Author: Tim Stumm

Technology, increased reimbursement and healthcare transformation are among the areas that Illinois healthcare providers and payers would like to see prioritized with unallocated dollars from the latest federal COVID-19 relief package. 

The state is set to expand a care coordination program for residents enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid on July 1.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has joined nearly two dozen colleagues in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to support the federal government's prohibition on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chicago is averaging fewer than 100 daily cases of COVID-19 for the first time since the pandemic started, the city’s top health official said Tuesday.

Illinois has chosen Virginia-based CNSI to help modernize its Medicaid processing system, the company announced Tuesday.

Chicago plans to follow the rest of Illinois and fully reopen next week, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday.

Chicago’s mHub incubator will partner with Baxter and Edward-Elmhurst Health Venture Capital to launch a new program to help support medtech companies. 

Illinois entered the "bridge" phase of Gov. JB Pritzker’s reopening plan Friday, with the potential for the state to fully reopen in four weeks.