Bill Text: IL SB3959 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision requiring the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to pay the DCFS per diem rate for inpatient psychiatric stays at free-standing psychiatric hospitals or hospitals with a pediatric or adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit, removes language making the provision operative only through July 1, 2023.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-10 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB3959 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB3959-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB3959 Introduced 1/21/2022, by Sen. Sara Feigenholtz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
305 ILCS 5/5-5.07
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision requiring the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to pay the DCFS per diem rate for inpatient psychiatric stays at free-standing psychiatric hospitals or hospitals with a pediatric or adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit, removes language making the provision operative only through July 1, 2023.
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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 5-5.07 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/5-5.07)
Sec. 5-5.07. Inpatient psychiatric stay; DCFS per diem
rate. The Department of Children and Family Services shall pay
the DCFS per diem rate for inpatient psychiatric stay at a
free-standing psychiatric hospital or a hospital with a
pediatric or adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit effective
the 11th day when a child is in the hospital beyond medical
necessity, and the parent or caregiver has denied the child
access to the home and has refused or failed to make provisions
for another living arrangement for the child or the child's
discharge is being delayed due to a pending inquiry or
investigation by the Department of Children and Family
Services. If any portion of a hospital stay is reimbursed
under this Section, the hospital stay shall not be eligible
for payment under the provisions of Section 14-13 of this
Code. This Section is inoperative on and after July 1, 2021.
Notwithstanding the provision of Public Act 101-209 stating
that this Section is inoperative on and after July 1, 2020,

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this Section is operative from July 1, 2020 through July 1,
2023.
(Source: Reenacted by P.A. 101-15, eff. 6-14-19; reenacted by
P.A. 101-209, eff. 8-5-19; P.A. 101-655, eff. 3-12-21;
102-201, eff. 7-30-21; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21.)