Illinois faces a $239 million drop in hospital and managed care organization provider tax revenue, an important mechanism for ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Better Government Association is investigating one of Illinois' largest expenses -- the Medicaid health program. There are three million Medicaid Recipients in Illinois, including ...

ILLINOIS (WCIA) — The Governor’s office announced Monday that JB Pritzker signed a variety of bills, ranging from an expedited FOID card process, changes to the Illinois Medicaid program and the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WREX) — Medicaid is marking its 60th anniversary this month, part of the Great Society programs put in place by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Illinois' Department of Healthcare and ...

Cook County Health and state officials are starting off the new year by planning to get ahead of 2027, when federal policies threaten to decimate Medicaid rolls, with as many as 360,000 Illinoisans in ...

The federal government is awarding Illinois $193 million next year to support rural health care — money that’s part of the ...

In addition to cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid, a massive bill passed by the House on Thursday would also prohibit the health insurance program from covering gender-affirming ...

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn released next fiscal year’s budget, which will include roughly $2.7 billion in cuts to the state’s Medicaid program, according to a Chicago Tribune report. Gov. Quinn did not ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A coalition of Chicago-area hospitals that serve the poor called on Illinois officials to go after more federal money before cutting their Medicaid funding, a proposition dismissed by ...

SPRINGFIELD — Nearly every year, Illinois lawmakers pass a package of measures dealing with the state’s Medicaid program, the joint federal and state health care program that covers low-income ...

SPRINGFIELD Illinois has been awarded $193,418,216 million per year for five years through the $50 billion federal Rural ...

Starting January 2026, the program serves 9,000 Aetna Better Health of Illinois Medicaid members statewide with a ...