Cook County Health and state officials are starting off the new year by planning to get ahead of 2027, when federal policies ...

Cook County health officials say they have fielded calls from residents who wrongly think they are no longer eligible or that ...

HHS announced that Illinois will be the first state to provide an extension of Medicaid coverage for new mothers throughout the entire first year after delivery. According to the April 12 announcement ...

One of the new laws requires insurance companies to cover brand-name drugs when generics are unavailable due to shortages.

President Trump’s new tax and spending package could spell the end of Medicaid coverage for 300,000 Illinois residents. That estimate comes from Governor JB Pritzker, who urged Republican members of ...

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 ...

Hundreds of new laws will take effect in Illinois at the start of the new year, but there are some you might want to pay ...

A centerpiece of President Donald Trump's tax bill would make millions of Medicaid recipients work, volunteer or study to maintain their publicly financed health insurance. Republicans say the work ...

The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services has launched new Medicaid coverage of home visiting services for pregnant and parenting customers. Covered prenatal home visits include health ...

Congress is considering a massive federal budget cut that would gut Medicaid by at least $800 billion over the next decade — a move that would devastate healthcare access, eliminate jobs, and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — State officials are on track to shut down a program at the end of June that provides publicly funded health care coverage to more than 30,000 non-U.S. citizens in Illinois, ...

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation expected to increase the number of adults enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program by 342,000 by 2017. State lawmakers enacted the measure as part of the ...