2 days ago · Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza said the state processed all $518 million in Medicaid bills last week and received its federal match on Monday, before the Trump administration apparently shut down access to the system. “However, I am very concerned about how long this ‘freeze’ may last,” Mendoza said in a statement.

3 days ago · Though the funding freeze was supposed to take effect at 4 p.m. Central Time Tuesday, Gov. JB Pritzker’s office staid that the state of Illinois was shut out of Medicaid as of Tuesday morning.

3 days ago · Illinois, Other States Temporarily Lost Access to Medicaid Portal Amid Funding Freeze Winter Blast Hits Large Swath of US Hard; Lake Effect Snow Expected in Chicago This Afternoon Bally’s Chicago Casino Rings Up Just $63.2M in …

2 days ago · A federal judge blocked the funding freeze minutes before it was set to kick in, placing it on until next week while the legal wrangling continues Update at 12:25 p.m. Wednesday: President Donald ...

2 days ago · FILE - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is seen, April 5, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (Alex Brandon/AP) Hours before President Donald Trump’s administration was due to put a freeze on federal grants and loans, agencies in Illinois were unable to access federal funding sites, including Medicaid.. Shaw Local confirmed with Gov. JB Pritzker’s ...

3 days ago · Trump's federal funding freeze on hold — as ‘chaos, confusion and fear’ grip Chicago ... While the Medicaid system for reimbursements went down Tuesday morning and reimbursements appeared to ...

3 days ago · UPDATED. Illinois’ Medicaid portal was back up and running this afternoon following reports from state agencies that they could not access it amid a federal funding freeze that kickstarted ...

2 days ago · Federally-funded community health clinics, which that serve more than 32 million patients, many of them low-income, were also caught in the portal freeze. In addition to Medicaid, those clinics ...

3 days ago · In California, Oregon, Illinois and other states, an online portal where state Medicaid departments receive federal funding stopped working hours after the memo was sent, according to state ...

2 days ago · Amid the Trump administration's abrupt, wide-scale freeze on federal funding, states are reporting that they've lost access to Medicaid, a program jointly funded by the federal government and ...