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State of Wisconsin Members Only: The Mayo Clinic Health System – Northland, Eau Claire, Chippewa Valley and Red Cedar providers and facilities are NOT included in the Health Tradition Health Plan network for the State of Wisconsin plan for employees and dependents in 2016.BadgerCare Plus Members: Some of the providers listed to the right may not be considered “in-network.” Check your plan’s provider directory at healthtradition.com and click on the BadgerCare Plus plan or call your member advocate at 800-545-8499.

Brian W. Rotty, Executive DirectorMartha Binn, MD, Medical Director Tiffany Gulinson, DO, Associate Medical Director Michael Eckstein, Director of Sales & MarketingKathryn Tomten, Operations DirectorDavid Weichert, Health Plan Clinical DirectorThe purpose of Healthmate is to inform and communicate with health plan members. Please submit ideas to: 1808 East Main Street, Onalaska, WI, 54650

BLACK RIVER FALLSArt of Optometry» Laura Schroeder, OD OptometryEAU CLAIREMayo Clinic Health System – Clairemont Campus» Angelica Larson, NP Allergy and ImmunologyMayo Clinic Health System – Luther Campus» Muhammad Rishi, MD Pulmonology» Saleha Chaudhry, MD Internal Medicine» Joseph Kittah, MD Pulmonology» Lang Jacobson, MD Physical Medicine/Rehab

» Scott Spritzer, DO Neurology» Pawan Karanam, MD Oncology» Amy Nikolai, PA-C Orthopedics» Michele Ries, PsyD Behavioral Health» Erin Spritzer, PA-C Orthopedics» Terri Nordin, MD Family MedicineLA CROSSEMayo Clinic Health System – Franciscan Healthcare» Justin Yamanuha, MD Ophthalmology» Anne Shandera-Ochsner, PhD Neuropsychology

Family and Children’s Center» Jay Clark, LPC Behavioral Health» Allen Holmquist, LPC Behavioral HealthMENOMONIEMayo Clinic Health System Red Cedar » Christina Andrist, DO Pediatrics» Trisha Hagene, NP Internal Medicine» Carla Carlson, MD Internal Medicine» Kalie Townsend, CNP Family Medicine

MENOMONIE AND BLACK RIVER FALLSNorthwest Counseling and Guidance ClinicsMONDOVIMayo Clinic Health System- Oakridge» Amy Bastian, PA-C Family MedicineOSSEOMayo Clinic Health System- Oakridge» Marta Lasater, MD Family MedicineREEDSBURGReedsburg Area Medical Center» Thomas Wood, MD Urology

» Gina DeGiovanni, MD Family Medicine» Elizabeth Hank, PA-C Family MedicineRICE LAKE, WIMayo Clinic Health System Northland» Nesreen Khraisha, MD Internal Medicine» Amy Muminovic, DO Family MedicineTOMAH, WIMayo Clinic Health System – Franciscan Healthcare» Tiffany Casper, DO Family MedicineVIROQUACenter Point Counseling Services Cooperative

» Katrina Johnson, LCSW Behavioral Health WINONA, MNWinona Health Services» Stephanie Frisch, PA-C Family Medicine» Ronald Hanson, MD Family Medicine» Wen-Yu Haines, MD General Surgery» Der-Chen Huang, MD Orthopedic Surgery» Rebecca Wolf, APRN, CNP Family Nurse PractitionerFamily and Children’s Center» Gail Tasch, MD Psychiatry» Brittany Thomas, LISCW Behavioral Health

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» NOTE: The providers in Hillsboro (St. Joseph’s Hospital and Clinics) can only be accessed at a St. Joseph’s Hospital or Clinic location. Health Tradition may not provide coverage by these providers at other locations.

For a current provider listing, visit healthtradition.com, or mayoclinichealthsolutions.com

to check which providers/locations are in your network.

