In Illinois, provider groups are starting one of the most aggressive state-sponsored projects in which they will eventually bear all financial risk. Reform Update: Illinois tackling Medicaid with ...

Adrienne White-Faines will lead the reproductive healthcare nonprofit starting in September. She has a long career leading ...

As state representative for Illinois’ 43rd District and chair of the state’s Medicaid Working Group, I have long championed Medicaid as a cornerstone of health and dignity for millions of ...

The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services is more optimistic, estimating that about 384,000 Illinois residents will lose Medicaid, because of its efforts to help eligible people ...

Most of St. Anthony’s patients are on Medicaid, a government-run program for the poor and disabled. The hospital claimed at the time of its original suit that it was in financial distress ...

UPDATE: Hours after the Illinois House unanimously voted to pass a bipartisan Medicaid reform package yesterday, the state Senate followed suit with a 59-0 vote. S.B. 1321, which aims to improve ...

Illinois is moving thousands of children into its Medicaid managed-care program. Proponents say the approach can cut costs while increasing access to care. But after a phase-one rollout of the new ...

Health care advocates, hospital officials and people who rely on Medicaid for their medical coverage warned Illinois lawmakers Wednesday of consequences that could result from proposed cuts in ...

Illinois' Medicaid renewal rate of 90% is the highest in the nation midway through the effort to clean up the rolls post-pandemic, according to data compiled in the Kaiser Family Foundation's ...

Rebecca and Bruce Austin in central Illinois have six kids ranging in age from 4 to 22. Five kids still live at home, and all of them came to the Austins through the foster care system. All told ...