Bill Text: IL HB4091 | 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 concerning the $630 per diem rate to be paid to safety net-hospitals for inpatient psychiatric services on and after January 1, 2021, removes language making the payment rate subject to appropriation. Effective July 1, 2021.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-25 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4091 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB4091-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB4091 Introduced , by Rep. Camille Y. Lilly SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
305 ILCS 5/5-5.05
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision concerning the $630 per diem rate to be paid to safety net-hospitals for inpatient psychiatric services on and after January 1, 2021, removes language making the payment rate subject to appropriation. Effective July 1, 2021.
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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 5-5.05 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/5-5.05)
Sec. 5-5.05. Hospitals; psychiatric services.
(a) On and after July 1, 2008, the inpatient, per diem rate
to be paid to a hospital for inpatient psychiatric services
shall be $363.77.
(b) For purposes of this Section, "hospital" means the
following:
(1) Advocate Christ Hospital, Oak Lawn, Illinois.
(2) Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri.
(3) BroMenn Healthcare, Bloomington, Illinois.
(4) Jackson Park Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
(5) Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital, Dixon, Illinois.
(6) Lawrence County Memorial Hospital, Lawrenceville,
Illinois.
(7) Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge,
Illinois.
(8) Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago,
Illinois.

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(9) Methodist Medical Center of Illinois, Peoria,
Illinois.
(10) Provena United Samaritans Medical Center,
Danville, Illinois.
(11) Rockford Memorial Hospital, Rockford, Illinois.
(12) Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center, Mattoon,
Illinois.
(13) Provena Covenant Medical Center, Urbana,
Illinois.
(14) Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center,
Chicago, Illinois.
(15) Mt. Sinai Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
(16) Gateway Regional Medical Center, Granite City,
Illinois.
(17) St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
(18) Provena St. Mary's Hospital, Kankakee, Illinois.
(19) St. Mary's Hospital, Decatur, Illinois.
(20) Memorial Hospital, Belleville, Illinois.
(21) Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
(22) Trinity Medical Center, Rock Island, Illinois.
(23) St. Elizabeth Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
(24) Richland Memorial Hospital, Olney, Illinois.
(25) St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Belleville, Illinois.
(26) Samaritan Health System, Clinton, Iowa.
(27) St. John's Hospital, Springfield, Illinois.
(28) St. Mary's Hospital, Centralia, Illinois.

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(29) Loretto Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
(30) Kenneth Hall Regional Hospital, East St. Louis,
Illinois.
(31) Hinsdale Hospital, Hinsdale, Illinois.
(32) Pekin Hospital, Pekin, Illinois.
(33) University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago,
Illinois.
(34) St. Anthony's Health Center, Alton, Illinois.
(35) OSF St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois.
(36) Memorial Medical Center, Springfield, Illinois.
(37) A hospital with a distinct part unit for
psychiatric services that begins operating on or after
July 1, 2008.
For purposes of this Section, "inpatient psychiatric
services" means those services provided to patients who are in
need of short-term acute inpatient hospitalization for active
treatment of an emotional or mental disorder.
(b-5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section,
and subject to appropriation, the inpatient, per diem rate to
be paid to all safety-net hospitals for inpatient psychiatric
services on and after January 1, 2021 shall be at least $630.
(c) No rules shall be promulgated to implement this
Section. For purposes of this Section, "rules" is given the
meaning contained in Section 1-70 of the Illinois
Administrative Procedure Act.
(d) This Section shall not be in effect during any period

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of time that the State has in place a fully operational
hospital assessment plan that has been approved by the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
(e) On and after July 1, 2012, the Department shall reduce
any rate of reimbursement for services or other payments or
alter any methodologies authorized by this Code to reduce any
rate of reimbursement for services or other payments in
accordance with Section 5-5e.
(Source: P.A. 102-4, eff. 4-27-21.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2021.