Bill Title: Creates the Mental Health Modernization and Access Improvement Act. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver or State Plan amendment, or both, within 6 months after the effective date of the Act to develop and implement a regulatory framework that allows, incentivizes, and fosters payment reform models for all Medicaid community mental health services provided by community mental health centers or behavioral health clinics. Requires the regulatory framework to: (i) allow for and incentivize service innovation that is aimed at producing the best health outcomes for Medicaid enrollees with mental health conditions; (ii) reward high-quality care through annual incentive payments to community mental health centers and behavioral health clinics; (iii) require community mental health centers and behavioral health clinics to report on specified quality and outcomes metrics; and other matters. Provides that all documentation and reporting requirements under the regulatory framework must comply with the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 and the State mental health parity requirements under the Illinois Insurance Code. Contains provisions concerning quality and outcomes metrics reporting; data sharing; the establishment of a Stakeholder Quality and Outcomes Metrics Development Working Group; statewide in-person trainings to ensure provider readiness for the regulatory framework; quality and patient safety protections; implementation timeline; certification of community mental health centers that opt into the regulatory framework; and other matters. Provides that the Act shall be implemented upon federal approval and only to the extent that federal financial participation is available. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-22 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jonathan "Yoni" Pizer [HB2486 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Representative Deborah Conroy [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-046	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Sara Feigenholtz [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-006	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-017	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Elizabeth Hernandez [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-002	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Michelle Mussman [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-056	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Robyn Gabel [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-018	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Melissa Conyears-Ervin [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-010	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kelly Cassidy [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-014	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Terra Costa Howard [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-042	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Martin Moylan [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-055	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Ann Williams [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-011	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Natalie Manley [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-098	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Mary Edly-Allen [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-031	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kathleen Willis [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-077	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Diane Pappas [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-023	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Frances Hurley [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-035	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Rita Mayfield [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-060	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Katie Stuart [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-112	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Emanuel Welch [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-007	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Karina Villa [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-025	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Delia Ramirez [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-004	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Bob Morgan [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-058	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Robert Rita [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-028	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Theresa Mah [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-024	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Yehiel Kalish [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-016	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Will Guzzardi [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-039	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Tom Demmer [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-090	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Ryan Spain [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-073	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Amy Grant [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-047	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jonathan Carroll [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-057	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Maurice West [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-067	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Monica Bristow [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-111	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Lindsey LaPointe [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-019	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jonathan Pizer [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-012	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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