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| 1 | AN ACT concerning State government.
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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 Department of Human Services Act is amended | ||||||
| 5 | by adding Section 1-40 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (20 ILCS 1305/1-40 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 1-40. Alcoholism and Substance Abuse; Mental Health; | ||||||
| 8 | implementation plan. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) In this Section: | ||||||
| 10 | "DASA" means the Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse | ||||||
| 11 | within the Department. | ||||||
| 12 | "DMH" means the Division of Mental Health within the | ||||||
| 13 | Department. | ||||||
| 14 | (b) The Department shall develop a plan by July 1, 2011, | ||||||
| 15 | for implementing the following actions. All of the following | ||||||
| 16 | actions shall be implemented by January 1, 2012: | ||||||
| 17 | (1) Adoption by DASA of DMH's practice of licensing an | ||||||
| 18 | agency for outpatient level I and level II.1 services | ||||||
| 19 | rather than licensing each service location. | ||||||
| 20 | (2) Allowance and promotion by DASA of the ability to | ||||||
| 21 | provide all outpatient level I and level II.1 clinical | ||||||
| 22 | services in
the least restrictive community setting | ||||||
| 23 | available rather than at individually licensed facilities. | ||||||
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| 1 | (3) Use of either American Society of Addiction | ||||||
| 2 | Medicine (ASAM) Patient Placement Criteria or the Level of | ||||||
| 3 | Care Utilization System (LOCUS), which is a single | ||||||
| 4 | level-of-care placement tool for both mental health
and | ||||||
| 5 | substance abuse services and was
designed for both | ||||||
| 6 | substance abuse and mental health
services. | ||||||
| 7 | (4) Except in the case of Assertive Community Treatment | ||||||
| 8 | (ACT), elimination of the requirement that all mental | ||||||
| 9 | health clients be re-registered and that the services
they | ||||||
| 10 | receive be re-authorized every 6 months if they have a | ||||||
| 11 | diagnosis of
serious mental illness. | ||||||
| 12 | (5) Posting on a website of a summary of the weekly DMH | ||||||
| 13 | Collaborative phone calls. | ||||||
| 14 | (6) Development by DASA and DMH of uniform staff | ||||||
| 15 | definitions and credential
requirements for the delivery | ||||||
| 16 | and billing of services. | ||||||
| 17 | (7) Elimination of the requirement for client | ||||||
| 18 | signatures on treatment plans, to be replaced by | ||||||
| 19 | documentation in the assessments and treatment plans that | ||||||
| 20 | reflects the
client's participation in setting his or her | ||||||
| 21 | goals. | ||||||
| 22 | (8) For authorized Medicaid services to enrolled | ||||||
| 23 | individuals, DASA and DMH providers shall receive payment | ||||||
| 24 | for all such authorized services, with payment occurring no | ||||||
| 25 | later than in the next fiscal year. | ||||||
| 26 | (9) Use of post-payment audits only to review whether | ||||||
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| 1 | the services billed were
properly documented in the client | ||||||
| 2 | record, with elimination of the practice of using such | ||||||
| 3 | audits to review individual
records to determine whether | ||||||
| 4 | all licensing requirements were met for individual
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| 5 | clients, in recognition that organizations are already | ||||||
| 6 | licensed and this process is redundant and
extremely time | ||||||
| 7 | consuming. | ||||||
| 8 | (10) Maximization by the Department of "deemed" status | ||||||
| 9 | for organizations that are accredited by
the Joint | ||||||
| 10 | Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations or | ||||||
| 11 | the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation | ||||||
| 12 | Facilities and elimination of redundant reviews of the
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| 13 | standards. | ||||||
| 14 | (11) Combination or consolidation of separate | ||||||
| 15 | administrative licensing functions. | ||||||
| 16 | (12) Elimination of the Division of Mental Health | ||||||
| 17 | regional offices to save significant State administrative
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| 18 | costs that shall be used for needed community mental health | ||||||
| 19 | services. | ||||||
| 20 | The plan shall include recommendations for necessary | ||||||
| 21 | legislative action and changes in rules. | ||||||
| 22 | (c) The Department shall file the plan with the Governor | ||||||
| 23 | and the General Assembly by July 1, 2011.
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| 24 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 25 | becoming law.
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