Marely requires 24/7 care after receiving a heart transplant covered by Medicaid. The U.S. Senate is considering slashing the ...

Alleging the Trump administration wants to take health care away from people, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker this week signed a ...

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

Planned Parenthood warns of potential health center closures if Congress defunds Medicaid. In Illinois, nearly 30,000 Planned Parenthood patients rely on Medicaid for essential healthcare services.

The Illinois Association of Health Care Facilities ... will both advocate for SB 1606 and HB 2858, which calls for a Medicaid reimbursement rate increase. The bills will be amended from their ...

The state also has a “trigger” law that will take effect if Congress adjusts its reimbursement formula for the Medicaid expansion group. About 770,000 low-income people across Illinois who are ...

The forms falsely claimed certain Medicaid recipients drove themselves to medical appointments, inflating reimbursement amounts. Allegations include: • Recruiting participants via Facebook and ...

A grand jury in Merrimack County has indicted a Concord man for additional charges of Medicaid fraud in connection with alleged fake claims for medical transport services. Kyle Perkins ...

Koehler said the reimbursement increase can be accomplished without straining state resources. The increase would be paid for, he said, through the state’s nursing home bed tax — a tax levied on each ...

SPRINGFIELD — Nursing home industry officials are urging Illinois lawmakers to increase the rates they receive from the state’s Medicaid system ... homes in the form of incentives for them ...