The 2025 city and county fairs and agricultural events season in Wisconsin is underway. During recent seasons, swine exhibitions at agricultural fairs and other direct or indirect exposure to swine have been associated with human infections caused by variant influenza A viruses that include influenza A(H3N2)v, A(H1N2)v, and A(H1N1)v. 

This memo announces the removal of limitations on the number of reasonable opportunity periods granted to members who must verify their U.S. citizenship, identity, or immigration status. It also announces the addition of Wisconsin’s birth records query and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program as sources of verification of U.S. citizenship that do not require an individual to also provide verification of identity. 

This memo announces the reinstatement of premiums for Medicaid Purchase Plan (MAPP) members, which were temporarily suspended during the federal public health emergency (PHE) related to COVID19. 

This operations memo provides the 2024 amounts for the spousal impoverishment community spouse income allowance minimum allocation, the spousal impoverishment dependent family member income allowance standard, and the shelter base amount.

The purpose of this memo is to communicate information about the addition of incentive funds earned for the Estate Recovery Program for counties within the Consortium under the Income Maintenance (IM) contract between the Department of Health Services (DHS) and Consortia for the period of January 1, 2024, through December 31, 2024.

This memo provides final funding notice of the base Income Maintenance (IM) Administrative Allocation for IM programs for the period January 1, 2024, through December 31, 2024 (Calendar Year 2024), for Consortia; and October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2024 (Federal Fiscal Year 24), for the tribal agencies.

This memo announces changes to policy regarding who can sign the following on behalf of incompetent or incapacitated adults:

• Medicaid and BadgerCare Plus applications and renewals
• Forms related to enrollment, disenrollment, and changes in adult home and community-based long-term care programs (Family Care, Family Care Partnership, PACE, and IRIS)

This operations memo announces the discontinuation of certain policy requirements for childless adults enrolled in BadgerCare Plus.

Starting May 1, 2024, all cases of invasive Cronobacter infections among Wisconsin infants (less than 12 months old) are reportable to DHS. This change will bring Cronobacter reportability in alignment with its status as a nationally notifiable disease.