Fueled by a shift to value-based care, house calls are making a comeback.
A bill to raise the smoking age in Illinois to 21 easily passed the House Tuesday afternoon.
Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago plans to build a $27.5 million primary care and outpatient services center in Skokie.
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Illinois Valley Community Hospital in Peru has entered a preliminary agreement to join St. Margaret’s Hospital in Spring Valley and form a regional health network.
Lawmakers unveiled a slate of bills Tuesday morning aimed at reforming how managed care organizations operate in the state.
A state board put on hold a proposed surgery center from Quincy Medical Group during a contentious Tuesday meeting.
Elmhurst Hospital’s Nurse Residency Program has been accredited with distinction as a Practice Transition Program by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation.
Nichi-Iko Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. ("Nichi-Iko") and Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Nichi-Iko Group Company ("Sagent"), a leader of specialty pharmaceutical products with an emphasis on the injectable market, today announced that Sagent has acquired an FDA-approved manufacturing site in Raleigh, North Carolina, from Xellia Pharmaceuticals ("Xellia"). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Dr. Mark Rosenblatt has been named dean of the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago.
Insurers would have to pay for treatments for people with Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses under a plan being discussed in the House.
Lawmakers questioned whether more oversight is necessary of pharmacy benefit managers at a three-and-a-half hour joint meeting of the House Prescription Drug Affordability and Accessibility and Insurance committees Friday in Chicago.
The Illinois Association of Medicaid Health Plans published a comprehensive billing guide this week in an effort to reduce claim denials and improve service to Medicaid patients.
Chicago-based Oak Street Health is finding true value in value-based care.
Public colleges and universities in Illinois would be required to establish an expert panel to address mental health issues on campus under a bill approved Thursday morning by a House committee.
Planned Parenthood of Illinois wouldn't be able to provide care under a federal family planning grant program if a new federal rule goes into effect barring those receiving money from referring patients for abortions in most cases.
A sponsor for a plan to allow long-term care facilities to be exempted from the state’s expansion of Medicaid managed care said it has become necessary because the current system is not working.
