UnityPoint Health is entering into negotiations with providers Human Service Center and Tazwood Center for Wellness to create a new behavioral health organization based in central Illinois.
OSF Ventures is investing in Gauss Surgical, the developer of a new technology that helps surgeons and other clinicians estimate blood loss in real time.
Sinai Health System is closing Touhy Health Center, which houses the system’s refugee screening and clinic programs, at the end of the year. The reason: Its patient base has plummeted as a result of changes in federal immigration policy.
Advocate Children’s Hospital, NorthShore University HealthSystem and the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital are teaming up on pediatric care.
NextLevel Health Partners, Inc., a Medicaid managed care company, today announced an innovative partnership with NowPow, a Chicago-based health technology company, to better manage and address the social determinants that […]
HSHS Holy Family Hospital continues to seek ways to allow area residents to get advanced specialty care close to home. One of the latest steps is the hospital’s acquisition of […]
President Donald Trump's administration took another swipe at the Affordable Care Act Monday, announcing increased flexibility for states wanting to reshape their ACA marketplaces and raising the stakes for governor races across the country.
President Donald Trump’s administration wants more flexibility around employer-based health-related spending accounts, proposing new regulation that would allow workers to use the money to pay for coverage on the individual market.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital will provide telestroke services to four Franciscan Health hospitals in northwest Indiana under a new partnership announced Monday. Dr. Kevin Jackson, a Northwestern Medicine neurosurgeon, is also now employed at Franciscan Health Crown Point.
The Illinois Department of Public Health recently released a report detailing statewide trends in maternal mortality. The report, which is the first of its kind from the state, found that 73 Illinois women died on average within one year of pregnancy each year. It also found that black women were six times as likely to die of pregnancy-related conditions as white women.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has designated two Illinois Medicare Advantage plans as low performing for 2019. Open enrollment for Medicare Advantage plans began last week. CMS released their star rankings earlier in the month, which rates plans on their quality.
The Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago has received $4.4 million in funding from the federal government for HIV/AIDS care, prevention and education in Illinois and nine other Midwest states.
U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Evanston, wants to know how major pharmaceutical companies are spending tax breaks they received under the new tax law and whether they’re going to use them to bring down drug prices.
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Riverside Healthcare and Iroquois Memorial Hospital in Watseka have signed a non-binding letter to explore a merger. No timeline has been set, but the due diligence process and review by regulatory bodies could conclude by the first quarter of 2019, according to a statement.
A pair of Illinois-based risk pools are suing dozens of manufacturers, distributors, professional associations and prescribers for damages caused by the overprescribing of opioids.
The state’s Medicaid managed care rolls dipped slightly in August, falling 1 percent to 2,223,989.
