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.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is set to roll out a revamped version of a program aimed at rooting out fraud in home health agencies - and Illinois will again be the first state it targets.
NorthShore University HealthSystem launched this week what it believes is the state’s first orthopedic and spine specialty hospital at its Skokie Hospital.
Several lawmakers are looking to change the process for closing hospitals in response to the potential shuttering of Westlake Hospital.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined 38 other attorneys general in questioning a recent draft report from a federal pain management task force.
Illinois hospitals are calling for $500 million in state capital funds for hospitals ready to transform their facilities as healthcare increasingly shifts towards outpatient care.
Many small and mid-sized business (SMB) owners are overwhelmed with administrative HR tasks. Human resources, payroll and health care benefits management can drain time and resources. Many struggle to find the right health plan for the unique needs of their employees.
