Ameet Sachdev

Physical therapist Nita Cesarz works with client Helen Fandrei on May 24, 2016, at Transitional Care Arlington Heights in that suburb. Transitional Care Management is also seeking to open facilities in Lisle and Aurora. Rivals are challenging those plans.

Nursing homes file suit to stop rival’s expansion

June 12, 2018 at 2:33 a.m.

Three nursing homes have gone to court to stop two projects that would bring new competition to the western suburbs. Community Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Naperville, The Springs at...

Advocate-NorthShore merger delayed again

June 12, 2018 at 1:27 p.m.

Advocate Health Care and NorthShore University HealthSystem face another delay over a merger they announced almost two years ago. U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso on Friday granted the Federal Trade...

NorthShore attorney: Judge disagreed with FTC’s definition of hospital market

June 10, 2018 at 5:01 p.m.

Chicago's North Shore is known for affluent suburbs bordering Lake Michigan, Ravinia and as the location of a number of popular movies, including "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Risky Business" and...

FTC to appeal its court loss in Advocate-NorthShore hospital merger case

June 10, 2018 at 5:33 p.m.

The Federal Trade Commission will seek a review of a federal judge's ruling Tuesday that denied its request to block the merger of two major Chicago-area hospital chains. The commission...

A $55 million surgical expansion is under construction June 15, 2016, at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora. The hospital plans to expand specialty care in neurosciences, neonatal and women's health as part of a closer partnership with Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

Aurora’s Rush-Copley to expand specialty care

June 10, 2018 at 6:01 p.m.

Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora plans to expand specialty care and add physician training under a closer partnership with Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. The two hospitals are selling...

Stephani Becker, a senior policy specialist at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, is photographed June 3, 2016, at the center's offices in Chicago's Loop. Becker said advocates would like to be part of a discourse on health insurance rate plans. "Right now there is no public discourse," she said.

Unlike other states, Illinois keeps potential Obamacare premium hikes secret

August 21, 2019 at 11:45 p.m.

More than half of the states have disclosed just how much higher their health care premiums could be next year under the Affordable Care Act, and some of the potential...

Two former researchers at the University of Chicago have agreed to sanctions after it was found an article they published contained fraudulent information. Cobb Gate at the University of Chicago is seen April 27, 2016.

Two former U. of C. medical researchers faked data, government finds

June 10, 2018 at 5:54 p.m.

Two former University of Chicago medical researchers faked and falsified data in two federally funded studies into heart failure, according to federal records. Ricky Malhotra and Karen D'Souza, who both...

Moody’s downgrades Presence Health to edge of junk status

June 10, 2018 at 6:35 p.m.

Moody's Investors Service cut Presence Health's debt rating to the brink of junk territory and said the ratings outlook is negative, meaning there's potential for further downgrade. In an opinion...

Patient Navigator Delaila Hernandez, center, helps Fred Cardenas with documents at a Affordable Care Act enrollment event Feb. 12, 2015, at the public library in Fort Worth, Texas. In Texas, Blue Cross and Blue Shield is seeking increases averaging 53.7 percent across its Affordable Care Act plans.

Blue Cross premium hikes in Texas, Oklahoma could mean Illinois sticker shock

June 10, 2018 at 6:11 p.m.

Illinois residents who buy Blue Cross and Blue Shield health care coverage through the state insurance exchange may be in for Obamacare sticker shock, if proposed rate hikes by the...

Shire completes takeover of Bannockburn drugmaker Baxalta

June 12, 2018 at 2:50 a.m.

Shire completed its $32 billion purchase of Bannockburn-based Baxalta Friday, creating a global leader in drugs that treat hemophilia and other rare diseases. Shire, headquartered in Ireland, expects the acquisition...

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