Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services is the primary administrator of the state’s Medicaid program. (File) A ...

Providers say $193 million Illinois will receive in federal grants will cover important updates for rural hospitals, but ...

Across Illinois, millions of people are anxiously awaiting the next move on a bill that would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid across the country. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” ...

After more than a year of digging, Statehouse candidate Bailey Templeton’s most public records collection shows 1,085 Illinois children under 18 without SSNs had Medicaid bills of $66 million in 2025.

Illinois is pushing back against federal claims that it improperly spent $30 million in Medicaid funds on immigrants in the country illegally, calling the accusation by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

Aetna Better Health, the managed care subsidiary of Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna, filed a notice of intent to terminate its four Medicaid contracts with Illinois due to $698 million in outstanding ...

Medicaid cuts and lapsed subsidies could swell the uninsured, pushing west-central Illinois hospitals to spend more on ...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois can begin enrolling eligible members into its managed Medicaid plans after the state lifted a sanction against the insurer in late October, according to the ...

Hospital officials in Illinois say they will have to make some difficult decisions in the next few years that could involve laying off staff, cutting back services and even closing some facilities ...

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Illinois In Focus Daily | Friday Jan. 26th, 2026 Segments with corrected lip sync: Candidate investigates Medicaid spending: ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A multibillion-dollar budget crisis will hit the state’s Medicaid program in the next few years unless state lawmakers and Gov. JB Pritzker act to prevent it, budget analysts both ...