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Tag: Medicaid

New state law provides $700 million for nursing home staffing

New state law provides $700 million for nursing home staffing

— May 31, 2022

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation Tuesday, May 31 that will pump an additional $700 million annually into Medicaid-funded nursing homes, provided they use that money…

  • Illinois has tangled history with abortion despite recent liberal push

    Illinois has tangled history with abortion despite recent liberal push

    — May 3, 2022

    SPRINGFIELD – A leaked draft of an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision that could overturn the landmark 1973 case Roe v. Wade reignited a political debate over whether access to…

  • Deal may be near on nursing home payment reform

    Deal may be near on nursing home payment reform

    — April 4, 2022

    SPRINGFIELD – Officials at the Department of Healthcare and Family Services believe they made “significant progress” this week toward reaching agreement on a plan to overhaul…

  • Milking Medicaid: Health program riddled with industry ties, conflicts of interest

    Milking Medicaid: Health program riddled with industry ties, conflicts of interest

    — November 29, 2021

    The upper echelon of the state agency charged with overseeing Medicaid is peppered with representatives of the for-profit insurance industry state officials are supposed to be policing,…

  • Ambulance service latest Medicaid battleground

    Ambulance service latest Medicaid battleground

    — August 24, 2021

        SPRINGFIELD – Stakeholders are calling on Gov. J.B. Pritzker to sign a bill that passed the General Assembly unanimously and would remove non-emergency ambulance services…

  • Expansion of Medicaid for noncitizens waits for governor’s approval

    Expansion of Medicaid for noncitizens waits for governor’s approval

    — April 25, 2022

    SPRINGFIELD – A bill that would expand Medicaid coverage to otherwise ineligible noncitizens is now awaiting Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s approval. That provision was part of an “omnibus”…

  • Nursing home group at odds with Pritzker’s payment reform plan

    Nursing home group at odds with Pritzker’s payment reform plan

    — February 7, 2022

    SPRINGFIELD – A political battle is shaping up between Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration and one segment of the nursing home industry over a key element of the governor’s budget…

  • Milking Medicaid: Insurance firms reap in billions while doctors get stiffed

    Milking Medicaid: Insurance firms reap in billions while doctors get stiffed

    — November 22, 2021

    State-contracted insurance firms balk at paying frontline medical providers, threatening the viability of leading hospitals and clinics, and imperiling Illinois’ entire Medicaid…

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