Executive Committee

Filed: 2/25/2009

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 614

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 614 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
5 changing Section 5-5.4a as follows:
 
6     (305 ILCS 5/5-5.4a)
7     Sec. 5-5.4a. Intermediate Care Facility for the
8 Developmentally Disabled; bed reserve payments.
9     The The Department of Public Aid shall promulgate rules by
10 October 1, 1993 which establish a policy of bed reserve
11 payments to Intermediate Care Facilities for the
12 Developmentally Disabled which addresses the needs of
13 residents of Intermediate Care Facilities for the
14 Developmentally Disabled (ICF/DD) and their families.
15     (a) When a resident of an Intermediate Care Facility for
16 the Developmentally Disabled (ICF/DD) is absent from the ICF/DD

 

 

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1 in which he or she is a resident for purposes of physician
2 authorized in-patient admission to a hospital, the
3 Department's rules shall, at a minimum, provide (1) bed reserve
4 payments at a daily rate which is 100% of the client's current
5 per diem rate, for a period not exceeding 10 consecutive days;
6 (2) bed reserve payments at a daily rate which is 75% of a
7 client's current per diem rate, for a period which exceeds 10
8 consecutive days but does not exceed 30 consecutive days; and
9 (3) bed reserve payments at a daily rate which is 50% of a
10 client's current per diem rate for a period which exceeds
11 thirty consecutive days but does not exceed 45 consecutive
12 days.
13     (b) When a resident of an Intermediate Care Facility for
14 the Developmentally Disabled (ICF/DD) is absent from the ICF/DD
15 in which he or she is a resident for purposes of a home visit
16 with a family member the Department's rules shall, at a
17 minimum, provide (1) bed reserve payments at a rate which is
18 100% of a client's current per diem rate, for a period not
19 exceeding 10 days per State fiscal year; and (2) bed reserve
20 payments at a rate which is 75% of a client's current per diem
21 rate, for a period which exceeds 10 days per State fiscal year
22 but does not exceed 30 days per State fiscal year.
23     (c) No Department rule regarding bed reserve payments shall
24 require an ICF/DD to have a specified percentage of total
25 facility occupancy as a requirement for receiving bed reserve
26 payments.

 

 

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1     This Section 5-5.4a shall not apply to any State operated
2 facilities.
3 (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)".