SB3239 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB3239

Introduced 2/15/2018, by Sen. Don Harmon

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

210 ILCS 49/5-104 new

Amends the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013. Provides that for a specialized mental health rehabilitation facility licensed under the Act by December 1, 2017 or provisionally licensed under the Act by December 1, 2017, a payment shall be made for therapeutic visits that have been indicated by an interdisciplinary team as therapeutically beneficial. Provides that the payment shall be at a rate of 100% of the facility's rate on the effective date of the amendatory Act for the first 5 days. Provides that, thereafter, payment for a therapeutic visit shall be at 75% of the facility's rate on the effective date of the amendatory Act and may not exceed 30 days in a fiscal year and shall not exceed 10 days consecutively. Provides that payment to a facility for a therapeutic visit shall be available to the facility through both fee-for-service and managed care payment arrangements. Effective July 1, 2018.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013 is amended by adding Section 5-104 as follows:

(210 ILCS 49/5-104 new)

Sec. 5-104. Therapeutic visit rates. For a facility licensed under this Act by December 1, 2017 or provisionally licensed under this Act by December 1, 2017, a payment shall be made for therapeutic visits that have been indicated by an interdisciplinary team as therapeutically beneficial. Payment under this Section shall be at a rate of 100% of the facility's rate on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly for the first 5 days. Thereafter, payment for a therapeutic visit shall be at 75% of the facility's rate on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly and may not exceed 30 days in a fiscal year and shall not exceed 10 days consecutively. Payment to a facility for a therapeutic visit shall be available to the facility through both fee-for-service and managed care payment arrangements.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2018.