Bill Text: IL HB0614 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that for child care institutions, group homes, facilities licensed by the Department of Public Health under the Nursing Home Care Act as Intermediate Care for the Developmentally Disabled facilities, or facilities licensed by the Department of Human Services under the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act, in any calendar year in which there is a cost-of-living increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security Administration payments, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services (and the Department of Children and Family Services, in the case of child care institutions and group homes) shall increase the Medicaid per diem rate paid to those facilities by an amount equal to the total amount of the increase in Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security Administration payments. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0614 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB0614-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning public aid.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
changing Section 5-5.4a as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/5-5.4a)
Sec. 5-5.4a. Intermediate Care Facility for the
Developmentally Disabled; bed reserve payments.
The The Department of Public Aid shall promulgate rules by
October 1, 1993 which establish a policy of bed reserve
payments to Intermediate Care Facilities for the
Developmentally Disabled which addresses the needs of
residents of Intermediate Care Facilities for the
Developmentally Disabled (ICF/DD) and their families.
(a) When a resident of an Intermediate Care Facility for
the Developmentally Disabled (ICF/DD) is absent from the ICF/DD
in which he or she is a resident for purposes of physician
authorized in-patient admission to a hospital, the
Department's rules shall, at a minimum, provide (1) bed reserve
payments at a daily rate which is 100% of the client's current
per diem rate, for a period not exceeding 10 consecutive days;
(2) bed reserve payments at a daily rate which is 75% of a
client's current per diem rate, for a period which exceeds 10

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consecutive days but does not exceed 30 consecutive days; and
(3) bed reserve payments at a daily rate which is 50% of a
client's current per diem rate for a period which exceeds
thirty consecutive days but does not exceed 45 consecutive
days.
(b) When a resident of an Intermediate Care Facility for
the Developmentally Disabled (ICF/DD) is absent from the ICF/DD
in which he or she is a resident for purposes of a home visit
with a family member the Department's rules shall, at a
minimum, provide (1) bed reserve payments at a rate which is
100% of a client's current per diem rate, for a period not
exceeding 10 days per State fiscal year; and (2) bed reserve
payments at a rate which is 75% of a client's current per diem
rate, for a period which exceeds 10 days per State fiscal year
but does not exceed 30 days per State fiscal year.
(c) No Department rule regarding bed reserve payments shall
require an ICF/DD to have a specified percentage of total
facility occupancy as a requirement for receiving bed reserve
payments.
This Section 5-5.4a shall not apply to any State operated
facilities.
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)