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305 ILCS 5/5-32

    (305 ILCS 5/5-32)
    Sec. 5-32. Medicaid research and education enhancement payments.

(a) The Department shall make Medicaid enhancement payments to Tier I and Tier II academic medical centers as defined in Section 5-5e.2 of this Code identified as primary affiliates by any university or college that makes a donation to the Medicaid Research and Education Support Fund.

(b) By April 30 of each year, a university or college that intends to make a donation to the Medicaid Research and Education Support Fund for the upcoming State fiscal year must notify the Department of this intent and identify a primary Tier I or Tier II academic medical center as defined in Section 5-5e.2 of this Code.

(c) Only Tier I and Tier II academic medical centers as defined in Section 5-5e.2 of this Code identified by a university or college as required under subsection (b) of this Section are eligible to receive payments under this Section.

(d) Reimbursement methodology. The Department shall develop a reimbursement methodology consistent with this Section for distribution of moneys from the funds in a manner that would allow distributions from these funds to be matchable under Title XIX of the Social Security Act. The Department may enhance payment rates to any combination of Medicaid inpatient or outpatient Medicaid services. The Department may enhance Medicaid physician services for physicians employed by Tier I or Tier II academic medical centers as defined in Section 5-5e.2 of this Code qualified to receive payment under this Section if the Department and the Tier I or Tier II academic medical centers as defined in Section 5-5e.2 of this Code agree prior to the start of the State fiscal year for which payments are made. The Department shall promulgate rules necessary to make these distributions matchable.

(e) The Department of Healthcare and Family Services must submit a State Medicaid Plan Amendment to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement the payments under this Section within 60 days of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly.

(f) Reimbursements or payments by the State. Nothing in this Section may be used to reduce reimbursements or payments by the State to a hospital under any other Act.

(Source: P.A. 98-104, eff. 7-22-13.)