Wisconsin Covered Entities

From Appleton in the Fox Valley to Racine in Southeast Wisconsin, Ascension Wisconsin's 16 hospitals provide excellent, compassionate care to our communities and serve our communities’ most vulnerable citizens. The 340B program and the benefits these hospitals can access through the program are critical to Ascension Wisconsin's ability to continue to serve not only as community hospitals but as safety net providers.

In Milwaukee, for example, Ascension Wisconsin operates more hospitals than any other health system, and serves a disproportionately high number of patients enrolled in Medicaid, the uninsured, and the underinsured. Support from 340B helps to make supporting these vulnerable populations possible. In Fiscal year 2024, the Ascension Wisconsin 340B program benefits were $99.2 million, helping Ascension’s Wisconsin hospitals provide more than $586.8 million in community benefits. As of May of 2025, Wisconsin's Medicaid program served more than 1.2 million individuals, and nearly one-half of those enrollees are children.

Ascension’s hospitals and caregivers are continuing to make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable in the communities we are privileged to serve. Below are just a few examples of how the 340B program benefits communities across Wisconsin.

Programs enhanced by 340B benefits:

• Medication affordability program: provides financial assistance and needed medications to uninsured and impoverished patients with both free and reduced-cost medications.
• Charitable pharmacies: operates 9 Dispensary of Hope locations serving uninsured populations with free medication, including a charitable mail order pharmacy.
• Healthy lifestyle: community-based programming for children and adults focused on obesity and chronic-disease prevention through healthy foods, healthy cooking, fitness and community education.
• Meds to Beds program: allows hospitalized patients to benefit from having medications dispensed to them right at the bedside, increasing patient compliance. It also allows for further outreach of the system's medication affordability program, assuring patients can afford their treatments prior to leaving the hospital.
• Charitable clinics providing care with an interdisciplinary care team: Angel of Hope Clinic in Milwaukee and Ascension All Saints Wisconsin Avenue Clinic in Racine each serves a predominantly underserved population inducing Medicaid, underinsured and Medicare enrollees.
• Medical Mission at Home: historically held at least annually at multiple locations across the state, the event provides free medical, vision and dental services to those in need.