Bill Text: IL HB4778 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning January 1, 2025, the Department of Children and Family Services shall reimburse Children's Community-Based Health Care Centers at the lower of the Children's Community-Based Health Care Center's usual and customary charge to the public or at the Department rate of $1650 (rather than $950). Effective January 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-06 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4778 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4778-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4778 Introduced , by Rep. Lindsey LaPointe SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
305 ILCS 5/5-2.06
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning January 1, 2025, the Department of Children and Family Services shall reimburse Children's Community-Based Health Care Centers at the lower of the Children's Community-Based Health Care Center's usual and customary charge to the public or at the Department rate of $1650 (rather than $950). Effective January 1, 2025.
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A BILL FOR
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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 5-2.06 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/5-2.06)
Sec. 5-2.06. Payment rates; Children's Community-Based
Health Care Centers. Beginning January 1, 2025 2020, the
Department shall, for eligible individuals, reimburse
Children's Community-Based Health Care Centers established in
the Alternative Health Care Delivery Act and providing nursing
care for the purpose of transitioning children from a hospital
to home placement or other appropriate setting and reuniting
families for a maximum of up to 120 days on a per diem basis at
the lower of the Children's Community-Based Health Care
Center's usual and customary charge to the public or at the
Department rate of $1650 $950. Payments at the rate set forth
in this Section are exempt from the 2.7% rate reduction
required under Section 5-5e.
(Source: P.A. 101-10, eff. 6-5-19.)