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

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 ...

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.

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” ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services office is pictured in downtown Springfield. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services office is pictured in downtown Springfield.