Medicaid

Speech therapists, also known as Speech-Language Pathologists, or SLPs for short, are facing major challenges, like stagnant pay and sky-high caseloads. It’s making many consider leaving the field. In a 2-part story, WNIJ’s Peter Medlin has more on the problems...and how it hurts their patients.

Senadora estatal Karina Villa le pide a residentes que se registren para los beneficios antes del 1 de julio.

State Sen. Sue Rezin posits how the state could support St. Mary's Hospital in Peru, IL and expresses her views on how extending coverage to migrants may impact Medicaid in Illinois.

Existen más de tres millones de recipiendarios de Medicaid y CHIP sólo en Illinois, quienes tendrán que solicitar la renovación de su admisión en estos programas a fin de conservar su cobertura, debido a la declaratoria del final de la emergencia de salud pública causada por el virus COVID-19.

There are over 3 million Medicaid and CHIP recipients in Illinois alone who will have to reapply for Medicaid and CHIP in order to keep their coverage as a result of the end of the COVID Public Health Emergency.

Illinois is the first state in the nation to expand Medicaid to qualifying undocumented immigrants aged 42 and up.

A group of Illinois lawmakers and health care advocates want the state to more equitably provide money for low income hospital patients.

Illinois state representatives from both sides of the aisle came to Northern Illinois University this week. They fielded student questions, debated state…

For some people, going to the dentist can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, regular dental treatment keeps teeth healthy. But at the same time, the…

John Perryman is a pediatrician with Mercyhealth in Roscoe. He sees patients struggling to afford medications. Some families, he says, disappear for…