Health Care

All of the outstanding shares of Grafton-based Cedarburg Pharmaceuticals Inc. have been acquired by Albany, N.Y.-based Albany Molecular Research Inc. for $38.2 million. AMRI also assumed $2.8 million in liabilities.

All of the outstanding shares of Grafton-based Cedarburg Pharmaceuticals Inc. have been acquired by Albany, N.Y.-based Albany Molecular Research Inc. for $38.2 million. AMRI also assumed $2.8 million in liabilities.

With less than two weeks left to sign up for coverage in the health insurance marketplace, a consortium of healthcare, community and insurance agent organizations are sponsoring digital ‘count down’ billboards in the Milwaukee area.

Insurers on the federal health insurance marketplace did not receive payment for 20 percent of plans with Jan. 1 and Feb. 1 effective dates, according to the State of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) are blocking passage of a bill that would help Wisconsin cancer patients receive chemotherapy pills.

Marshfield Clinic Health System announced last week election results for key leadership positions in the Clinic’s new governance structure.

Hospital Sisters Health System, a partial owner of Community Memorial Hospital since 2011, is looking to take full ownership of the critical access hospital.

State Medicaid director Brett Davis has resigned from the Department of Health Services for a job in the private sector.
His last day at DHS will be Friday, March 21, 2014.

A bill creating a tax credit for businesses that offer workplace wellness programs has been passed by the Wisconsin State Legislature and is on its way to being signed by Gov. Scott Walker.

With five of six months completed in the Affordable Care Act’s inaugural open enrollment period, more than 71,000 Wisconsinites have signed up for marketplace coverage, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.