101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4053

 

Introduced 1/13/2020, by Rep. Michael Halpin

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
305 ILCS 5/5E-5

    Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that, for the purposes of the nursing home bed fee, the term "provider" does not include any county that provides skilled nursing or intermediate long-term care services.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning revenue.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
5changing Section 5E-5 as follows:
 
6    (305 ILCS 5/5E-5)
7    Sec. 5E-5. Definitions. As used in this Article, unless the
8context requires otherwise:
9    "Nursing home" means (i) a skilled nursing or intermediate
10long-term care facility, whether public or private and whether
11organized for profit or not-for-profit, that is subject to
12licensure by the Illinois Department of Public Health under the
13Nursing Home Care Act, the ID/DD Community Care Act, or the
14MC/DD Act, including a county nursing home directed and
15maintained under Section 5-1005 of the Counties Code, and (ii)
16a part of a hospital in which skilled or intermediate long-term
17care services within the meaning of Title XVIII or XIX of the
18Social Security Act are provided; except that the term "nursing
19home" does not include a facility operated solely as an
20intermediate care facility for the intellectually disabled
21within the meaning of Title XIX of the Social Security Act or a
22specialized mental health rehabilitation facility.
23    "Nursing home provider" means (i) a person licensed by the

 

 

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1Department of Public Health to operate and maintain a skilled
2nursing or intermediate long-term care facility which charges
3its residents, a third party payor, Medicaid, or Medicare for
4skilled nursing or intermediate long-term care services, or
5(ii) a hospital provider that provides skilled or intermediate
6long-term care services within the meaning of Title XVIII or
7XIX of the Social Security Act. "Nursing home provider" does
8not include a person who operates or a provider who provides
9services within a specialized mental health rehabilitation
10facility. For purposes of this paragraph, "person" means any
11political subdivision of the State, municipal corporation,
12individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, limited
13liability company, association, joint stock association, or
14trust, or a receiver, executor, trustee, guardian, or other
15representative appointed by order of any court, but does not
16include any county that provides skilled nursing or
17intermediate long-term care services. "Hospital provider"
18means a person licensed by the Department of Public Health to
19conduct, operate, or maintain a hospital.
20    "Licensed bed days" shall be computed separately for each
21nursing home operated or maintained by a nursing home provider
22and means, with respect to a nursing home provider, the sum for
23all nursing home beds of the number of days during a calendar
24quarter on which each bed is covered by a license issued to
25that provider under the Nursing Home Care Act or the Hospital
26Licensing Act.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 99-180, eff. 7-29-15.)