HB0614eng 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB0614 Engrossed LRB096 03596 DRJ 16427 b

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 5-5.4a as follows:

(305 ILCS 5/5-5.4a)

Sec. 5-5.4a. Intermediate Care Facility for the Developmentally Disabled; bed reserve payments.

The The Department of Public Aid shall promulgate rules by October 1, 1993 which establish a policy of bed reserve payments to Intermediate Care Facilities for the Developmentally Disabled which addresses the needs of residents of Intermediate Care Facilities for the Developmentally Disabled (ICF/DD) and their families.

(a) When a resident of an Intermediate Care Facility for the Developmentally Disabled (ICF/DD) is absent from the ICF/DD in which he or she is a resident for purposes of physician authorized in-patient admission to a hospital, the Department's rules shall, at a minimum, provide (1) bed reserve payments at a daily rate which is 100% of the client's current per diem rate, for a period not exceeding 10 consecutive days; (2) bed reserve payments at a daily rate which is 75% of a client's current per diem rate, for a period which exceeds 10 consecutive days but does not exceed 30 consecutive days; and (3) bed reserve payments at a daily rate which is 50% of a client's current per diem rate for a period which exceeds thirty consecutive days but does not exceed 45 consecutive days.

(b) When a resident of an Intermediate Care Facility for the Developmentally Disabled (ICF/DD) is absent from the ICF/DD in which he or she is a resident for purposes of a home visit with a family member the Department's rules shall, at a minimum, provide (1) bed reserve payments at a rate which is 100% of a client's current per diem rate, for a period not exceeding 10 days per State fiscal year; and (2) bed reserve payments at a rate which is 75% of a client's current per diem rate, for a period which exceeds 10 days per State fiscal year but does not exceed 30 days per State fiscal year.

(c) No Department rule regarding bed reserve payments shall require an ICF/DD to have a specified percentage of total facility occupancy as a requirement for receiving bed reserve payments.

This Section 5-5.4a shall not apply to any State operated facilities.

(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)