Full Text of SB1986 94th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning public aid.
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| WHEREAS, The General Assembly has long viewed one-stop | 3 |
| service in the human services as a vital goal in order to serve | 4 |
| clients in the most effective and most cost-efficient fashion; | 5 |
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| WHEREAS, The vision of one-stop service was a fundamental | 7 |
| reason for creating the Department of Human Services; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, One-stop service became possible in 1999 when a | 9 |
| new data warehouse became operational at the Department of | 10 |
| Public Aid; and | 11 |
| WHEREAS, The data warehouse has enabled the Department of | 12 |
| Public Aid for the first time to optimally manage the $10 | 13 |
| billion Medicaid budget program, enabled the Inspector General | 14 |
| to identify hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent | 15 |
| claims, and given members of the General Assembly and the | 16 |
| Department ready access to information for policy | 17 |
| decision-making not possible without the data warehouse; and | 18 |
| WHEREAS, Computer World Smithsonian designated the | 19 |
| Illinois data warehouse as the best Medicaid Management System | 20 |
| in the United States of America; and | 21 |
| WHEREAS, Illinois expanded its data warehouse in 2003 to | 22 |
| accomplish additional cost and functional efficiencies; and | 23 |
| WHEREAS, The data warehouse is an indispensable | 24 |
| administrative tool necessary to comply with increasingly | 25 |
| complex Medicaid regulations, specifically new Medicaid | 26 |
| prescription drug benefit rules, and necessary to position | 27 |
| Illinois to continue benefiting from increasingly more | 28 |
| difficult-to-attain federal funding opportunities available | 29 |
| only to states that enjoy access to prompt, accurate | 30 |
| information from a data warehouse; therefore, | 31 |
| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by |
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| changing Section 12-4.201 and adding Section 12-4.202 as | 2 |
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| (305 ILCS 5/12-4.201)
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| Sec. 12-4.201. | 5 |
| (a) Data warehouse concerning medical and related
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| services. The Illinois Department of Public Aid may purchase | 7 |
| services and
materials associated with the costs of developing | 8 |
| and implementing a data
warehouse comprised of management and | 9 |
| decision making information in
regard to the liability | 10 |
| associated with, and utilization of, medical and
related | 11 |
| services, out of moneys available for that purpose. | 12 |
| (b) The Department of Public Aid shall perform all | 13 |
| necessary administrative functions to expand its | 14 |
| linearly-scalable data warehouse to encompass other healthcare | 15 |
| data sources at both the Department of Human Services and the | 16 |
| Department of Public Health. The Department of Public Aid shall | 17 |
| leverage the inherent capabilities of the data warehouse to | 18 |
| accomplish this expansion with marginal additional technical | 19 |
| administration. The purpose of
this expansion is to allow for | 20 |
| programmatic review and analysis including the | 21 |
| interrelatedness among the various healthcare programs in | 22 |
| order to ascertain effectiveness toward, and ultimate impact | 23 |
| on, clients and populations. Beginning
July 1, 2005, the | 24 |
| Department of Public Aid shall supply quarterly reports to the | 25 |
| Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability | 26 |
| detailing progress toward this mandate.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-9, eff. 7-1-97.)
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| (305 ILCS 5/12-4.202 new) | 29 |
| Sec. 12-4.202. Data Warehouse Inter-Agency Coordination of | 30 |
| Client Care Task Force. | 31 |
| (a) The Data Warehouse Inter-Agency Coordination of Client | 32 |
| Care Task Force is created. The task force shall consist of the | 33 |
| following: | 34 |
| (1) Eight voting members, appointed 2 each by the |
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| President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, | 2 |
| the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the | 3 |
| Minority Leader of the House of Representatives. | 4 |
| (2) Five ex officio, nonvoting members as follows: the | 5 |
| Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, | 6 |
| or his or her designee; the Director of Public Aid, or his | 7 |
| or her designee; the Director of Public Health, or his or | 8 |
| her designee; the Secretary of Human Services, or his or | 9 |
| her designee; and the Director of Children and Family | 10 |
| Services, or his or her designee. | 11 |
| The voting members of the task force shall elect from their | 12 |
| number 2 co-chairs of the task force. | 13 |
| Members of the task force shall serve without compensation | 14 |
| and are not entitled to reimbursement for their expenses | 15 |
| incurred in performing their duties. | 16 |
| Five affirmative votes are required for the task force to | 17 |
| take action. | 18 |
| (b) The task force shall gather information and make | 19 |
| recommendations relating to the following: | 20 |
| (1) The most effective flow of information between | 21 |
| agencies that serve the same clients through one-stop | 22 |
| shopping across State government. | 23 |
| (2) The creation of an overarching system to respond to | 24 |
| requests by the General Assembly, the Office of the | 25 |
| Governor, and the general public. | 26 |
| (3) The most effective use of State moneys in procuring | 27 |
| the appropriate technology to obtain a system that can be | 28 |
| readily expanded to accommodate the ever-growing | 29 |
| information base in State government. | 30 |
| (c) The task force shall submit a report to the Governor | 31 |
| and the General Assembly no later than December 31, 2005. | 32 |
| (d) This Section is repealed on January 1, 2006. | 33 |
| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 34 |
| becoming law.
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