BOSCOBELBoscobel Area Hospital and Clinics» Amy Franklin, APRN, CNP Family Nurse PractitionerCHIPPEWA FALLSMayo Clinic Health System » Kikolema Babata, MD PediatricsEAU CLAIREMayo Clinic Health System – Clairemont Campus» Anish Kadakia, MD Ophthalmology» Ronald Hessler, MD OphthalmologyMayo Clinic Health System – Luther Campus» Grant Bauste, PsyD Behavioral Health

» Karla Hegde, Psy Behavioral Health» Asegid Kebede, MD Pulmonology» Ibraheem Abbas, MD NephrologyLA CROSSEMayo Clinic Health System – Franciscan Healthcare» Haleem Rasool, MD Hematology/Oncology

ONALASKAStein Counseling and Consulting Services» Jenessa Hill, LPC Behavioral HealthRED WINGMayo Clinic Health System » John Sullivan, PA-C Physician Assistant» Paul Scanlon, MD Pulmonary Disease

Providers Leaving our Network

Providers Joining our Network

Keeping Our Athletes Safe Preventing ACL InjuriesIt’s the season for ACL injuries in young athletes. An ACL injury is the tearing of the anterior cruciate ligament inside the knee joint. ACL injuries most commonly occur during sports that involve sudden stops and changes in direction — such as basketball, hockey, football, soccer, tennis, and volleyball. To reduce your chance of an ACL injury, follow these tips:

• Improve your conditioning – Training programs which include strengthening and stability exercises, aerobic conditioning, jump training, balance, and risk-awareness training can be

effective in helping to reduce the risk of ACL injuries. • Strengthen your hamstrings, glutes and core – Female athletes in particular should make sure to strengthen their hamstring muscles as well as their quadriceps. Women tend to have stronger muscles in the front of their thighs (quadriceps) than they do at the back of their legs (hamstrings). The hamstrings help prevent the shinbone from moving too far forward during activities, straining the ACL. Strong gluteal and core musculature help resist something called dynamic valgus instability of the leg. This valgus instability or “knock-kneed” position places the knee at greater risk for injury.• Use proper techniques – If your sport involves jumping, learn how to land safely. Studies have shown that if your knee collapses inward when you land from a jump, you are more likely to sustain an ACL injury. Technique training, along with strengthening of some of the hip muscles, can help to reduce this risk.

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Take Care of Your Heart!Women: Do You Know The Warning Signs?It’s National Heart Month and a perfect time to support the American Heart Associa-tion’s campaign for heart health. More women die of cardiovascular disease than from the next four causes of death combined, including all forms of cancer. But 80 percent of cardiac events in women could be prevented if women made the right choices for their hearts involving diet, exercise and abstinence from smoking. Make it your mission to learn all you can about heart attacks. Don’t become a statistic.

Recognize these Heart Attack Signs» Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center of your chest. which lasts more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back.» Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach.» Shortness of breath with or without chest discomfort.» Other signs such as breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or lightheadedness.» As with men, women’s most common heart attack symptom is chest pain or discomfort. But women are somewhat more likely than men to experience other

common symptoms, particularly shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, and back or jaw pain.

If you have any of these signs, don’t wait more than five minutes before calling for help. Call 9-1-1 and get to a hospital right away. For more information, contact your primary health care provider or Cardiology Services at 608-392-9862 or 800-362-5454, ext. 29862.

Heather Mpemwangi, NPMayo Clinic Health System-

Franciscan Healthcare in La Crosse

Go Red for

Women

Jacob Erickson, D.O.Board Certified in Family Medicine & Sports MedicineMayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare in Onalaska

LA CROSSE TO RED WINGMayo Clinic Health System – Franciscan Healthcare toMayo Clinic Health System – Red Wing» Brian Proctor, MD, Psychiatry

Providers on the Move

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Team registration opens Monday, February 15, for the area’s only dragon boat festival.This year’s Big Blue Dragon Boat Festival is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, July 15-16 at Copeland Park in La Crosse. The festival is a fresh and exciting event promoting community health and teamwork while also raising awareness for breast cancer. Teams race head to head on the Black River along Copeland Park.

So much more than an athletic event, the Big Blue Dragon Boat Festival has quickly infused our community with energy and excitement by focusing on fun, fitness and teamwork. This unique event attracts nearly 2,000 paddlers, volunteers and spectators of all ages each year who choose to come together to support a great cause: celebrating breast cancer survivorship.

Since 2013, this event has raised more than $260,000, with proceeds supporting patient programs and services at the Center for Breast Care at Mayo Clinic Health System - Franciscan Healthcare.

It’s Time!Register Your Teams for the Big Blue Dragon Boat Festival

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Tomorrow’s technology todayNew Linear Accelerator Takes Precise Aim at Cancer

If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with cancer, you want the very latest technological advances. The Cancer Center at Mayo Clinic Health System – Franciscan Healthcare now has an advanced linear accelerator, the newest and most precise way to deliver radiation therapy. It is the only one of its kind in the Coulee Region. A linear accelerator provides powerful technology to accurately destroy cancer cells while minimizing exposure to surrounding healthy tissue. It is game-changing technology in the fight against cancer.

