Bill Text: IL SB1680 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Amends the Hospital Provider Funding Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Extends the imposition of annual assessments on hospital inpatient services through State fiscal year 2016 (rather than State fiscal year 2013). Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB1680 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB1680-Amended.html

Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Filed: 5/29/2011

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1680
2 AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1680 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
5changing Section 5A-2 as follows:
6 (305 ILCS 5/5A-2) (from Ch. 23, par. 5A-2)
7 (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2014)
8 Sec. 5A-2. Assessment.
9 (a) Subject to Sections 5A-3 and and 5A-10, an annual
10assessment on inpatient services is imposed on each hospital
11provider in an amount equal to the hospital's occupied bed days
12multiplied by $84.19 multiplied by the proration factor for
13State fiscal year 2004 and the hospital's occupied bed days
14multiplied by $84.19 for State fiscal year 2005.
15 For State fiscal years 2004 and 2005, the Department of
16Healthcare and Family Services shall use the number of occupied

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1bed days as reported by each hospital on the Annual Survey of
2Hospitals conducted by the Department of Public Health to
3calculate the hospital's annual assessment. If the sum of a
4hospital's occupied bed days is not reported on the Annual
5Survey of Hospitals or if there are data errors in the reported
6sum of a hospital's occupied bed days as determined by the
7Department of Healthcare and Family Services (formerly
8Department of Public Aid), then the Department of Healthcare
9and Family Services may obtain the sum of occupied bed days
10from any source available, including, but not limited to,
11records maintained by the hospital provider, which may be
12inspected at all times during business hours of the day by the
13Department of Healthcare and Family Services or its duly
14authorized agents and employees.
15 Subject to Sections 5A-3 and 5A-10, for the privilege of
16engaging in the occupation of hospital provider, beginning
17August 1, 2005, an annual assessment is imposed on each
18hospital provider for State fiscal years 2006, 2007, and 2008,
19in an amount equal to 2.5835% of the hospital provider's
20adjusted gross hospital revenue for inpatient services and
212.5835% of the hospital provider's adjusted gross hospital
22revenue for outpatient services. If the hospital provider's
23adjusted gross hospital revenue is not available, then the
24Illinois Department may obtain the hospital provider's
25adjusted gross hospital revenue from any source available,
26including, but not limited to, records maintained by the

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1hospital provider, which may be inspected at all times during
2business hours of the day by the Illinois Department or its
3duly authorized agents and employees.
4 Subject to Sections 5A-3 and 5A-10, for State fiscal years
52009 through 2014, an annual assessment on inpatient services
6is imposed on each hospital provider in an amount equal to
7$218.38 multiplied by the difference of the hospital's occupied
8bed days less the hospital's Medicare bed days.
9 For State fiscal years 2009 through 2014, a hospital's
10occupied bed days and Medicare bed days shall be determined
11using the most recent data available from each hospital's 2005
12Medicare cost report as contained in the Healthcare Cost Report
13Information System file, for the quarter ending on December 31,
142006, without regard to any subsequent adjustments or changes
15to such data. If a hospital's 2005 Medicare cost report is not
16contained in the Healthcare Cost Report Information System,
17then the Illinois Department may obtain the hospital provider's
18occupied bed days and Medicare bed days from any source
19available, including, but not limited to, records maintained by
20the hospital provider, which may be inspected at all times
21during business hours of the day by the Illinois Department or
22its duly authorized agents and employees.
23 (b) (Blank).
24 (c) (Blank).
25 (d) Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this
26Section, the Department is authorized, during this 94th General

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1Assembly, to adopt rules to reduce the rate of any annual
2assessment imposed under this Section, as authorized by Section
35-46.2 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.
4 (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section,
5any plan providing for an assessment on a hospital provider as
6a permissible tax under Title XIX of the federal Social
7Security Act and Medicaid-eligible payments to hospital
8providers from the revenues derived from that assessment shall
9be reviewed by the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family
10Services, as the Single State Medicaid Agency required by
11federal law, to determine whether those assessments and
12hospital provider payments meet federal Medicaid standards. If
13the Department determines that the elements of the plan may
14meet federal Medicaid standards and a related State Medicaid
15Plan Amendment is prepared in a manner and form suitable for
16submission, that State Plan Amendment shall be submitted in a
17timely manner for review by the Centers for Medicare and
18Medicaid Services of the United States Department of Health and
19Human Services and subject to approval by the Centers for
20Medicare and Medicaid Services of the United States Department
21of Health and Human Services. No such plan shall become
22effective without approval by the Illinois General Assembly by
23the enactment into law of related legislation. Notwithstanding
24any other provision of this Section, the Department is
25authorized to adopt rules to reduce the rate of any annual
26assessment imposed under this Section. Any such rules may be

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1adopted by the Department under Section 5-50 of the Illinois
2Administrative Procedure Act.
3(Source: P.A. 95-859, eff. 8-19-08; 96-1530, eff. 2-16-11.)".
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