About 770,000 Illinoisans would lose their Medicaid coverage if President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration makes cuts to the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion.
An advisory council charged with proposing Medicaid financing models for expensive sickle cell disease therapies and other high-cost drugs and treatments signed off last week on a list of recommendations for policymakers.
The University of Chicago Medicine’s Comprehensive Cancer Center will receive nearly $3 million through two federal grants to expand programs that strive to increase diversity and equity in the cancer research field.
North Chicago-based AbbVie will pay $200 million to acquire Wisconsin’s Nimble Therapeutics.
Springfield Clinic has announced that CEO Ray Williams will retire at the end of the year.
Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday threw his support behind state legislation to regulate THC and CBD products.
Health News Illinois convened a panel of experts this week in Chicago to discuss the food-as-medicine movement.
Sinai Chicago on Thursday unveiled an expansion of behavioral health services at Holy Cross Hospital on the city’s south side.
Illinois’ House delegation mostly split on party lines when the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday advanced a national defense funding bill that includes a provision banning a military health program from covering gender-affirming care for service members’ transgender children.
Using healthy foods to help lower the risk of chronic conditions and address costly care has helped spur the food-as-medicine movement, panelists said during a Health News Illinois event Wednesday.
Small business employees in Illinois pay more for their health insurance and have higher deductibles than workers at large companies, according to a report released by The Commonwealth Fund Tuesday.
Eighteen Illinois hospitals received high marks for maternity care from U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday.
Meridian Health Plan of Illinois is set to drop Northwestern Medicine from its Medicaid network.
Chicago’s pilot program to send emergency responders to people experiencing a mental health crisis has shown “promising” results, though some interagency challenges must be addressed to improve outcomes, according to a report published last week by the University of Chicago.
The first research from the Chicago biomedical research hub backed by Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, was published last week.
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living said Monday it will affiliate with the Health Care Council of Illinois after terminating its agreement with the Illinois Health Care Association.
