5 days ago · Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza said the state processed all $518 million in Medicaid bills last week and received its federal match on Monday, before the Trump administration apparently shut down access to the system. “However, I am very concerned about how long this ‘freeze’ may last,” Mendoza said in a statement.

5 days ago · Illinois Joins Other States in Asking Courts to Block Donald Trump’s Federal Funding Pause; CTA Says Federal Funding for Red Line Extension Still Expected Despite Freeze ; Note: This story was updated at 7:25 p.m. with new information. Contact Amanda Vinicky: @AmandaVinicky | [email protected]

6 days ago · Though the funding freeze was supposed to take effect at 4 p.m. Central Time Tuesday, Gov. JB Pritzker’s office staid that the state of Illinois was shut out of Medicaid as of Tuesday morning.

5 days ago · “My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night’s federal funding freeze,” Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, posted on X on Tuesday ...

5 days ago · FILE - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is seen, April 5, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (Alex Brandon/AP) Hours before President Donald Trump’s administration was due to put a freeze on federal grants and loans, agencies in Illinois were unable to access federal funding sites, including Medicaid.. Shaw Local confirmed with Gov. JB Pritzker’s ...

5 days ago · ILLINOIS (WTVO) — Illinois and other states were shut out of the Medicaid system Tuesday. The White House confirmed the portal “outage,” but insisted payments would be unaffected. Accor…

6 days ago · UPDATED. Illinois’ Medicaid portal was back up and running this afternoon following reports from state agencies that they could not access it amid a federal funding freeze that kickstarted ...

5 days ago · Trump's federal funding freeze on hold — as ‘chaos, confusion and fear’ grip Chicago ... While the Medicaid system for reimbursements went down Tuesday morning and reimbursements appeared to ...

5 days ago · Federally-funded community health clinics, which that serve more than 32 million patients, many of them low-income, were also caught in the portal freeze. In addition to Medicaid, those clinics ...

5 days ago · Amid the Trump administration's abrupt, wide-scale freeze on federal funding, states are reporting that they've lost access to Medicaid, a program jointly funded by the federal government and ...