Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and six other attorneys general have sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its 2018 decision to rollback sodium limits and whole grain requirements for school meals.
With a rise in teenage suicide and a number of school shootings across the country, social workers are pushing to increase mental health services to children and teenagers.
The House unanimously approved a plan Thursday extending the deadline for paying free-standing psychiatric hospitals a per diem rate when a child stays beyond medical necessity.
A recent report by the Illinois Department of Public Health has found elevated rates for some types of cancer for those who lived near a Sterigenics’ sterilization facility in Willowbrook.
Planned Parenthood of Illinois is among three Illinois agencies receiving Title X federal family planning grants from the Department of Health and Human Services.
About 15 percent of Illinois patients who obtained care at an in-network hospital received an out-of-network claim, according to a recent analysis by the Health Care Cost Institute.
The state’s Medicaid managed care rolls fell in January to 2.1 million, a 1.6 percent drop from the end of 2018.
A new collaboration between Peoria, Illinois-based OSF HealthCare and Redox will allow the health system to effectively integrate pilot programs and deploy digital health solutions to improve health for OSF HealthCare communities. Redox will serve as an application layer connecting third-party technology solutions to the OSF HealthCare clinical systems. “Redox has become the gold standard […]
A statewide mandate for the number of patients that can be seen by a nurse at one time cleared its first hurdle Wednesday evening.
A plan to create a commission intended to help curtail the costs of prescription drugs failed in a House committee Wednesday, with a handful of Democrats joining Republicans against the measure.
A plan to save half a billion dollars a year on state employee health insurance has instead added millions of dollars in annual expenses without offering the promised services, according to a report released Wednesday by Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino.
A performance audit by Illinois’ top auditor criticized former Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration for its handling of a 2015 outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease that was connected to over a dozen deaths at a veterans’ home in Quincy.
The Department of Insurance would sign off on health insurance rate increases under a proposed revamp to a bill.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released $15.1 million to Illinois to help fight the opioid epidemic, according to a statement.
UnityPoint Health, the Human Service Center and Pekin’s Tazwood Center for Wellness are working together to create UnityPlace, a nonprofit aiming to create a comprehensive system of behavioral healthcare in central Illinois, according to a recent statement.
Pharmacy benefit managers would face more scrutiny under legislation unveiled Wednesday by House Majority Leader Greg Harris, D-Chicago, and Sen. Andy Manar, D-Bunker Hill.
