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Nurses threaten strike over wages at University of Illinois Hospital

June 17, 2018 at 10:32 a.m.

Nurses at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System are seeking a 21.5 percent wage increase over three years, a hike hospital administrators said would cost the system...

State renews marketing contract for Obamacare

June 17, 2018 at 10:17 a.m.

Illinois has renewed its contract with the public relations firm FleishmanHillard to handle communications, advertising and marketing the state's insurance exchange through April 2015.The nine-month contract, effective August 15, is...

Customers wait at the pharmacy counter of a Walgreen Co. store in Oak Park in 2011.

Walgreens pharmacy database crashes temporarily, blocking prescriptions

June 17, 2018 at 10:37 a.m.

Walgreen Co.'s pharmacy database crashed and remained down for several hours on Friday morning, blocking customers from filling prescriptions. The Deerfield-based drugstore chain said the systems were restored at all...

Illinois exchange on 3 additional insurers’ radar for 2015

June 17, 2018 at 10:56 a.m.

Three new insurers plan to offer policies on the Illinois health insurance exchange in the second year of the Affordable Care Act, including one that counts hospitals as financial partners....

Baxter reports success in late-stage trial on extended release hemophilia drug

June 17, 2018 at 10:25 a.m.

Baxter International Inc. said Thursday a key hemophilia drug under development met its primary goal in a late-stage clinical study. The drug, known as BAX 855, is essentially a stronger,...

Under the rotunda of the Illinois State Capitol building on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 in Springfield.

Illinois took too much money from federal Medicaid account, audit says

June 18, 2018 at 8:53 a.m.

Illinois overdrew money from a federal Medicaid account by an average of $60 million per quarter over a three-year period because of "faulty" and "imprecise" practices, according to a federal...

The cost of raising a child is going up.

Cost to raise a child rises to more than $245,000

June 17, 2018 at 11:11 a.m.

The cost for a middle-income family to raise a child born in 2013 to age 18 rose to $245,340, up 1.8 percent from the previous year, according to a government...

New Hyatt hotel to open in West Loop in February

June 17, 2018 at 10:53 a.m.

Hyatt The Loop Chicago is slated to open in February in a converted vintage office building at 100 W. Monroe, the project's developer and the hotel operator said Monday. The...

Abbott wins $19.5 million contract to develop brain injury test

June 17, 2018 at 11:11 a.m.

Abbott Laboratories and the Defense Department on Monday said they have agreed to a multiyear collaboration to develop portable blood tests to help evaluate concussions and other head injuries. Lake...

Feds ask 10,000 Obamacare enrollees in Illinois to prove citizenship

June 17, 2018 at 10:36 a.m.

More than 10,000 Illinoisans must provide documentation to prove they are U.S. citizens or legal residents by the first week of September or risk losing the health insurance they bought...

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