The desire to budget health care is not new. States and employer purchasers have used prepaid health plan contracting as a way to budget Medicaid and employee health benefit costs for years.

The administration’s 2017 budget includes initiatives to increase access to mental health care, expand opioid abuse treatment, fight antibiotic resistance, combat the Zika virus, and fund a ...

Oversight of hospitals, nursing homes and pharmaceutical companies topped Gov. Ned Lamont’s list of health care priorities in his spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

Gov. Pritzker’s fiscal 2023 budget proposes investing $180 million to preserve and grow the state’s health care workforce, with a focus on Medicaid providers.