» Powerful beams of radiation destroy cancer cells – This powerful technology uses noninvasive tumor-destroying beams of radiation to pinpoint cancer cells. When the very precise beams hit the cancerous cells, the cells’ ability to reproduce is compromised and they eventually die which causes the tumor to shrink.

» Tailoring the treatment to your type of cancer – The linear accelerator rotates around your body to deliver radiation therapy from any angle. The advanced imaging allows doctors to tailor treatments specifically to each patient’s particular type of cancer including some of the more complex locations like the head and neck, lungs, breast, abdomen, and liver. Even tumors that move (for example, those in the lungs) can be precisely targeted. Respiratory gating technology gives your doctor the ability to synchronize radiation beams with your breathing; therefore, doctors can treat a moving lung tumor as if it were standing still.

» Powerful, precise and accurate means better results – The system provides real-time imaging which allows your doctor to direct higher doses of radiation with greater accuracy. That precision helps protect nearby organs and healthy tissues from unnecessary radiation.

» Choose Mayo Clinic for Radiation Oncology – Mayo Clinic doctors and other technologists develop an individual-ized plan of care for each patient. This plan is created in partnership with each patient ensuring awareness of the full range of cancer treatment options available. As part of the cancer team, our Mayo Clinic Radiation Oncologists in La Crosse have routine weekly patient chart reviews with their Rochester Radiation Oncology colleagues. Mayo Clinic has a full range of cancer treatment options, and recommendations are based on an individualized assessment by your radia-tion oncologist. Mayo Clinic recently introduced its Proton Beam Therapy Program in June of 2015 in its Rochester loca-tion. Proton Beam Therapy offered in Rochester, MN, will be the best option for certain patients and tumor types while others may benefit from radiotherapy options in La Crosse, WI. Talk with your doctor to find out what cancer treatment is right for you or your loved one.

Supporting Healthy LifestylesYou Can Earn up to $200 in 2016!Better health, and a rebate – Health Tradition supports your healthy lifestyle with rebates for good nutrition, fitness, managing your weight and even learning how to manage stress in your life – some of the steps toward a lifetime of good health. This rebate is our way of cheering you on.

Get started now – As part of the Health Tradition Health Plan, employer group member households can receive the Eat Well Move More rebate for a portion of their costs of either a produce share from Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms, their fees for fitness center memberships, lifestyle and weight management programs such as A New Me or Weight Watchers, or a 12-day health focused camp for kids. Up to $200 total rebate may be earned per primary member household! Visit Eat Well Move More at healthtradition.com for program details. Browse through the rebate options and choose the rebate you like best. Then, send us the rebate form and receipts (up to $200) for your healthy choices.

To get started, complete your Health Assessment on the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Online portal at healthtradition.com.This health assessment helps you identify your health risks and create a wellness plan to get you on track. It connects your health information – like blood pressure and cholesterol numbers – with things you do every day. To make it even more useful, bring both the health assessment report and your results into your appointments with your primary care provider.

Women’s Health RightsUnder the Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act, group health plans that provide coverage for mastectomies are also required to cover reconstructive surgery and breast prosthesis (such as implants) following a mastectomy. Under this law, members of Health Tradition Health Plan receive coverage for the following mastectomy-related procedures:

» Reconstruction of the breast on which the mastectomy was performed» Surgery and reconstruction of the unaffected breast to produce a symmetrical appearance» Breast prosthesis (artificial substitute)» Treatment for physical complications of all stages of the mastectomy,

including lymphedema

For more information, call Customer Service: 1-877-832-1823.

Calling all Mayo Clinic Health System PatientsAre you proud of your home for health care? Do you want to help others learn about the great programs and services offered in your community? If so, please consider becoming a Mayo Clinic Health System Maven. The Mavens are a fun group of local women who serve as brand ambassadors for Mayo Clinic Health System – Franciscan Healthcare programs and services, and provide valuable insight back to the organization.As a Mavens member you would enjoy: » A one-year commitment that will expose you to new products, services and ideas» Gathering with other Mavens for sneak peeks and idea sharing» Informational messages shared with you via a closed Facebook group» Sharing information about our organization with your friends, co-workers and family» Invitations to community events To learn more about the Mavens program, contact the Marketing Communications Department at 608-392-8555 or email LAFHMavens@mayo.edu.

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