| Search 1) News For: Illinois Medicaid Amerigroup will cover Nevada Medicaid patients Health insurer Amerigroup Corp. said Wednesday it will begin covering people enrolled in the Nevada Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance programs effective Feb. 1, 2009. Search 2) News For: Illinois Medicaid Consultant: DMC Medicaid payments to Wayne State are legal A private financial analysis conducted on an $85 million contract between Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University School of Medicine concludes that compensation for about $10 million in physician services paid by DMC to Wayne... Illinois Gov. Blagojevich's Amendatory Veto Could Jeopardize Bill That Would Grant Uninsured State Residents Discounts ... Final passage of a bill that would give Illinois residents without health insurance a discount on hospital care could be jeopardized because of an amendatory veto by Gov. Rod Blagojevich D, the Chicago Tribune reports. The bill -- which would have guaranteed uninsured Illinoisans the "most generous discounts in the U.S. Hospital groups to work on balancing doctors' caseloads of Medicaid moms Representatives from the county's two largest medical groups have agreed to work on balancing the caseload for doctors seeing pregnant moms on Medicaid, but they will ultimately need the cooperation of a number doctors in Kenosha County. Search 3) News For: Illinois Medicaid Illinois Family Sues Hospital That Lost Teen's Tumor An Illinois family is suing a hospital claiming it lost a tumor removed from a teen before it could determine whether the tumor was cancerous. Search 4) News For: Illinois Medicaid Public hearing on government-health-plan bill set Thursday CHAMPAIGN ��� Are you disgruntled about not being able to afford health insurance? Or not being able to afford medical care even when you do have insurance? Here's your chance to tell your legislators what you think of a proposal to provide health care for everyone in Illinois through a government-sponsored, single-payer insurance plan. A public hearing on the Health Care for All Illinois Act ... Search 5) News For: Illinois Medicaid Central DuPage Hospital Wins Unanimous State Approval to Build Proton Therapy Center Thousands of cancer patients in need of proton therapy--a form of radiation therapy without many of the short- and long-term side effects-- can look forward to having a treatment center available in Illinois with the 4-0 approval today by the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board IHFPB of the Proton Therapy Center of Central DuPage Hospital. Construction on the 58,000-square-foot, ... Governor approves plan to extend insurance coverage It is a problem that many college students face but may never realize, and one that Illinois State alumni Bryan Tylkowski knows all too well. Upon graduation, many students are no longer covered by their parents' health insurance plans. However, Governor Rod Blagojevich is taking steps to prevent this from happening. Leukemia patient becomes fundraising hero Christy Coyle Moore never figured anyone would consider her a hero. The 31-year-old former Rockford resident certainly didn���t count on the circumstances that led the Illinois chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society designating her as one of its honored heroes for Thursday���s Light the Night walk from Davis Park to raise money toward finding a cure for blood cancers and supporting local ... Search 6) News For: Illinois Medicaid Senators ask VA to consider Spring Valley hospital WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Barack Obama want the Department of Veterans Affairs to consider converting a Spring Valley, Illinois hospital into a VA medical center for north-central Illinois. |

