Medicaid

The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services reports nearly 47,000 residents were dropped due to not filling out paperwork

With the COVID emergency over, the state of Illinois in May resumed those eligibility checks – called redeterminations – for the first time in three years. No one knows how many people will get bumped out of Medicaid over the next year.

As of Saturday, people ages 42 to 64 no longer are eligible to join a Medicaid-like program for noncitizens. Those already enrolled will now have co-pays.

Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration wasted no time last week in exercising new authority granted by lawmakers to limit the number of enrollees in a pair of state-funded health care programs for low-income noncitizens.

Bloomington-based Heritage Operations Group is selling off about half its fleet of nursing homes, and cutting administrative staff.

As part of Chestnut Health's Medicaid Innovation Collaborative, Coretta Jackson helps at-risk McLean County residents with navigating a convoluted system that often leaves out the most vulnerable. This WGLT exclusive shares the highs and lows of community health work by spending the day with Jackson and meeting some of her clients.

More than 300,000 Illinois residents could lose health insurance coverage when Medicaid pandemic protections end on March 31.

The head of a large long-term care company based in Bloomington said lawmakers did good work on nursing home reform in the spring session. One bill, more than a year in the making, will annually put $700 million more into the revenue stream (HB 246).

Central Illinois health providers will receive a $5 million chunk of $18 million in new state money to transform health care for people on Medicaid and other underserved populations. It's part of the so-called Illinois Healthcare Transformation collaborative.

Illinois will now provide Medicaid benefits to eligible mothers for up to 12 months postpartum, a major extension from the previous 60-day limit.Gov. JB…