Legislation intended to create more transparency for consumers around prescription drug prices passed the House Friday.
The Illinois House approved an amended plan Thursday establishing regulations on pharmacy benefit managers, a key priority of the state's progressive caucus.
People protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and permanent legal residents would be eligible to receive Medicaid benefits under legislation proposed Thursday by members of the Illinois Progressive Caucus.
The Department of Insurance would have the authority to approve or deny proposed health insurance rate increases under a plan approved Thursday by the House.
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Josh Evans took the helm of the Illinois Association of Rehabilitation Facilities last April, after 15 years of leading its legislative efforts.
Chicago’s Thorek Memorial Hospital plans to purchase nearby Methodist Hospital of Chicago for $22.5 million.
Department of Human Services Secretary-designate Grace Hou called for more staff and further changes to existing systems to help address the state's Medicaid backlog at a hearing Tuesday.
A Cook County judge has issued a temporary restraining order that will keep Melrose Park’s Westlake Hospital open until May 1, the day after the state’s Health Facilities and Services Review Board is scheduled to decide its fate.
CHICAGO – Oak Street Health, a network of centers that provide innovative primary care services to Medicare recipients, will bring a uniquely holistic healthcare option to Flint, Michigan with two […]
Clear Spring Health has announced they plan to acquire and re-capitalize Medicare insurer Community Care Alliance of Illinois.
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza has suspended $5.7 million in payments to the vendor of an online state-employee health insurance program after a recent audit found a series of costly errors in the project’s creation and subsequent rollout.
The state's Medicaid program will start covering gender reassignment surgeries, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Friday afternoon.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation Sunday that will make Illinois the latest state to raise its smoking age to 21.
CHICAGO— As Americans celebrate the ninth anniversary of passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law announced today that GetCareIllinois.org, a website it established […]
The House has approved a plan that would extend the All Kids program to 2024.
A city of Chicago committee is planning to take up an ordinance Monday that would require employers to schedule workers two weeks in advance and pay them for last-minute changes. The city council may then take up the measure at its Wednesday meeting.
