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DHS Announces Innovative Medicaid Housing Benefit
Starting February 1, 2025, Wisconsin will launch a new initiative to provide housing support services to Wisconsin Medicaid members experiencing housing insecurity who are also affected by substance use or mental health conditions. Wisconsin is one of the first states...
DHS Quarterly Report to JFC on Opioid Settlement Funds Allocated to State
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is required to required to file quarterly reports with the Joint Committee on Finance on their progress investing the opioid settlement funds allocated to the state. On September 30, 20204, DHS submitted their Fiscal Year...
WisPolitics.com: Joint Finance Reworks $36 Million Plan for Opioid Money
On May 7, 2024, the Joint Finance Committee reworked the Evers administration’s $36 million plan for opioid settlement funds in the upcoming fiscal year to send more money to capital projects, medication assisted treatment and law enforcement, among other things. In...
Mandatory Reporting for Counties on Opioid Litigation Settlement Submitted to JCF and DOJ on May 1
The 71 counties and 16 municipalities participating in the settlements with the various defendants in the opioid litigation were required under Wis. Stat. sec. 165.12(4)(c) to submit a report of receipts and expenditures annually by May 1. Please note that the...
KFF Health News Publishes Database on Settlement Funds for States and Counties
KFF Health News recently published a database that lets you look up how much settlement money your state, county, or city has received so far and expects in the future. You can watch a short video here on how it works here. We also held a webinar to teach local...
Successful 4th Opioid Abatement Summit Held in Wisconsin Rapids
In order to continue the conversation on opioid abatement efforts, the WCA Ad Hoc Task Force on Opioid Abatement Strategies held their 4th Opioid Abatement Summit on March 20, 2024 in Wisconsin Rapids at Hotel Mead. See photos from the event here. For questions,...
NACo Brief: Opioids: How Settlement Dollars Advance City and County Opioid Abatement
Building on a strong history of collaboration, including the National City-County Task Force on Opioids, NACo and the National League of Cities examined preliminary data on the distribution of opioid settlement dollars across cities, counties and states. This brief...
NOAT II Reporting: Note Deadline of March 1, 2024
For information relative to reporting the expenditure of proceeds from the NOAT II revenues (Mallinckrodt bankruptcy) received in 2023, click here. The packet includes information surrounding the online portal for reporting, the amounts received by each entity and...
Overdose Aid Kit (O.A.K.S.) Resources Now Online
Overdose Aid Kits, or O.A.Ks, are boxes that include the lifesaving drug Narcan, information on how to administer the drug in an emergency, and other information and resources for those impacted by the opioid epidemic. In June 2020, Serve You Rx worked with a...
3rd Opioid Abatement Summit Resources Now Online
The 3rd Opioid Abatement Summit was held January 12, 2023 in Wisconsin Rapids. Presentation materials from the event are now online and can be found here. For questions, please contact WCA Government Affairs Associate Chelsea Fibert at 866.404.2700.