The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...
SPRINGFIELD Illinois has been awarded $193,418,216 million per year for five years through the $50 billion federal Rural ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Nearly every year, Illinois lawmakers pass a package of measures dealing with the state’s Medicaid program, the joint federal and state health care program that covers low-income ...
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CHICAGO (AP) — A coalition of Chicago-area hospitals that serve the poor called on Illinois officials to go after more federal money before cutting their Medicaid funding, a proposition dismissed by ...
In addition to cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid, a massive bill passed by the House on Thursday would also prohibit the health insurance program from covering gender-affirming ...
Illinois’ Medicaid program has begun enrolling some 40,000 seniors and disabled individuals into private health plans provided by Aetna and IlliniCare in efforts to close the state’s deficit gap, ...
Since 2007, and in the wake of the Great Recession, an additional 10 million Americans have enrolled in Medicaid, at the same time that states’ tax revenue declined. But those long-plagued by Medicaid ...
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