The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — 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 ...

A report by the Illinois Economic Policy Institute found federal budget cuts could reduce economic activity in Illinois by ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO | Facing ballooning costs for a $1,000 pill to treat hepatitis C, Illinois' Medicaid program is putting tight restrictions in place, including requiring patients to meet 25 criteria and get ...

SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) is launching new coverage for home visiting ...

Congresswoman Budzinski leads Illinois Democrats urging CMS to support Rural Health Transformation funding to improve care access and affordability in rural Illinois.

Since 2007, and in the wake of the Great Recession, an additional 10 million Americans have enrolled in Medicaid, at the same time that states’ tax revenue declined. But those long-plagued by Medicaid ...