Illinois law requires the state to withdraw from the expansion program if federal reimbursement falls below 90%. Some 770,000 ...
Illinois spent about $815 million on the Medicaid expansion program during the last fiscal year, HFS says. The feds paid out $7.34 billion because, as noted above, they pick up 90% of the total tab, ...
Gov. Pritzker blasted the Trump administration, saying the federal government lied to state officials that the freeze would affect Medicaid.
Illinois and other states have been shut out of the Medicaid system due to an order from President Donald Trump to temporarily freeze federal funds while the government conducts a spending review. A ...