Political Action Campaign Sets New Record in 2006

4-20-07: President's Column: Medicaid Myths & Facts #2

4-13-07: Legislative Leaders Confirmed for Advocacy Day

4-13-07: Hospital-Physician Leader Testifies Before Joint Finance Committee

4-13-07: President's Column: Medicaid Myths and Facts

4-13-07: Family Health Care Decision Act

4-6-07: 2 Percent: WHA Survey of Health System Finances Clears Up Inaccurate Picture of "Hospital Profits"

4-6-07: Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance Dissects State Budget

4-6-07: Attorney General Van Hollen Confirmed to Speak at Advocacy Day

4-6-07: Joint Finance Hears More Opposition to Hospital Tax

4-6-07: President's Column--Hospital "Profitability"

4-6-07: Business Day Provides Hospitals Another Opportunity to Talk With Legislators

4-6-07: Grassroots Spotlight: Boscobel Hospital Hosts Rep. Garthwaite to Discuss Hospital Tax

4-6-07: Ziegler Will Replace Retiring Justice Wilcox on Supreme Court

3-30-07: Joint Finance Committee Holds More Budget Hearings

3-30-07: Merline Joins WHA Government Affairs Team

3-30-07: Sen. Kapanke Slams Hospital Tax

3-30-07: Guest Column: Reject Doyle's PCF Proposal

3-23-07: WHA Opposes Raid on Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund

3-23-07: Columbus Community Hospital CEO Testifies at Joint Finance Hearing

3-23-07: President's Column: It's Not Just the Numbers!

3-23-07: Criminalization of Medical Errors Subject of April 27 Madison Conference

3-23-07>WHA's Workforce VP Testifies Before Assembly Public Health Committee

3-16-07: WHA Board Says..."Stay the Course"

3-16-07: New Senate Health Committee Chair Joins Public Policy Council Meeting

3-16-07: President's Column - Health Care Delivery Economics

3-9-07: Plan to Attend 2007 Advocacy Day - May 1 in Madison

3-9-07: Wisconsin Hospitals in DC to Meet With Legislators

3-9-07: President's Column - What's Become of the Tobacco Tax Money?

3-9-07: Grassroots Spotlight: Green Bay Hospitals United in Grassroots Efforts

3-9-07: Grassroots Spotlight: Hospitals Host Their Legislators

3-9-07: WHA Cosponsors "Business Day in Madison" on April 4

3-2-07: WHA Analysis Reveals Serious Flaws in Hospital Tax and Payment Plan

3-2-07: Fee Schedule Proposed for Workers Compensation Claims

3-2-07: Guest Column: "Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that man behind the tree"

3-2-07: 2007 Advocacy Day, May 1 in Madison

3-2-07: President's Column: Can We "Trust" the Trust Fund? [Part Two...Follow the Money]

2-23-07: WHA Among Top 3 Lobbying Organizations in 2005-2006 Legislative Session

2-23-07: WHA Top Priority: Hospital Tax

2-23-07: President's Column: Can We "Trust" the Trust Fund?

2-23-07: Federal Issue: Wisconsin Delegation Traveling to DC

2-23-07: Federal Issue: Union "Card Check" Legislation Moves in Congress

2-23-07: Save The Date for 2007 Advocacy Day

2-26-07: WHA Board Unanimously Opposes Hospital Tax

2-16-07: President's Message: Myth vs. Fact - Hospital Tax

2/9/07 Governor Considers Hospital Tax: Hospital CEOs Voice Concern

2/9/07 Know Your Legislators... Rep. John Nygren (R-Marinette)

2/9/07 Federal Issue: President's Proposed Budget Cuts Hit Wisconsin Hospitals Hard

2/9/07 President's Column: Hospital Tax to Bankroll Medicaid Deficit and Health Care Coverage Expansion?

2/9/07 Grassroots Spotlight: Children's Hospital Hosts Sen. Sullivan

1/5/07 Doyle Targets Health Care in Inaugural Address