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| 1 | AN ACT concerning health.
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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 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Public | ||||||
| 5 | Health Program Beneficiary Employer Disclosure Act. | ||||||
| 6 | Section 5. Definition. In this Act, "public health program" | ||||||
| 7 | means either of the following: | ||||||
| 8 | (1) The medical assistance program under Article V of | ||||||
| 9 | the Illinois Public Aid Code. | ||||||
| 10 | (2) The children's health insurance program under the | ||||||
| 11 | Children's Health Insurance Program Act. | ||||||
| 12 | Section 10. Disclosure of employer required. An applicant | ||||||
| 13 | for health care benefits under a public health program, or a | ||||||
| 14 | person requesting uncompensated care in a hospital, must | ||||||
| 15 | identify the employer or employers of the proposed beneficiary | ||||||
| 16 | of the health care benefits. If the proposed public health | ||||||
| 17 | program beneficiary is not employed, the applicant must | ||||||
| 18 | identify the employer or employers of any adult who is | ||||||
| 19 | responsible for providing all or some of the proposed | ||||||
| 20 | beneficiary's support.
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| 21 | Section 15. Reporting of employer-provided health | ||||||
| 22 | insurance information. | ||||||
| 23 | (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the | ||||||
| 24 | Department of Public Aid or its successor agency, in | ||||||
| 25 | collaboration with the Department of Human Services and the | ||||||
| 26 | Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, shall | ||||||
| 27 | annually prepare a public health access program beneficiary | ||||||
| 28 | employer report to be submitted to the General Assembly. For | ||||||
| 29 | the purposes of this Section, a "public health access program | ||||||
| 30 | beneficiary" means a person who receives medical assistance | ||||||
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| 1 | under Title XIX or XXI of the federal Social Security Act.
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| 2 | Subject to federal approval, the report shall provide the | ||||||
| 3 | following information for each employer who has more than 100 | ||||||
| 4 | employees and 50 or more public health access beneficiaries:
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| 5 | (1) The name and address of the qualified employer.
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| 6 | (2) The number of public health access program | ||||||
| 7 | beneficiaries.
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| 8 | (3) The number of public health access program | ||||||
| 9 | beneficiaries who are spouses or dependents of employees of | ||||||
| 10 | the employer.
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| 11 | (4) Information on whether the employer offers health | ||||||
| 12 | insurance benefits to employees and their dependents.
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| 13 | (5) Information on whether the employer receives | ||||||
| 14 | health insurance benefits through the company. | ||||||
| 15 | (6) Whether an employer offers health insurance | ||||||
| 16 | benefits, and, if so, information on the level of premium | ||||||
| 17 | subsidies for such health insurance.
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| 18 | (7) The cost to the State of Illinois of providing | ||||||
| 19 | public health access program benefits for the employer's | ||||||
| 20 | employees and enrolled dependents.
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| 21 | (b) The report shall not include the names of any | ||||||
| 22 | individual public health access program beneficiary and shall | ||||||
| 23 | be subject to privacy standard both in the Health Insurance | ||||||
| 24 | Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and in Title XIX of | ||||||
| 25 | the federal Social Security Act. | ||||||
| 26 | (c) The first report shall be submitted on or before | ||||||
| 27 | October 1, 2006, and subsequent reports shall be submitted on | ||||||
| 28 | or before that date each year thereafter.
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