State might drop HMO contracts - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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In an interview with The Business Timberlake said department officials are unhappy with the performance of the sevenm HMOs under contract with the statr to provide health insurance coverage tothe 165,00 0 Milwaukee County residents enrolled in the state’x BadgerCare plans, which provide health insurancs to low-income people. Includedx in BadgerCare are people eligiblefor Medicaid, the state-federal healtb insurance plan for the poor and people with Timberlake’s department is evaluating a proposa l to end contracting with multiple HMOs in favort of bidding out a single contract with one HMO or healtg insurance company.
“We’ve looked at what’s going on and we’re not only dissatisfies with the present, but have doubts the futurd will beany different,” Timberlake said. “We will eithed go with a different mode or fundamentally change theway we’re doinyg business. Either way, it’s going to feel like a significanty change to many of thecurrenr participants,” referring to the