103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB3749

 

Introduced 2/9/2024, by Sen. Robert F. Martwick

 

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

 

SB3749LRB103 38250 KTG 68385 b

1    AN ACT concerning public aid.
 
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 5-2.06 as follows:
 
6    (305 ILCS 5/5-2.06)
7    Sec. 5-2.06. Payment rates; Children's Community-Based
8Health Care Centers. Beginning January 1, 2025 2020, the
9Department shall, for eligible individuals, reimburse
10Children's Community-Based Health Care Centers established in
11the Alternative Health Care Delivery Act and providing nursing
12care for the purpose of transitioning children from a hospital
13to home placement or other appropriate setting and reuniting
14families for a maximum of up to 120 days on a per diem basis at
15the lower of the Children's Community-Based Health Care
16Center's usual and customary charge to the public or at the
17Department rate of $1650 $950. Payments at the rate set forth
18in this Section are exempt from the 2.7% rate reduction
19required under Section 5-5e.
20(Source: P.A. 101-10, eff. 6-5-19.)
 
21    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
221, 2025.