Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday introduced $140 million in federal grants to Illinois Medicaid suppliers to lend a hand offset sudden prices associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the state, federally funded well being facilities “have been performing heroically on the frontlines of this pandemic since the very first patient showed up with COVID-19, and they haven’t stopped despite months and months of truly grueling work and difficult circumstances,” Pritzker mentioned all through a information convention on the Howard Brown Health Center in Englewood. The grant cash is from the coronavirus reduction invoice, the $2.2 trillion financial stimulus packaged signed into legislation previous this yr. Theresa Eagleson, director of the state Department of Healthcare and Family Services, mentioned just about
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Medicaid managed care reforms signed into regulation
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker mentioned Monday that individuals making use of for Medicaid advantages in Illinois will see these functions processed extra shortly, and well being care suppliers can be paid extra promptly, below a complete reform invoice now signed into regulation. “This legislation launches one of the most aggressive, cross-agency efforts in Illinois history to expand health care access and to eliminate the multiyear Medicaid backlog once and for all,” Pritzker mentioned throughout a bill-signing ceremony in Chicago. Medicaid is a publicly-funded medical insurance program for low-income households, seniors and the disabled. Established in 1966, it's collectively funded by the state and federal governments and it's the largest medical insurance program in Illinois, overlaying