Wisconsin hospitals sue patients over debt — even during pandemic
Apr. 1, 2020
Life in Wisconsin has been transformed by COVID-19, yet firms representing health systems continued to sue patients over medical debt.
Life in Wisconsin has been transformed by COVID-19, yet firms representing health systems continued to sue patients over medical debt.
Our loss is that we need more empathy in this world, not less. That’s the lesson Lisa taught me and the legacy she leaves behind. She’s everything I could have wanted in a sister.
While the state is much better prepared to handle economic turmoil than it was during the Great Recession, current reserves and coming federal aid of some $1.9 billion may not be enough to manage a prolonged downturn, state and local finance experts say.
Facing an economic downturn of stunning speed and unknown length, the state of Wisconsin’s finances is much stronger than in 2007, before the last recession.
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps through Wisconsin, closing schools and businesses and testing the state’s health care workforce, many people wonder how they can help — beyond staying at home to help “flatten the curve” of new infections.
Paul Harold Zimmerman, my wife’s father, was a simple and wonderful man. Though Grandpa is gone, he will always be in our hearts.
Gov. Tony Evers issued an order Friday, March 27, relaxing a range of rules governing Wisconsin’s health care workforce — an effort to maximize the number of doctors, nurses and physician assistants available to help during the all-hands-on-deck coronavirus pandemic.
As Americans struggle to cope with the spread of COVID-19, they will also need to brace themselves for “disaster fraud” — those cons that rely on post-catastrophe chaos to separate people from their money.
Wisconsin’s physician assistants are calling on Gov. Tony Evers to change regulations, allowing them to help during an all-hands-on-deck public health crisis.
Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. chief Missy Hughes says agency staff are “working through the process” of determining which businesses are essential after a spike in related web traffic contributed to the agency’s site crashing.
34 Schroeder Ct., Suite 220
Madison, WI 53711
(608) 283-7620