Some providers may need to reduce services, lay off staff or close their doors if Congress enacts major cuts to the ...

Illinois’ schools, transit agencies and health systems have known for a long time that federal pandemic relief is ending and a budget squeeze is coming. Now an obscure but important calculation from ...

Diane Slezak, president and CEO of AgeOptions, has worked in the aging services sector helping to meet the needs of seniors ...

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 ...

Approximately 3.4 million Illinoisans rely on Medicaid ... we are urging Illinois lawmakers and the public to push back against these dangerous cuts. Protecting this funding is about compassion ...

The regulation is titled "Preserving Medicaid Funding for Vulnerable Populations—Closing a Health Care-Related Tax Loophole.” “This proposed rule would update existing regulations that ...

Other plaintiff states include California, Illinois and Massachusetts ... The case before McConnell stemmed from a funding freeze first announced in a January 27 memo by the White House's Office ...

Cutting federal Medicaid expansion funding could lead to 30K additional deaths: Analysis by Nathaniel Weixel - 04/23/25 5:00 AM ET by Nathaniel Weixel - 04/23/25 5:00 AM ET ...

Joshua Carter Belleville News-Democrat When Illinois named small farmer Nathan ... Then the U.S. Department of Agriculture cut his funding. The Ryder family farm, a 10-acre operation in Pope ...

Illinois in State Fiscal Year 2024 received over $20 billion from the federal government for Medicaid spending across the state. That amount made up about 62% of the total funding for Medicaid ...