Appropriates $250,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for funding the Dental Loan Repayment Assistance Program. Effective July 1, 2011.
Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the bonding requirement.
Amends the Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the Act.
Amends the Children's Health Insurance Program Act. Deletes dental services from the definition of "coordinated care" and "care coordination". Effective immediately.
In addition to amounts already appropriated, the amount of $150,000 is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services for the purpose of administering and coordinating the Donated Orthodontic Services and the Dental Lifeline Network programs. Effective July 1, 2011.
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to make a new rate determination for all facilities licensed by the Department of Public Health under the ID/DD Community Care Act as Intermediate Care for the Developmentally Disabled facilities or Long Term Care for Under Age 22 facilities. Provides that the amount of the payment rate shall be prospectively established annually on the basis of historical, financial, and statistical data reflecting actual costs from prior years beginning with the most recent cost reports on file with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services for fiscal year 2011, which shall be applied to the current rate year and updated for inflation, except that the capital cost element for newly constructed facilities shall be based upon projected budgets. The annually established payment rate shall take effect on July 1 in 2012 and subsequent years. Effective immediately.
Amends the Nonresident College Trustees Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning eligibility for the office of trustee.
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that in the event hospitals are deemed not to have reached the $40,000,000 in reduced expenditures as set forth under the Code, then for any individual hospital not meeting its established threshold, the Department of Public Health shall assess a penalty payment equal to one-half the amount of the differential between the hospital's actual liability related to readmissions and that of the threshold amount. Provides that these penalty payments shall be deposited into the Healthcare Provider Relief Fund and that in the event the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finds that the penalty payments are an impermissible healthcare-related tax, the penalty payments shall be doubled. Further provides that the expenditures are to be defined as General Revenue Fund-based expenditures. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that a treatment program involving the administration of Methadone may not be located within 1,000 feet of a school building or real property comprising any school that persons under 18 years of age attend. Provides that a home rule unit may not regulate Methadone clinics in a manner that is less restrictive than the manner provided in this provision. Effective immediately.
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that no later than November 1, 2012, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall promulgate and file a regulation defining criteria utilized for granting prior authorization for non-preferred medications; criteria utilized for denying a request for prior authorization; criteria utilized for approval or denial of a request for prior authorization made to any managed care entity under contract with the State to administer pharmaceutical drug benefits to any recipient of medical assistance benefits; and other matters. Provides that prior to promulgating this regulation, the Department shall consult with recipients of aid, health care advocates, including mental health care advocates, and providers. Grants the Department the authority to use preemptory rulemaking, in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, to place into the Illinois Administrative Code the criteria, appeal process, and policies set forth. Effective immediately.
