Peter Frost

Illinois is outsourcing part of its Medicaid program to a company that is under a federal grand jury investigation in Louisiana, was disqualified from bidding in Arkansas, was ushered out...

Accretive Health Inc. will delay the release of its second-quarter financial statements as it continues to untangle accounting discrepancies stretching to at least the second quarter of 2010. In a...

The decline of the American periodical publishing business has claimed another victim. American Medical News, the long-running biweekly publication of the American Medical Association, will fold after it prints its...

Beleaguered health technology company Merge Healthcare Inc. said Friday that its chief executive Jeffery Surges has resigned following another disappointing financial performance in its second quarter. Chicago-based Merge, which pulled...

Fifteen Cook County hospitals will split $47 million in state grants as part of a capital construction program, Gov. Pat Quinn's office said Thursday. The funding, part of Quinn's "Illinois...

The Port of Chicago's shipping berths and docks are crumbling, its piers outdated and underused, and large swaths of prime land sit vacant. Nearly every long-term contract it has with...