Bill Amendment: IL SB1851 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly

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Bill Title: MEDICAID-MC/DD FACILITIES

Status: 2018-07-27 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0646 [SB1851 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB1851-House_Amendment_003.html

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Rep. Gregory Harris

Filed: 5/29/2018

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1851
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1851, AS AMENDED,
with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No.
2, by replacing line 10 on page 64 through line 11 on page 66
with the following:
"(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, if
by July 11, 2018 the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services has neither approved the changes authorized under
Public Act 100-581 nor has formally approved an extension of
the reimbursement methodologies and payments to hospitals
under Sections 5A-12.5 and 14-12 as they are in effect on June
30, 2018, then the following shall apply:
(1) All reimbursement methodologies and payments for
hospital services authorized under Sections 5A-12.2,
5A-12.4, and 5A-12.5 in effect on June 30, 2018 shall
continue subject to the availability of federal matching
funds for such expenditures and subject to the provisions
of subsection (c) of Section 5A-15.

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(2) All supplemental payments to hospitals authorized
in Illinois' Medicaid State Plan in effect on June 30,
2018, which are scheduled to terminate under Illinois'
Medicaid State Plan on June 30, 2018, shall continue
subject to the availability of federal matching funds for
such expenditures.
(3) All assessments imposed under Section 5A-2, as they
are in effect on June 30, 2018, shall continue.
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision in this
subsection (c), the Department shall make monthly advance
payments to any safety-net hospital or critical access
hospital requesting such advance payments in an amount, as
requested by the hospital, provided that the total monthly
payments to the hospital under this subsection shall not
exceed 1/12th of the payments the hospital would have
received under Sections 5A-12.2, 5A-12.4, and 5A-12.5 and
subsections (d) and (f) of Section 14-12.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this subsection
(c), the Department may make monthly advance payments to a
hospital requesting such advance payments in an amount, as
requested by the hospital, provided that the total monthly
payments to the hospital under this subsection shall not
exceed 1/12th of the payments the hospital would have
received under Sections 5A-12.2, 5A-12.4, and 5A-12.5 and
subsections (d) and (f) of Section 14-12.
Advance payments under this paragraph (4) shall be made

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regardless of federal approval for federal financial
participation under Title XIX or XXI of the federal Social
Security Act.
As used in this paragraph (4), "safety-net hospital"
means a hospital as defined in Section 5-5e.1 for Rate Year
2017 or an Illinois hospital that meets the criteria in
paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (a) of Section 5-5e.1
for Rate Year 2017.
As used in this paragraph (4), "critical access
hospital" means a hospital that has such status as of June
30, 2018.
(5) The changes authorized under this subsection (c)
shall continue, on the same time schedule as otherwise
authorized under this Article, until the effective date of
the new and revised methodologies and payments under Public
Act 100-581, which shall be the first day of the second
month following the date of approval by the federal Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services.".