Health Care

The federal government has met its deadlines, tested its system and collected insurance plan information critical to rolling out the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the White House and other federal officials say, despite the rumors of “train wrecks,” delays and bare-bones health care exchanges rocking Washington.

The Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative has organized a series of educational seminars focused on explaining health insurance reform guidelines to be enacted in 2014. The seminars will run throughout May and June and will be tailored toward uninsured individuals, self-employed individuals, small business owners and leaders and nonprofit executives. Each seminar covers the same material including insurance marketplaces, subsidies for purchasing insurance, and the individual mandate among other critical points.

AptarGroup Inc., a dispenser manufacturing company based in Crystal Lake, Ill., announced today it will invest $50 million in its Mukwonago manufacturing facility.

Anytime Fitness Cudahy has opened its newly expanded and remodeled facility.

Conversations with loved ones should take place throughout the year, not just during October – Breast Cancer Awareness Month – because one conversation can save a life says Nikki Panico, a breast cancer survivor and executive director of the Southeast Wisconsin Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Milwaukee-based Community Care Inc. (CCI) on Monday announced that Kenneth Munson, former regional director of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, has been named chief executive officer, effective on Monday.

I’m no stranger to breast cancer. My mother and aunt both lost their fights with breast cancer … within a month of each other. And, seven months later, at age 39, I myself was diagnosed with breast cancer during my yearly checkup – a routine mammogram.

Milwaukee-based Community Care Inc. (CCI) today announced that Kenneth Munson, former regional director of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, has been named chief executive officer, effective today.

Milwaukee-based FEI Behavioral Health, a national employee assistance program (EAP), wellness and crisis management company, announced a new partnership with Atlanta-based nonprofit family service agency Families First.

Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc., the parent company of Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Wisconsin, today announced reported first quarter net income of $885.2 million, or $2.89 per share, up from $856.5 million, or $2.53 per share, in the same period a year ago.