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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB1888 Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. Robert Peters SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Administration Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning July 1, 2023, and each State fiscal year thereafter, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall increase the Prospective Payment System rates for federally qualified health centers by $100,000,000 using an alternative payment method acceptable to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and a trade association representing a majority of federally qualified health centers operating in Illinois, including a rate increase that is an equal percentage increase to the rates paid to each federally qualified health center. Effective July 1, 2023.
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| | A BILL FOR |
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| | SB1888 | | LRB103 30578 KTG 57015 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning public aid.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by |
| 5 | | adding Section 12-4.57 as follows:
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| 6 | | (305 ILCS 5/12-4.57 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 12-4.57. Prospective Payment System rates; increase |
| 8 | | for federally qualified health centers. Beginning July 1, |
| 9 | | 2023, and each State fiscal year thereafter, the Department of |
| 10 | | Healthcare and Family Services shall increase the Prospective |
| 11 | | Payment System rates for federally qualified health centers by |
| 12 | | $100,000,000 using an alternative payment method acceptable to |
| 13 | | the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and a trade |
| 14 | | association representing a majority of federally qualified |
| 15 | | health centers operating in Illinois, including a rate |
| 16 | | increase that is an equal percentage increase to the rates |
| 17 | | paid to each federally qualified health center.
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| 18 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, |
| 19 | | 2023.
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