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.

Illinois is facing a Medicaid funding crisis on numerous fronts, with congressional Republicans now working in committee to solidify as much as $880 billion in cuts that a Washington think tank ...

An Illinois law that would automatically initiate massive cuts to Medicaid funding could derail health care in the state if threatened federal cuts to the program come to pass, without legislators ...

Potential cuts to Medicaid could significantly impact Illinois residents who rely on the program for healthcare and support services. Over 3.4 million Illinoisans, or one-quarter of the state's ...

Larry McCulley, president and CEO of Southern Illinois Health Care Foundation, discusses his concerns about possible Medicaid cuts during a news conference at SIHF Cahokia Heights Health Center on ...

After the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services ... Commission or any other “state agency that administers any part of Medicaid” “may not conduct an ex parte renewal of a recipient’s ...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill — Federal, state and local leaders came together Saturday to discuss the importance of protecting Medicaid and Social Security in southern Illinois. Congressman Raja ...

The for-profit insurance companies running Illinois Medicaid collected hundreds of millions of dollars in extra profits during the COVID-19 pandemic — much of it for services never provided to ...

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 ...

"Medicaid stays or goes as the program that we've know it right now." Chapman was among nearly a dozen people who spoke Wednesday to an Illinois House budget committee that oversees spending for ...