Topics In Press Release

• A Patient Complained About the Cost of Her Medical Care. Here's How Her Doctor Responded.
• A Search for New Ways to Pay for Drugs that Cost a Mint
• AMA Delegates Support Site-Neutral Insurance Payments
• Ambulatory Centers' Surgery Costs Below Hospitals', Workers' Comp Research Finds
• Another Day of Grim Discoveries as Death Toll Rises to 42 in Camp Fire
• As Social Media 'Influencers,' Patients are Getting a Voice. And Pharma is Ready to Pay Up.
• Azar Outlines HHS Ambition on Social Determinants of Health: 5 Takeaways
• Breakthrough Peanut Allergy Drug Ready for FDA Review Offers Hope for Those Who Suffer
• Candidates for City Offices Start Filing Petitions Today
• CDC Confirms More Cases of Rare, Paralyzing Illness AFM in Kids
• CMS May Allow Hospitals to Pay for Housing Through Medicaid
• Cook County Approves $5.94 Billion Budget with No New Taxes, Fines or Fees
• Dems Aim to Balance Oversight, Bipartisanship on VA Committee
• Doctors Revolt after NRA Tells Them to 'Stay in Their Lane' on Gun Policy
• Dr. Marc Siegel: Obamacare is Here to Stay, but it's Improving Under the Trump Administration
• Drug Pricing Group Launches Six-Figure Ad Buy Pressuring Congress to Act
• Editorial: Don't Leave Us Clueless About Toxic Chemicals in the Air We Breathe
• Eight Days After Winning Comptroller Election, Susana Mendoza Announces Run for Chicago Mayor
• FDA Looks to Ban Menthol Cigarettes, Restrict Flavored E-Cigarettes Amid Youth 'Epidemic'
• Final Budget OK'd, Rahm Touts Record: 'I Never Once Punted on a Tough Decision'
• For a Child's Cough, the Best Medicine is No Medicine
• For Wildfire Safety, Only Particular Masks Guard Against Toxic Particulate Matter
• Grim Fiscal Forecast Awaits Illinois' New Governor
• Gun Control vs. Mental Health Care: Debate after Mass Shootings Obscures Murky Reality
• Health Officials Warn Against Overuse of Antibiotics
• Help Your Behavioral Health Patients after ER Discharge
• How Doctors and Nurses Cope with the Human Toll of Gun Violence
• IHA Daily Briefing: Nov. 12
• IHA Daily Briefing: Nov. 13
• IHA Daily Briefing: Nov. 14
• IHA Daily Briefing: Nov. 15
• IHA Daily Briefing: Nov. 16
• IHA Daily Briefing: Nov. 6
• IHA Daily Briefing: Nov. 7
• IHA Daily Briefing: Nov. 8
• IHA Daily Briefing: Nov. 9
• Illinois Backs Off Limits on Which Medicaid Patients Can Get Costly but Lifesaving Hepatitis C Drugs
• Illinois Poison Center Warns About "Silent Killer" in Homes
• Illinois Senate Narrowly Votes to Raise Age to Buy Cigarettes to 21
• In Throes of Turkey Salmonella Outbreak, Don't Invite Illness to Your Table
• Lawmakers Look to Further Regulate Ethylene Oxide Emissions
• Left Wants a Vote on Single-Payer Bill in New Congress
• Madigan Supports Pritzker Efforts on Marijuana, Income Tax
• McCarthy Elected House GOP Leader for Next Congress
• Medical Supplier Ditches Illinicare Following Rate Cut
• Medicare Expands Access to In-Home Support for Seniors
• More than 12K People in Arkansas Have Lost Medicaid Coverage
• Move from Fee-for-Service Medicine Hits Hospital Profits Again
• New Medicaid Waivers Available for Short-Term Residential Mental Health Services
• New Physical Activity Guidelines Urge Americans: Move More, Sit Less
• New SIU Med School Program Will Train Some Students Entirely in Southern Illinois
• Obamacare Enrollment Down Compared to Last Year
• $95.3 Billion: The State Economic Impact of Illinois Hospitals and Health Systems
• Camphor Products: A Cause for Concern
• Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson ACA Repeal Proposal
• IHA Honors Illinois Hospitals and Health Systems for Quality Improvement Initiatives
• IHA Recognizes Illinois Hospitals and Health Systems for IHA Innovation Challenge
• IHA Statement re: Amendment to House Bill 5245 (SANEs)
• IHA Statement re: General Assembly Votes on Hospital Assessment Program
• Illinois Health and Hospital Association Elects New Board
• Illinois Hospital Leaders Showcase Quality Improvement Initiatives at the State Capitol
• Illinois Poison Prevention Month
• IPC Warns of Dangers from Fall Mushrooms
• Luis Andrade Joins IHA's Government Relations Team
• MAPS PSO Presents Patient Safety Champion Award
• Officials Working to Keep Guns Out of the Hands of Mental Health Patients
• OSF Holy Family Honored for Excellence
• Passavant Receives 'Magnet' Designation
• Preckwinkle to Unveil Policy Roadmap for Cook County for Next Five Years
• Pritzker Names Transition Committee on Children and Families
• Pritzker Win Alters Focus of Veto Session
• Rahm to Put Final Budget to Bed then Confront the 'Elephant in the Room'
• Sarah Macchiarola Named IHA Vice President, Federal Government Relations
• Statement from A.J. Wilhelmi Re: Illinois Supreme Court Ruling in Oswald v. Beard
• Statement from A.J. Wilhelmi: Federal Approval of Redesigned Hospital Assessment Program
• Study Finds Vast Majority of Violent Incidents Treated in the ED are Never Reported to Police
• The IPC Celebrates 65 Years of Keeping Illinois Safe
• The Sterigenics Scare: U.S. EPA Owes DuPage and Lake Emissions Safety Standards
• U.S. State Spending Exceeds $2 Trillion in Fiscal 2018: Report
• University of Illinois Hospital's Licensed Practical Nurses Go on Strike
• Urbana Property Tax Levy Breaks on Carle Question
• Veto Session for Democrats Could Include 'Football Spiking,' Waiting for New Governor
• What's Health Care Going to Look Like Under a New Governor?
• When Hospitals Merge to Save Money, Patients Often Pay More
• When Lawmakers Return to Springfield, Will They Rebuke Rauner or Save Some Wins for Pritzker?
• With Divided Congress, Health Care Action Hightails it to the States
• With Hospitalization Losing Favor, Judges Order Outpatient Mental Health Treatment
• Women Applaud Michelle Obama's Decision to Share Her Trauma of Miscarriage