DHFS-NURSING FACILTY-PAYMENTS

Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that specified increased payments and assessments for long-term care providers are not due and payable until after the Department of Healthcare and Family Services notifies the long-term care providers, in writing, that the payment methodologies to long-term care providers required under specified provisions of the Code have been approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and that federal waivers for the assessment imposed under specified provisions of the Code have been granted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Effective immediately.