Illinois spent about $815 million on the Medicaid expansion program during the last fiscal year, HFS says. The feds paid out $7.34 billion because, as noted above, they pick up 90% of the total tab, ...

Illinois law requires the state to withdraw from the expansion program if federal reimbursement falls below 90%. Some 770,000 ...

“Thousands of Illinois residents rely on Medicaid for their health care, and this sentence should send a clear message that anyone who defrauds Illinois’ Medicaid program will be prosecuted to ...

Illinois has a “trigger” law that would automatically end Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions in the state if federal ...

But Illinois has a “trigger” law that would automatically end Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions in the state if federal ...

Bills advance to make Medicaid enrollment easier for seniors, children and adults with disabilities. Opponents flag potential costs to taxpayers as cause for concern.

A directive by President Donald Trump to freeze federal grants and loans raised uncertainty and fears among many who depend ...

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

States including Illinois say they have been locked out of their accounts. Medicaid provides health ... said Tuesday that the pause does not apply to federal student loans or Pell grants.

Rep. Brett Guthrie, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, said the work requirements that Republicans proposed for ...