The Department of Healthcare and Family Services will hold a series of upcoming hearings on how it plans to create integrated health homes for the Medicaid program after the federal government signed off on its plans earlier this month.
Gov. Bruce Rauner signed legislation Friday implementing a series of changes to the Medicaid program. The omnibus package was hashed out by the same group of bipartisan lawmakers who worked on an update to the hospital program.
A state task force aimed at improving access to telemedicine has zeroed in on four categories and could take action on a list of final recommendations this week.
A federal proposal to change how much Medicare pays for clinic visits at hospitals has drawn concerns from the Illinois Health and Hospital Association.
The pediatric unit at Mercyhealth Hospital-Rockton Avenue in Rockford is now a children’s hospital.
Illinois health advocacy groups are looking to grow a collaborative aimed at improving children’s lives.
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A task force charged with recommending regulatory changes to encourage telehealth in the state’s Medicaid program considered how to boost children's mental health through school-based clinics at a Wednesday meeting.
A state board approved a handful of dialysis facilities, blocked plans for some and deferred action on others Tuesday.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed a rule it says will restore an Affordable Care Act program that shifted millions between Illinois health plans, according to a statement released Tuesday.
A plan to direct more than $260 million from the state’s hospital assessment program to hospitals that adopt a new delivery model could mean some hospitals will have to make some “serious decisions” about their future, according to a leading hospital consultant.
Illinois’ two Democratic senators voted to confirm Robert Wilkie as the secretary of veterans affairs Monday. Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin backed Wilkie with 84 other senators. Nine Democrats voted against the nomination.
The leadership shake-up at the Illinois Primary Health Care Association continued last week when its entire executive committee submitted their resignations.
Children ages 12 and older can request and receive counseling services or psychotherapy on an outpatient basis without the consent of a parent or guardian, under a law signed by Gov. Bruce Rauner Friday. It was one of several bills approved by Rauner late last week.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi called for expanding coverage through the Affordable Care Act and lambasted what she described as Republican efforts to “sabotage” the law Saturday.
Advocate Aurora Health would take on more risk and move more quickly to implement a “truly value-based healthcare system” if certain changes were made to the Stark Law, Chief Integration Officer Mike Lappin testified this week at a U.S. House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing.
The state cited 36 nursing homes for violations during the second quarter of the year, issuing nearly $1 million in fines.
