Full Text of SR0355 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, In 2012, the General Assembly passed the Save | 3 | | Medicaid Access and Resources Together (SMART) Act (Public Act | 4 | | 97-689), an initiative to save approximately $1.6 billion in | 5 | | State Medicaid spending through the enactment of spending | 6 | | reductions, utilization controls, and provider rate cuts; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, The SMART Act required the Department of | 8 | | Healthcare and Family Services to file a report with the | 9 | | Auditor General, the Governor, and leaders of the General | 10 | | Assembly that listed any necessary amendments to the Illinois | 11 | | Title XIX State plan, federal waiver request, or State | 12 | | administrative rules necessary to implement the SMART Act; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, At a press conference announcing her appointment | 14 | | as Director of Healthcare and Family Services, Julie Hamos | 15 | | stated that "my approach... will be to bring all of you to the | 16 | | table... those of you who are interested in health care will | 17 | | have a place at this table. We need to hear the disparate | 18 | | voices... and we need to build a strong coalition statewide."; | 19 | | and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Since that time, Director Hamos has repeatedly | 21 | | denied interested parties access to her in order to share their | 22 | | concerns and ideas regarding the implementation of the SMART |
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| 1 | | Act and its effects on the State's Medicaid program; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Department of Healthcare and Family Services | 3 | | was created to provide necessary services to those who are most | 4 | | in need in the State of Illinois; Director Hamos has promised | 5 | | the people of Illinois that she would do everything in her | 6 | | power to ensure that these people would receive the services | 7 | | they deserve; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Director Hamos' consistent lack of openness in | 9 | | these proceedings and her unwillingness to take forward steps | 10 | | in serving the neediest people of this State represents a grave | 11 | | dereliction of her duties; therefore, be it
| 12 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL | 13 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we call upon the | 14 | | Governor to instruct the Department of Healthcare and Family | 15 | | Services to ensure any movement of Medicaid lives to HMOs does | 16 | | not result in a reduction of federal revenues garnered through | 17 | | the Hospital Assessment program and to ensure that any | 18 | | reimbursement system associated with HMOs must not be | 19 | | implemented prior to receiving written federal approval; and be | 20 | | it further
| 21 | | RESOLVED, That we call upon the Governor to instruct the | 22 | | Department of Healthcare and Family Services to establish a |
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| 1 | | medical loss ratio of no less than 88% for all mandatorily | 2 | | enrolled MCO programs, consistent with practices established | 3 | | under the Integrated Care Pilot Program; and be it further | 4 | | RESOLVED, That we call upon the Governor to instruct the | 5 | | Department to develop and implement a potentially preventable | 6 | | readmissions policy consistent with Section 15-5 of the Public | 7 | | Aid Code (305 ILCS 5/15-5); and be it further | 8 | | RESOLVED, That we call upon the Governor to instruct the | 9 | | Department to move immediately to garner federal approval for | 10 | | the Hospital Assessment Program, prescribed in the SMART Act; | 11 | | and be it further | 12 | | RESOLVED, That we call upon the Governor to include | 13 | | reimbursement policies that, in total, provide for a positive | 14 | | operating margin for safety-net hospitals, as part of the Rate | 15 | | Reform development process; and be it further | 16 | | RESOLVED, That we call upon the Governor to immediately pay | 17 | | all supplemental hospital payments that have been approved by | 18 | | the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; and be it further | 19 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 20 | | delivered to the Governor and the Director of Healthcare and | 21 | | Family Services.
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