Lawmakers want the rate to reflect the true cost of skilled nursing care as more facilities are at risk of closing and ...

The Illinois Medicaid program pays for the care of approximately 55,000 residents who live in 738 nursing homes, also known ...

Congress has proposed cuts to Medicaid to reduce federal spending. However, this leaves more than 3.4 million Illinoisans at ...

Expansions to Medicaid because of the Affordable Care Act and COVID-19 have increased the program in Illinois as Congress ...

States that were once reluctant to expand Medicaid now have their state budgets tied to the fate of the program by ...

The current Medicaid reimbursement rate for support services reflects the cost of a skilled nursing facility in 2017, even though the cost of living has increased 35%.

The impact of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s plan to eliminate a health insurance program for noncitizen immigrants ages 42 to ...

About 3.9 million Illinoisans are enrolled in Medicaid. Of that total, 44% of Medicaid recipients are children, 9% are ...

Lawmakers introduced a bill to ensure Medicaid reimbursement rates continue covering essential services in the nursing home ...

Roughly a dozen states, including the typical suspects of California, Illinois and New York, have passed laws allowing some or all illegal aliens to get non-emergency Medicaid coverage.

President Trump's administration is considering cuts to Medicaid, which could drastically reduce services to 3.9 million ...