About 3.9 million Illinoisans are enrolled in Medicaid. Of that total, 44% of Medicaid recipients are children, 9% are seniors and 7% are adults with disabilities.

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

Illinois disability advocates brace for Medicaid cuts that could jeopardize services for vulnerable residents.

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

CNC's Meridian Health Plan wins a D-SNP contract in Illinois, expanding enhanced managed care for Medicare-Medicaid-eligible ...

Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC), a leading healthcare enterprise committed to helping people live healthier lives, announced today that its subsidiary, Meridian Health Plan of Illinois, Inc. (Meridian ...

Musk’s threat to safety net programs comes as Republican lawmakers prepare to slash $880 billion from Medicaid, the government’s health insurance program for the poor, specifically so that Tru ...

The federal government will shut down if a funding bill is not passed by the end of Friday. Illinois has over 40,000 federal civilian employees who could be working with pay, working without pay ...

To prevent a total collapse of the U.S. dollar and give the American people the opportunities they deserve, lawmakers must reform Medicaid. To do anything less borders on malfeasance. While the ur ...

By Margot Sanger-Katz I cover health care. Republican leaders in Congress have directed the committee that oversees Medicaid to cut $880 billion from the next budget. They say these cuts aren’t ...