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Advocate hospitals settle Medicare billing allegations over defibrillators

June 16, 2018 at 12:36 p.m.

Downers Grove-based Advocate Health Care has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a federal investigation into alleged overuse of a cardiac device in Medicare patients. The Advocate settlement is...

A Rite Aid is shown October 27, 2015, in Boulder, Colorado.

Walgreens willing to shed 1,000 stores on Rite Aid deal

June 16, 2018 at 1:02 p.m.

Walgreens Boots Alliance is willing to unload up to 1,000 stores in order to win regulatory approval of its $17.2 billion deal to acquire Rite Aid, the company said in...

The Tau Center's Peace Path is on the campus of Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton.

Marianjoy joining Northwestern Medicine

June 16, 2018 at 1:07 p.m.

Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton has agreed to join the Northwestern Medicine health system, as part of a breakup of a Catholic health care organization. Founded in 1972, Marianjoy is...

Walgreens’ Rite Aid deal has skeptics; stock falls more than $10

June 16, 2018 at 1:18 p.m.

Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Stefano Pessina is widely admired for his dealmaking prowess, but he faces questions over his latest acquisition. The Deerfield-based company on Tuesday agreed to buy Rite...

Rite Aid, based in Camp Hill, Pa., had nearly 4,600 drugstores in 31 states as of the end of February, none of them in Illinois.

Walgreens agrees to buy Rite Aid for $17.2 billion

June 16, 2018 at 1:33 p.m.

Less than a year after closing the biggest deal in its history to expand to Europe, Walgreens Boots Alliance is charging ahead with a new U.S. acquisition despite being in...

The HealthCare.gov website on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.

Premiums on health insurance exchanges going up in 2016

June 16, 2018 at 1:07 p.m.

Illinois residents who buy health insurance on Healthcare.gov for 2016 will pay higher premiums despite the rise of plans with smaller networks of physicians and hospitals that are supposed to...

Lidia Huante, right, a Get Covered Illinois navigator with Alivio Medical Center, helped Nancy Garcia, left, enroll in health insurance in September 2014 through the federal Affordable Care Act.

State cutting Obamacare navigators

June 16, 2018 at 1:35 p.m.

Get Covered Illinois, amid a sharp reduction in federal funding, has only enough money this year to pay for about 150 counselors who help consumers buy health insurance through the...

Jason Montrie, president of Chicago-based Land of Lincoln Health, offered assurances that the company is not in danger of shutting down. But its plan includes some short-term pain.

How an insurance startup’s slowdown is disrupting the Illinois marketplace

June 16, 2018 at 1:35 p.m.

The recent demise of several Obamacare-spawned health insurers across the country has raised concerns about the future of Land of Lincoln Health as it enters its third year of open...

Cook County picks 1st development team for West Side hospital campus

June 16, 2018 at 1:07 p.m.

Clayco, a Chicago-based construction company, and real estate services firm CBRE Group won a beauty contest to help Cook County develop a new building housing clinical space and administrative offices...

Illinois health co-op limits small-business policies

June 16, 2018 at 1:56 p.m.

Land of Lincoln Health confirmed Monday that the startup insurer will limit the sales of new policies for small employers for the last two months of the year in order...

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