A new Illinois law will help streamline the process for a patient without a dental plan to receive dental care.
“It’s not a separate initiative,” Erickajoy Daniels, Advocate Aurora Health’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, said in a recent interview. “It’s a strategic imperative.”
Children of parents who are uninsured, unhealthy or experience emotional stress tend to have worse health than their peers, according to a new survey from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and the Chicago Department of Public Health.
The American Medical Association’s innovation arm is launching a Medicare Advantage plan with Chicago entrepreneurs Dr. Eric Whitaker and Dr. Ken Alleyne.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois’ parent company is taking steps to integrate its medical and ancillary benefits.
Gov. JB Pritzker issued his first veto on Friday, rejecting a bill that would have prevented him from applying for federal waivers that could reduce or eliminate coverage required under the Affordable Care Act or other medical assistance programs.
The Cook County board approved a resolution last week identifying racism as a public health crisis.
Northwestern University has received a five-year, $46 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to renew its efforts to accelerate clinical and translational discoveries into applicable cures and treatments, the school recently announced.
U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Deerfield, introduced legislation last month that would extend and expand an existing visa program in an effort to increase the number of working physicians in the country.
Illinois has a lower percentage of emergency and inpatient stays that result in surprise medical bills than the national average, according to a recent report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a case from a shuttered Illinois health insurer that claims the federal government owes it millions through an Affordable Care Act program.
Illinois could do more to improve the well-being of children, according to a recent report.
A Cook County judge ruled Tuesday that Melrose Park's Westlake Hospital must remain open as the court reviews a state board's decision allowing Pipeline Health to close the facility.
Medicaid issues are taking center stage in Springfield this session, a panel of some of the state’s top healthcare lobbyists said Monday in Chicago.
Monroe County ranked as the healthiest county in the state and Vermillion County as the least healthy, according to an annual report released Tuesday.
Gov. JB Pritzker and SEIU Healthcare Illinois have reached an agreement on previously withheld rate increases for more than 40,000 Department of Human Services home care workers and child care providers.
