Stroger Hospital slammed for plan to merge pediatric, adult emergency rooms
At a Cook County board meeting this month, Dr. Tatyana Kagan stood to address the commissioners. It was the first time she had attended a meeting. Kagan works in the...
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Edward-Elmhurst Health to rely more on U. of C. for pediatric care
Edward-Elmhurst Health has turned to a well-known academic medical center in Chicago to provide pediatric specialty care at its outpatient clinics. The health system, with hospitals in Naperville and Elmhurst,...
Northwestern takeover of Kishwaukee Hospital prompts concerns in DeKalb
DeKALB — When residents here need to be hospitalized for psychiatric care, they are often treated a long way from home because the local hospital closed its mental health unit...
Missouri AG: Walgreens pricing still deceives consumers
Walgreens continues to deceive customers in Missouri with expired or incorrect price tags on store shelves, the state's attorney general said Tuesday. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has asked a...
Humana to increase some Medicare Advantage premiums
Humana plans to raise premiums next year for some of the private Medicare plans the insurer sells in Cook County, according to data released Monday by the Obama administration. The...
With memories so digital, what happens to stores’ photo labs?
Photography is more popular than ever thanks to smartphones. But Walgreens and other retailers that offer low-cost photos confront a hard reality in the Internet age: Americans are printing fewer...
Sale of Patel hotels to aid IMET, other victims of alleged fraud
Nearly a year after a west suburban investment pool disclosed that it believed it had been defrauded and lost $50.4 million in tax dollars, the fund has some promising news...
IlliniCare fires back over Cook County contract termination
The company running Cook County's Medicaid insurance plan that was fired last month warned that changing administrators "threatens a major disruption" to the plan's 171,000 members. Jeff Joy, president and...
AMA raises concerns over insurance mergers
The proposed mergers among the nation's largest health insurers raise antitrust issues and warrant careful review, the American Medical Association said Tuesday. The Chicago-based doctors group said the combinations of...
Lurie Children’s to acquire first physician practice
Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago said Friday that it plans to acquire its first physician practice, a late arrival to consolidation sweeping the health care industry. Lurie Children's has agreed...