Bill Text: IL SB1797 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that a Safety-Net Hospital as defined in the Code that provided more than 15,000 Medicaid acute inpatient days of care in State fiscal year 2011 shall have its Medicaid Percentage Adjustment Payments, as calculated by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, increased by an amount equal to $220 per day. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-10-10 - Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB1797 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB1797-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 SB1797 Introduced 2/20/2015, by Sen. Donne E. Trotter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
305 ILCS 5/5A-12.6 new
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that a Safety-Net Hospital as defined in the Code that provided more than 15,000 Medicaid acute inpatient days of care in State fiscal year 2011 shall have its Medicaid Percentage Adjustment Payments, as calculated by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, increased by an amount equal to $220 per day. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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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 5A-12.6 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/5A-12.6 new)
Sec. 5A-12.6. Safety-Net Hospital; Medicaid Percentage
Adjustment Payments. A Safety-Net Hospital as defined in
Section 5-5e.1 of this Code that provided more than 15,000
Medicaid acute inpatient days of care in State fiscal year 2011
shall have its Medicaid Percentage Adjustment Payments, as
calculated by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services,
increased by an amount equal to $220 per day.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.