Full Text of HR0033 96th General Assembly
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION 33
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| WHEREAS, The Department of Healthcare and Family Services | 3 |
| ("Department") administers the medical assistance ("Medicaid") | 4 |
| program under the Illinois Public Aid Code; and
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| WHEREAS, The Medicaid program provides coverage of nursing | 6 |
| home and other healthcare expenses for low-income persons; and
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| WHEREAS, Under the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Department | 8 |
| has the authority, in certain circumstances, to file claims | 9 |
| against the estates of deceased Medicaid recipients for amounts | 10 |
| expended on a recipient's behalf under the Medicaid program; | 11 |
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| WHEREAS, If the deceased recipient was a nursing home | 13 |
| resident for a substantial period of time or receiving medical | 14 |
| services for a substantial period of time, a claim may amount | 15 |
| to many thousands of dollars, which can be quite a shock to the | 16 |
| recipient's heirs, executor, and/or administrator; and | 17 |
| WHEREAS, Because of the passage of time, there may be no | 18 |
| way to verify the correctness of some items comprising the | 19 |
| claim and the Medicaid recipient, executor, or administrator | 20 |
| may have legitimate concerns about his or her liability for | 21 |
| approving such items; and
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| WHEREAS, The aforementioned circumstances and procedures | 2 |
| can create the possibility of error or misuse or abuse of the | 3 |
| system; therefore, be it | 4 |
| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 5 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 6 |
| the Department of Healthcare and Family Services examine the | 7 |
| methods by which a recipient, or his or her designee, while | 8 |
| still living, can be provided with timely notice of each item | 9 |
| of goods or services provided to the recipient under the | 10 |
| medical assistance program, including in the notice at least | 11 |
| the following: (i) a description of the item; (ii) the date the | 12 |
| item was provided; (iii) the name and address of the vendor | 13 |
| providing the item; and (iv) the cost of the item; and be it | 14 |
| further
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| RESOLVED, That the Department of Healthcare and Family | 16 |
| Services report its findings and recommendations to the House | 17 |
| of Representatives; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be delivered to | 19 |
| the Governor and the Director of Healthcare and Family | 20 |
| Services.
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