Bill Text: IL HB4915 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to establish and operate a case tracking system which shall be designed to collect, maintain, and monitor information on payments made by the Department on behalf of individuals eligible for medical assistance whose case files are marked as "inactive" in the Department's Medicaid Management Information System. Provides that the Department shall use the case tracking system to prevent payments from being made on behalf of an individual who was ineligible for medical assistance due to the person being deceased. Provides that to ensure the case tracking system contains the most up to date information on an individual whose name and case file is entered into the case tracking system, at least once a month the Department shall cross-reference the individual's name, social security number, and any other relevant information belonging to the individual with the death records information maintained by the Department of Public Health's Division of Vital Records. Requires the Department to adopt any rules necessary to implement the case tracking system.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4915 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4915-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4915 Introduced , by Rep. Steven Reick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
305 ILCS 5/5-39 new
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to establish and operate a case tracking system which shall be designed to collect, maintain, and monitor information on payments made by the Department on behalf of individuals eligible for medical assistance whose case files are marked as "inactive" in the Department's Medicaid Management Information System. Provides that the Department shall use the case tracking system to prevent payments from being made on behalf of an individual who was ineligible for medical assistance due to the person being deceased. Provides that to ensure the case tracking system contains the most up to date information on an individual whose name and case file is entered into the case tracking system, at least once a month the Department shall cross-reference the individual's name, social security number, and any other relevant information belonging to the individual with the death records information maintained by the Department of Public Health's Division of Vital Records. Requires the Department of adopt any rules necessary to implement the case tracking system.
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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
adding Section 5-39 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/5-39 new)
Sec. 5-39. Case tracking system; deceased recipients. The
Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall establish
and operate a case tracking system which shall be designed to
collect, maintain, and monitor information on payments made by
the Department on behalf of individuals eligible for medical
assistance whose case files are marked as "inactive" in the
Department's Medicaid Management Information System. The
Department shall use the case tracking system to prevent
payments from being made on behalf of an individual who was
ineligible for medical assistance under this Article due to the
person being deceased. To ensure the case tracking system
contains the most up to date information on an individual whose
name and case file is entered into the case tracking system, at
least once a month the Department shall cross-reference the
individual's name, social security number, and any other
relevant information belonging to the individual with the death
records information maintained by the Department of Public

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Health's Division of Vital Records. If the Department
determines that the individual is deceased, the Department
shall add the individual's date of death to the case tracking
system and take all necessary steps to ensure no payments are
made on behalf of the deceased individual. The Department shall
adopt any rules necessary to implement the provisions of this
Section.