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Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Removes a provision that requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to post the contracted claims report required by HealthChoice Illinois on its website every 3 months. Effective immediately.
Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Consumer Choice in Maternal Care for African-American Mothers Program Act. Requires the Task Force on Infant and Maternal Mortality Among African Americans to partner with Holistic Birth Collective to develop rules for a Medicaid voucher program to expand consumer choice for Black mothers that includes planned home birth services and in-home perinatal and postpartum care services provided by racially concordant nationally accredited certified professional midwives who are licensed and registered in Illinois. Requires the Task Force to submit reports to the General Assembly, beginning January 1, 2024, and each January 1 thereafter, that provide a status update on the program and annual impact measure reporting. Provides that the program shall implement a maternity episode payment model that provides a single payment for all services across the prenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal period which covers the 9 months of pregnancy plus 12 weeks of postpartum. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to make available to the Task Force all relevant data related to maternal care expenditures made under the State's Medical Assistance Program so that budget-neutral reimbursement rates can be established for bundled maternal care services spanning the prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum phases of a maternity episode. Effective January 1, 2022.
House Floor Amendment No. 4 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts House Amendment No. 3 with the following changes. Provides that the Task Force on Infant and Maternal Mortality Among African Americans shall partner with Holistic Birth Collective to advise the Department of Healthcare and Family Services on the development of a Medicaid voucher program that is eligible for federal dollars to expand consumer choice for Black mothers that includes planned home birth services and in-home perinatal and postpartum care services provided by racially concordant nationally accredited certified professional midwives who are licensed and registered in Illinois. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services and the Department of Public Health are authorized to adopt rules to implement the new provisions. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services must apply for a State Plan amendment no later than December 31, 2022.
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