Bruce Japsen

While most state health insurance programs for the poor are routinely ripped off through improper payments to providers of medical care, Illinois' Medicaid officials appear to at least be treating...

Holding to its strategy to grow into a national health insurance company without converting to being publicly traded, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois has finalized its long-awaited purchase...

In a high-profile lobbying battle over patients' rights legislation, the American Medical Association doesn't want to give arms to the enemy. That said, the Chicago-based doctors group has terminated a...

Bucking the drug industry trend toward increased spending on direct-to-consumer advertisements, Abbott Laboratories confirmed plans to pull the plug later this year on such marketing for its weight loss drug...

Evanston Northwestern Healthcare's finances long have been the envy of cash-strapped non-profit hospital operators in the Chicago area. These days, Evanston Northwestern's balance sheet also might make executives of investor-owned...

Abbott Laboratories' experimental drug to treat prostate cancer has been shown to delay the progression of the disease in patients who begin to fail current commonly used treatments, according to...

A former sales representative for a Lake Forest pharmaceutical company and three other men have been charged with setting up an illegal multistate black market in the costly prostate cancer...

Drugstore giant Walgreen Co. is cutting prescription services and will stop building new stores in poor neighborhoods throughout Illinois, citing recent reductions in state Medicaid subsidies. The move pits the...

With the help of some physicians, the health insurance industry is planning a house call on patients in an attempt to sway federal debate over managed-care reform. The American Association...

The nation's Blue Cross health plans are stepping up their war on health-care fraud. So far, the Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, which represents 46 of the nation's...