Nursing home industry officials are urging Illinois lawmakers to increase the rates they receive from the state’s Medicaid system, arguing the current rates are outdated and forcing many facilities ...

Congress has proposed cuts to Medicaid to reduce federal spending. However, this leaves more than 3.4 million Illinoisans at ...

The current Medicaid reimbursement rate for support services reflects the cost of a skilled nursing facility in 2017, even though the cost of living has increased 35%.

States that were once reluctant to expand Medicaid now have their state budgets tied to the fate of the program by ...

Expansions to Medicaid because of the Affordable Care Act and COVID-19 have increased the program in Illinois as Congress ...

Intellectual and developmental disability service organizations are bracing for potential cuts to Medicaid and Medicare from ...

For months, the bills have gone unpaid. Local construction firms helped build an on-site behavioral treatment center at ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed new legislation mandating insurance coverage for all colonoscopies for patients who present symptoms of colon cancer or have a preexisting colon condition. But how ...

On March 14, 2025, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled en banc (i.e., in a decision by the full court) that a Chicago hospital cannot sue ...

At issue is whether a state — in this case, South Carolina — can remove Planned Parenthood clinics from its state Medicaid ...

Of that total, 44% of Medicaid recipients are children, 9% are seniors and 7% are adults with disabilities, according to the ...