If Congress follows through on rolling back Medicaid expansion, 900,000 Illinoisans could lose their health insurance.

It's common for young people leaving jails and prisons to end up back behind bars, often after lapses related to untreated mental illness or substance abuse. A new law will help them get Medicaid.

Bolingbrook woman was sentenced to three years in prison for stealing almost $2.5 million from taxpayers by fraudulently ...

Alabama Rep. Shomari Figures (D) is co-sponsoring a bill that aims to expand health care coverage to millions of Americans ...

Illinois is loosening standards to make grandparents and other relatives eligible to receive benefits for caring for children in the care of the Department of Children and Family Standards under a new ...

With the future of many social programs under scrutiny by the new administration and Republican-led Congress, a rally in ...

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

An Illinois teenager’s chest surgery was canceled last week after President Donald Trump issued an executive order seeking to ...

President Trump's proposed federal funding cuts have some in the HIV and AIDS community worried their programs and ...

An Illinois lawmaker is pushing a new bill that would ensure parents have the final say before their kids are prescribed psychotropic medications.

With Gov. JB Pritzker still weighing whether to seek a third term, the firmer foundation he’s laid for Illinois’ historically shaky finances faces a major stress test from ballooning deficit ...

A White House memo froze federal funding, causing chaos. A judge blocked the freeze, but states fear cuts. Illinois vows ...