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Author: Ryan Voyles

Review board approves UChicago Medicine’s plan for $815 million cancer center

The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board signed off Tuesday on an $815 million plan by University of Chicago Medicine to establish a freestanding cancer center on Chicago’s south side.

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Cook County medical equipment company owner, biller convicted of defrauding Medicaid program

The owner of a Cook County medical equipment company and its biller have been convicted with defrauding Illinois out of roughly $685,000 in Medicaid funds, Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced last week.

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Illinois receives over $1 billion to support high-speed broadband access

Illinois will receive more than $1 billion in federal funds to expand broadband internet, a step Gov. JB Pritzker reiterated Monday is vital to improving healthcare access.

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Pritzker defends proposals to rein in cost of Medicaid-like program for undocumented individuals

Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday defended his administration’s recently unveiled proposals to help reduce the costs of a program that provides Medicaid-like coverage for undocumented individuals.

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Audit: $1.2 million spent on ineligible individuals in All Kids

Between 2018 and 2020, nearly $1.2 million was spent on 11,011 services for individuals in the All Kids health insurance program that were over the allowable age for coverage, according to a report released last week by the Auditor General’s office.

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Becerra visits Metro East to mark first anniversary of overturning of Roe

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra stopped in the Metro East last week to highlight the discrepancy of state laws one year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.

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IPHA’s Tom Hughes talks rebuilding trust in public health, building up community health workers

As public health agencies enter a post-pandemic world, Illinois Public Health Association Executive Director Tom Hughes said officials will have to put in the work to rebuild trust in their communities. 

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Raoul joins FTC lawsuit challenging potential pharmaceutical merger

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said Thursday that Illinois will join the Biden administration in a legal challenge to block biopharmaceutical company Amgen from acquiring Horizon Therapeutics in a nearly $28 billion deal.

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Duckworth, Underwood introduce plan to further support maternal care at VA

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Naperville, joined colleagues last week on a plan to improve maternal care at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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