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 ...

That's the biggest one-year reduction in death since the opioid crisis began in the 1990s ... hospitals and recovery clinics ...

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

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

The World Health Organization on Monday opened its annual meeting of government ministers and other top envoys facing one of ...

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 ...

Medicaid is a crucial public health program ... The federal government has moved to gut funding that supports Illinois Humanities and similar organizations nationwide. These are not bloated ...

adding pressure on Illinois to meet its goals of shedding older, dirtier forms of fossil fuel power, such as coal and natural gas, that contribute to the climate crisis and threaten public health.

Annual overdose deaths are still higher than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, says the CDC, which has been collecting ...