Bill Text: IL HR0971 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urges the Governor and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to contract with an external expert entity that has prior experience collecting statewide mammography quality data to perform the Department's quality improvement program and to provide each participating facility with a mammography quality report annually. Urges the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to contract with an external expert entity that has prior experience collecting breast cancer treatment data from safety net providers in Illinois and is a federally designated Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Organization. Urges the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to immediately implement all other components of the BEST Act and to work with breast cancer advocates and breast cancer clinical experts to ensure that the Illinois Medicaid program provides the highest quality breast cancer screening and treatment to women served by Illinois Medicaid.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HR0971 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HR0971-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast
cancer during their lifetime; and
WHEREAS, Women whose breast cancer is diagnosed early
before it has spread have an almost 100% chance of being alive
five years later; and
WHEREAS, Early detection of breast cancer and timely follow
up, coupled with guideline concordant treatment is critical to
survival from breast cancer; and
WHEREAS, A University of Illinois at Chicago study found
that poor women, minority women, and women without any private
health insurance were far more likely to have their breast
cancers missed on a screening mammogram; and
WHEREAS, Both University of Illinois at Chicago and
Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force studies have
found significant variation in the quality of mammography, with
minority women, poor women, and women with less education more
likely to receive poorer quality mammography resulting in later
stage diagnosis; and
WHEREAS, Both University of Illinois at Chicago and the

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Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force studies find
significant fragmentation of care experienced by poor women
entering the healthcare system at lower resourced facilities,
with delays experienced in follow up and loss to follow up
resulting in poorer breast cancer outcomes for poor women,
minority women, and women with less education; and
WHEREAS, To address the challenges with mammography
quality, two pieces of prior legislation (Public Act 95-1045
and Public Act 97-638) were signed into law and the Department
of Healthcare and Family Services established a statewide
mammography quality program with two rounds of data
successfully collected; and
WHEREAS, The Department of Healthcare and Family Services
has not administered this women's healthcare quality
improvement program required by law for two years and has no
internal capacity to administer such a program; and
WHEREAS, To address the challenges with respect to quality
of breast cancer treatment and fragmentation of care and the
barriers to receiving guideline concordant breast cancer
treatment, Governor Rauner signed the Breast Cancer Excellence
in Survival and Treatment act into law (Public Law 99-433) on
August 21, 2015; and

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WHEREAS, The Department of Healthcare and Family Services
has failed to implement the BEST Act including implementation
of a breast cancer treatment quality program as required by the
BEST Act, provisions in the BEST Act that require that all
networks of care have patient navigation for cancer patients
and that the Medicaid breast cancer patient navigation programs
be expanded; nor has the Department ensured that every women in
Medicaid is being offered and encouraged to utilize the
mammography coverage proscribed in the Public Aid code that
requires baseline coverage of mammography at age 35-39 and
annual mammography at age 40 onward; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
urge the Governor and the Department of Healthcare and Family
Services by July 1, 2018 to contract with an external expert
entity that has prior experience collecting statewide
mammography quality data to perform the Department's quality
improvement program and to provide each participating facility
with a mammography quality report annually; such entity should
be reimbursed at an annual rate of $230,000; and be it further
RESOLVED, That by July 1, 2018, the Department of
Healthcare and Family Services is urged to contract with an
external expert entity that has prior experience collecting
breast cancer treatment data from safety net providers in

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Illinois and is a federally designated Patient Safety and
Quality Improvement Organization as of January 1, 2018; this
entity should be responsible for developing a breast cancer
treatment quality program and will collaborate with the State's
cancer registry in so doing; such entity should be reimbursed
at an annual rate of $350,000; and be it further
RESOLVED, That that the Department of Healthcare and Family
Services is urged to immediately implement all other components
of the BEST Act and to work with breast cancer advocates and
breast cancer clinical experts to ensure that the Illinois
Medicaid program provides the highest quality breast cancer
screening and treatment to women served by Illinois Medicaid;
and be it further
RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
delivered to the Governor and to the Director of Healthcare and
Family Services.