Bill Status of SB3942  97th General Assembly


Short Description:  IDPH-MEDICAID PENALTY PAYMENTS

Senate Sponsors
Sen. William Delgado - Mattie Hunter - Kimberly A. Lightford - Jacqueline Y. Collins

Last Action
DateChamber Action
  1/8/2013SenateSession Sine Die

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance
305 ILCS 5/5-5f


Synopsis As Introduced
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.

Actions 
DateChamber Action
  12/4/2012SenateFiled with Secretary by Sen. William Delgado
  12/4/2012SenateFirst Reading
  12/4/2012SenateReferred to Assignments
  12/5/2012SenateAdded as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Mattie Hunter
  12/6/2012SenateAdded as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Dave Syverson
  12/6/2012SenateAdded as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
  12/6/2012SenateAdded as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
  12/14/2012SenateSponsor Removed Sen. Dave Syverson
  1/8/2013SenateSession Sine Die