Across Illinois, about 70% of days spent in nursing home care are covered by Medicaid, making it the largest insurance payer ...

Illinois is facing a Medicaid funding crisis on numerous fronts, with congressional Republicans now working in committee to ...

Some Illinois long-term care providers are calling a proposal by fellow providers to introduce a nursing home bed tax “misguided.

House Republican efforts to reduce the cost of Medicaid don’t include provisions that would have cost Illinois billions.

Potential federal cuts could automatically force hundreds of thousands of residents to lose coverage under a law currently in the books.

Leaders from four of the nation’s largest Catholic health systems — Ascension, Trinity Health, Providence and SSM Health — are sounding the alarm on proposed changes to Medicaid and the ACA ...

Lauren Underwood, an Illinois Democrat ... contrast to former President Donald Trump whose policies exacerbated the crisis. “He took the covid crisis and turned it into a catastrophe ...

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley called the cuts to Medicaid "politically suicidal" as many Republicans' voter bases may be ...

underscoring the program’s central role in combatting America’s mental health crisis. While Medicaid is federally funded, it is administered by individual states, each of which has broad ...

Andrea Durbin, CEO of the Illinois Collaboration on Youth, said in an interview that the crisis is a “very complicated issue.” “I think people who have been harmed should have ...