State health care leaders are warning that proposed cuts to federal Medicaid funding could have devastating consequences— potentially resulting in a loss of health care coverage for hundreds of ...

Looming cuts to Medicaid are much greater, with the federal Congressional Budget Office projecting this week that some 8.6 ...

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

Approximately 3.4 million Illinoisans rely on Medicaid as a lifeline to accessible, necessary health care. But to some ...

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

Most nursing homes rely on Medicaid for around 75% of their budget, according to Ron Nunziato, an official from the trade association Health Care Council of Illinois. At Clinton Manor, 90% of its ...

CMS has issued a proposed rule to close what it describes as a Medicaid tax “loophole” that some states have exploited to increase federal payments while minimizing their state financial contributions ...

Amid potential cuts to Medicaid funding from Washington, some Illinois lawmakers, advocates and medical practitioners are pushing to protect access to a federal program that discounts prescription ...

When Illinois named small farmer Nathan Ryder a ... Then the U.S. Department of Agriculture cut his funding. The Ryder family farm, a 10-acre operation in Pope County that produces chicken eggs ...