UChicago Medicine has opened a new $20 million outpatient care center in the city’s River East neighborhood.
Lawmakers are considering a plan to create a uniform statewide drug take-back program that would be funded and operated by drug manufacturers.
The number of members enrolled in the state’s Medicaid managed care dropped by nearly 10,000 in December.
Illinois was in the middle of the pack for having the high healthcare spending per person in a recent study that looked at cost trends for those with employer-sponsored insurance in states across the nation.
Panelists discussed what healthcare-related legislation may pop up this spring session at a panel this week convened by Health News Illinois in Springfield.
The Senate signed off this week on wage increases for certain direct care personnel.
While the deadline for federal approval is fast-approaching, lawmakers said at a Health News Illinois event Wednesday morning that they remain hopeful an agreement can be reached on the state’s hospital assessment program by next month.
Gov. JB Pritzker’s proposed budget includes nearly $500 million for health and human services - that will only be released if a new income tax model takes effect next year.
About 59 percent of federal grant dollars that flowed to Illinois last year went to Medicaid, according to a recent report from Pew Charitable Trusts.
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and the Illinois Department of Corrections have launched a pilot program intended to improve healthcare services for individuals at certain state correctional facilities.
Advocates and lawmakers unveiled a plan Tuesday morning that would make sweeping changes to how prior authorization works in Illinois.
Three Lakes Foundation and MATTER today announced the launch of a new innovation challenge focused on accelerating solutions for PF: a family of related lung diseases that causes progressive scarring of lung tissue and affects more than three million people around the world.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul has joined nine colleagues in urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to improve its proposed amendments to national standards for controlling and preventing lead in drinking water.
The bulk of Gov. JB Pritzker's plan to save $750 million over the next three years will come from healthcare savings from renegotiated contracts with state workers.
The two Illinoisans diagnosed with novel coronavirus have recovered and are no longer in home isolation, health officials announced this weekend.
Former Illinois Medicaid Director Doug Elwell has joined Health Management Associates as its new chief operating officer, the firm announced Monday.
