Uncertainty in federal funding under President Donald Trump's administration has made a tough state budget season even more ...

Illinois and other states have been shut out of the Medicaid system due to an order from President Donald Trump to temporarily freeze federal funds while the government conducts a spending review. A ...

Illinois law requires the state to withdraw from the expansion program if federal reimbursement falls below 90%. Some 770,000 ...

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi is speaking out against proposed federal spending cuts that would affect programs for ...

U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Skokie) did not mince words about President Donald Trump’s plan to pause Medicaid payments when ...

Illinois spent about $815 million on the Medicaid expansion program during the last fiscal year, HFS says. The feds paid out ...

LaTeena Smith pleaded guilty in December to submitting fraudulent bills for psychotherapy services for Medicaid managed care ...

Perhaps the most important shift for Medicaid — and the source of its growing popularity — is that the program isn’t really seen as a handout anymore. A large majority of Americans, including 45 ...

Republican lawmakers in several states have Medicaid expansion in their crosshairs, energized by President Donald Trump's ...

Medicaid covers 1 in 5 people living in the U.S. and accounts for nearly $1 out of every $5 spent on health care.

However, events could overtake them. The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services’ list of Medicaid recipients by House and Senate districts has been urgently circulated among ...