Bill Text: IL HB3788 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning health facilities.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Long Term Acute Care Hospital Quality | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Improvement Transfer Program Act is amended by changing Section | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | 10 as follows:
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7 | (210 ILCS 155/10)
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8 | Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | (a) "CARE tool" means the Continuity and Record Evaluation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | (CARE) tool. It is a patient assessment instrument that has | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | been developed to document the medical, cognitive, functional, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | and discharge status of persons receiving health care services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | in acute and post-acute care settings. The data collected is | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | able to document provider-level quality of care (patient | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | outcomes) and characterize the clinical complexity of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | patients. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | (b) "Department" means the Illinois Department of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Healthcare and Family Services. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | (c) "Discharge" means the release of a patient from | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | hospital care for any discharge disposition other than a leave | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | of absence, even if for Medicare payment purposes the discharge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | fits the definition of an interrupted stay.
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23 | (d) "FTE" means "full-time equivalent" or a person or |
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1 | persons employed in one full-time position. | ||||||
2 | (e) "Hospital" means an institution, place, building, or | ||||||
3 | agency located in this State that is licensed as a general | ||||||
4 | acute hospital by the Illinois Department of Public Health | ||||||
5 | under the Hospital Licensing Act, whether public or private and | ||||||
6 | whether organized for profit or not-for-profit. | ||||||
7 | (f) "ICU" means intensive care unit. | ||||||
8 | (g) "LTAC hospital" means a hospital that is designated by | ||||||
9 | Medicare as a long term acute care hospital as described in | ||||||
10 | Section 1886(d)(1)(B)(iv)(I) of the Social Security Act and has | ||||||
11 | an average length of Medicaid inpatient stay greater than 25 | ||||||
12 | days as reported on the hospital's 2008 Medicaid cost report on | ||||||
13 | file as of February 15, 2010, or a hospital that begins | ||||||
14 | operations after January 1, 2009 2010 and is designated by | ||||||
15 | Medicare as a long term acute care hospital. | ||||||
16 | (h) "LTAC hospital criteria" means nationally recognized | ||||||
17 | evidence-based evaluation criteria that have been publicly | ||||||
18 | tested and includes criteria specific to an LTAC hospital for | ||||||
19 | admission, continuing stay, and discharge. The criteria cannot | ||||||
20 | include criteria derived or developed by or for a specific | ||||||
21 | hospital or group of hospitals. Criteria and tools developed by | ||||||
22 | hospitals or hospital associations or hospital-owned | ||||||
23 | organizations are not acceptable and do not meet the | ||||||
24 | requirements of this subsection. | ||||||
25 | (i) "Patient" means an individual who is admitted to a | ||||||
26 | hospital for an inpatient stay. |
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1 | (j) "Program" means the Long Term Acute Care Hospital | ||||||
2 | Quality Improvement Transfer Program established by this Act. | ||||||
3 | (k) "STAC hospital" means a hospital that is not an LTAC | ||||||
4 | hospital as defined in this Act or a psychiatric hospital or a | ||||||
5 | rehabilitation hospital.
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6 | (Source: P.A. 96-1130, eff. 7-20-10.)
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