The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...

Illinois faces a $239 million drop in hospital and managed care organization provider tax revenue, an important mechanism for ...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois can begin enrolling eligible members into its managed Medicaid plans after the state lifted a sanction against the insurer in late October, according to the ...

The federal government is awarding Illinois $193 million next year to support rural health care — money that’s part of the ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A coalition of Chicago-area hospitals that serve the poor called on Illinois officials to go after more federal money before cutting their Medicaid funding, a proposition dismissed by ...

Illinois’ Medicaid program has begun enrolling some 40,000 seniors and disabled individuals into private health plans provided by Aetna and IlliniCare in efforts to close the state’s deficit gap, ...

SPRINGFIELD Illinois has been awarded $193,418,216 million per year for five years through the $50 billion federal Rural Healthcare Transformation Program ...

Since 2007, and in the wake of the Great Recession, an additional 10 million Americans have enrolled in Medicaid, at the same time that states’ tax revenue declined. But those long-plagued by Medicaid ...