Bill Text: IL HB3788 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: Amends the Long Term Acute Care Hospital Quality Improvement Transfer Program Act to include in the definition of "LTAC hospital" a hospital that begins operations after January 1, 2009 (instead of 2010) and is designated by Medicare as a long term acute care hospital. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2012-01-13 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0662 [HB3788 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB3788-Chaptered.html
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| Public Act 097-0662 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning health facilities.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Long Term Acute Care Hospital Quality | ||||
Improvement Transfer Program Act is amended by changing Section | ||||
10 as follows:
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(210 ILCS 155/10)
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Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act: | ||||
(a) "CARE tool" means the Continuity and Record Evaluation | ||||
(CARE) tool. It is a patient assessment instrument that has | ||||
been developed to document the medical, cognitive, functional, | ||||
and discharge status of persons receiving health care services | ||||
in acute and post-acute care settings. The data collected is | ||||
able to document provider-level quality of care (patient | ||||
outcomes) and characterize the clinical complexity of | ||||
patients. | ||||
(b) "Department" means the Illinois Department of | ||||
Healthcare and Family Services. | ||||
(c) "Discharge" means the release of a patient from | ||||
hospital care for any discharge disposition other than a leave | ||||
of absence, even if for Medicare payment purposes the discharge | ||||
fits the definition of an interrupted stay.
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(d) "FTE" means "full-time equivalent" or a person or | ||||
persons employed in one full-time position. | ||
(e) "Hospital" means an institution, place, building, or | ||
agency located in this State that is licensed as a general | ||
acute hospital by the Illinois Department of Public Health | ||
under the Hospital Licensing Act, whether public or private and | ||
whether organized for profit or not-for-profit. | ||
(f) "ICU" means intensive care unit. | ||
(g) "LTAC hospital" means an Illinois a hospital that is | ||
designated by Medicare as a long term acute care hospital as | ||
described in Section 1886(d)(1)(B)(iv)(I) of the Social | ||
Security Act and has an average length of Medicaid inpatient | ||
stay greater than 25 days as reported on the hospital's 2008 | ||
Medicaid cost report on file as of February 15, 2010, or a | ||
hospital that begins operations after January 1, 2009 2010 and | ||
is designated by Medicare as a long term acute care hospital. | ||
(h) "LTAC hospital criteria" means nationally recognized | ||
evidence-based evaluation criteria that have been publicly | ||
tested and includes criteria specific to an LTAC hospital for | ||
admission, continuing stay, and discharge. The criteria cannot | ||
include criteria derived or developed by or for a specific | ||
hospital or group of hospitals. Criteria and tools developed by | ||
hospitals or hospital associations or hospital-owned | ||
organizations are not acceptable and do not meet the | ||
requirements of this subsection. | ||
(i) "Patient" means an individual who is admitted to a | ||
hospital for an inpatient stay. | ||
(j) "Program" means the Long Term Acute Care Hospital | ||
Quality Improvement Transfer Program established by this Act. | ||
(k) "STAC hospital" means a hospital that is not an LTAC | ||
hospital as defined in this Act or a psychiatric hospital or a | ||
rehabilitation hospital.
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(Source: P.A. 96-1130, eff. 7-20-10.)
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