Looming cuts to Medicaid are much greater, with the federal Congressional Budget Office projecting this week that some 8.6 ...

State health care leaders are warning that proposed cuts to federal Medicaid funding could have devastating consequences— potentially resulting in a loss of health care coverage for hundreds of ...

SPRINGFIELD — State officials are on track to shut down a program at the end of June that provides publicly funded health ...

Potential federal cuts could automatically force hundreds of thousands of residents to lose coverage under a law currently in the books.

Cutting Medicaid shifts costs to Medicare, increasing the burden on federal taxpayers. Medicaid covers essential services not covered by Medicare, such as nursing home care and premiums, preventing ...

Illinois' program to offer insurance to noncitizen migrants helped hospitals reduce bad debt by nearly $1.5 million per ...

Among this population, individuals enrolled in Medicaid are more likely to experience mental illness than those with private insurance, underscoring the program’s central role in combatting ...

It’s a combined effort between Medicare and Medicaid. The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) offers support for people who wish to live at home but require a certain level of ...

and Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs) are designed to help pay some of those extra costs. The federal government funds MSPs, but they are run by the Medicaid program, and enrollment requirements ...

The National Institutes of Health will use information from federal health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid to create ...