Full Text of SR0564 093rd General Assembly
SR0564 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Director of the Department of Central | 3 |
| Management Services (CMS) is the chief procurement agent of the | 4 |
| State of Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, CMS is responsible for administering the State's | 6 |
| Group Health Insurance coverage; and | 7 |
| WHEREAS, The State provides health insurance benefits to | 8 |
| over 350,000 employees, retirees, and dependents; and | 9 |
| WHEREAS, CMS has the primary responsibility for | 10 |
| negotiating and entering into contractual arrangements to | 11 |
| provide Group Health Insurance benefits for the State's | 12 |
| employees, retirees, and dependents; and | 13 |
| WHEREAS, CMS conducted the bidding process for managed care | 14 |
| organizations to bid on the contracts to provide health | 15 |
| benefits to the State's employees, retirees, and dependents; | 16 |
| and | 17 |
| WHEREAS, CMS has established criteria for this Request for | 18 |
| Proposals (RFP) bidding process and for awarding contracts for | 19 |
| the provision of health benefits to the State's employees, | 20 |
| retirees, and dependents; and | 21 |
| WHEREAS, Recent evidence has shown that CMS failed or | 22 |
| refused to comply with its own process for selecting managed | 23 |
| care organizations to participate in the State's Group Health | 24 |
| Insurance program; and | 25 |
| WHEREAS, Recent evidence shows that managed care | 26 |
| organizations that were ranked higher in the bidding criteria | 27 |
| were not awarded a contract to provide health benefits to the | 28 |
| State's employees, retirees, and dependents while managed care |
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| organizations that were ranked lower were awarded such a | 2 |
| contract; and
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| WHEREAS, CMS recently concluded that the process used in | 4 |
| selecting managed care organizations to provide health | 5 |
| benefits to the State's employees, retirees, and dependents was | 6 |
| inadequate; and | 7 |
| WHEREAS, CMS plans to re-bid these contracts due to the | 8 |
| questions that have arisen about the original bidding process; | 9 |
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| WHEREAS, The General Assembly is concerned that CMS did not | 11 |
| follow its own criteria in the awarding of the original | 12 |
| contracts for providing health benefits to the State's | 13 |
| employees, retirees and dependents; and | 14 |
| WHEREAS, the Attorney General is the Chief Legal Officer of | 15 |
| the State and is charged with investigating alleged violations | 16 |
| of the law; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-THIRD GENERAL | 18 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that the Illinois Senate | 19 |
| requests that the Attorney General conduct a thorough | 20 |
| investigation of the Request for Proposals (RFP) process used | 21 |
| by CMS to select managed care organizations to participate in | 22 |
| the State's Group Health Insurance program; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That the Illinois Senate requests that the | 24 |
| Attorney General proffer an opinion on the validity of the | 25 |
| process used by CMS to select managed care organizations to | 26 |
| participate in the State's Group Health Insurance program; and | 27 |
| be it further | 28 |
| RESOLVED, That the Attorney General is asked to pay | 29 |
| particular attention to the points awarded to each bidder in |
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| CMS's own RFP process and conclude whether the initial | 2 |
| selection of managed care organizations was proper and | 3 |
| adequately adhered to the criteria of CMS's own RFP; and be it | 4 |
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| RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be delivered to | 6 |
| the Attorney General in an expedited manner.
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