Aug. 9—SPRINGFIELD — Many people enrolled in the state's Medicaid program will soon be eligible to receive a host of nonmedical services that could improve their overall health, including housing and ...

Southern Illinois Health Care Foundation leaders worry they would have to cut services or close clinics and medical centers in the metro-east if Congress slashes billions of dollars from Medicaid, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — About 73 percent of Illinois’ Medicaid recipients remain on the rolls after the first redetermination cycle following the COVID-19 pandemic, while approximately 660,000 recipients ...

Last year, Illinois created a program offering Medicaid-like benefits to noncitizens age 65 and up who would qualify for a similar program under Medicaid but for their immigration status. This year, ...

In addition to cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid, a massive bill passed by the House on Thursday would also prohibit the health insurance program from covering gender-affirming ...

More than 47,000 Illinois residents lost Medicaid health insurance coverage this month — joining millions of people across the country losing Medicaid as states ask recipients to prove they’re still ...

Illinois’ Medicaid program will soon begin paying more to cover the cost of abortion services as the state works to bolster reproductive health access in a post-Roe v. Wade nation. Beginning Sept. 1, ...

Back in the 1990s, the state was facing a Medicaid problem similar in size and scope to the one Pat Quinn addressed in his budget speech this week. The problem, and one of the proposed solutions, ...

SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Medicaid program now covers medical procedures for people transitioning from one gender to another. The Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the state's primary ...

Many low-income adults across the nation could lose Medicaid expansion coverage under the Senate’s Obamacare replacement bill — but in Illinois those losses could come three years earlier because of a ...

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