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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB2888
Introduced 2/22/2005, by Rep. Tom Cross SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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305 ILCS 5/5A-2 |
from Ch. 23, par. 5A-2 |
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Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning an assessment on inpatient
services that is imposed on
hospital
providers.
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A BILL FOR
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HB2888 |
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LRB094 08630 DRJ 38838 b |
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| AN ACT concerning public aid.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by |
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| changing Section 5A-2 as follows:
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| (305 ILCS 5/5A-2) (from Ch. 23, par. 5A-2) |
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2005) |
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| Sec. 5A-2. Assessment; no local authorization to tax.
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| (a) Subject to Sections 5A-3 and 5A-10, an annual |
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| assessment on inpatient
services is imposed on
each
hospital
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| provider in an amount equal to the hospital's occupied bed days |
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| multiplied by $84.19 multiplied by the proration factor for |
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| State fiscal year 2004 and
and the hospital's occupied bed days |
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| multiplied by $84.19 for State fiscal year 2005.
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| The
Department of Public Aid shall use the number of |
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| occupied bed days as reported
by
each hospital on the Annual |
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| Survey of Hospitals conducted by the
Department of Public |
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| Health to calculate the hospital's annual assessment. If
the |
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| sum
of a hospital's occupied bed days is not reported on the |
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| Annual Survey of
Hospitals or if there are data errors in the |
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| reported sum of a hospital's occupied bed days as determined by |
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| the Department of Public Aid, then the Department of Public Aid |
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| may obtain the sum of occupied bed
days
from any source |
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| available, including, but not limited to, records maintained by
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| the hospital provider, which may be inspected at all times |
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| during business
hours
of the day by the Department of Public |
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| Aid or its duly authorized agents and
employees.
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| (b) Nothing in this amendatory Act of the 93rd General |
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| Assembly
shall be construed to authorize
any home rule unit or |
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| other unit of local government to license for revenue or
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| impose a tax or assessment upon hospital providers or the |
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| occupation of
hospital provider, or a tax or assessment |