Full Text of HB4020 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning public aid.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 5-30 as follows: | 6 | | (305 ILCS 5/5-30) | 7 | | Sec. 5-30. Care coordination. | 8 | | (a) At least 50% of recipients eligible for comprehensive | 9 | | medical benefits in all medical assistance programs or other | 10 | | health benefit programs administered by the Department, | 11 | | including the Children's Health Insurance Program Act and the | 12 | | Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Act, shall be enrolled in a | 13 | | care coordination program by no later than January 1, 2015. For | 14 | | purposes of this Section, "coordinated care" or "care | 15 | | coordination" means delivery systems where recipients will | 16 | | receive their care from providers who participate under | 17 | | contract in integrated delivery systems that are responsible | 18 | | for providing or arranging the majority of care, including | 19 | | primary care physician services, referrals from primary care | 20 | | physicians, diagnostic and treatment services, behavioral | 21 | | health services, in-patient and outpatient hospital services, | 22 | | dental services, and rehabilitation and long-term care | 23 | | services. The Department shall designate or contract for such |
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| 1 | | integrated delivery systems (i) to ensure enrollees have a | 2 | | choice of systems and of primary care providers within such | 3 | | systems; (ii) to ensure that enrollees receive quality care in | 4 | | a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner; and (iii) | 5 | | to ensure that coordinated care programs meet the diverse needs | 6 | | of enrollees with developmental, mental health, physical, and | 7 | | age-related disabilities. | 8 | | (b) Payment for such coordinated care shall be based on | 9 | | arrangements where the State pays for performance related to | 10 | | health care outcomes, the use of evidence-based practices, the | 11 | | use of primary care delivered through comprehensive medical | 12 | | homes, the use of electronic medical records, and the | 13 | | appropriate exchange of health information electronically made | 14 | | either on a capitated basis in which a fixed monthly premium | 15 | | per recipient is paid and full financial risk is assumed for | 16 | | the delivery of services, or through other risk-based payment | 17 | | arrangements. | 18 | | (c) To qualify for compliance with this Section, the 50% | 19 | | goal shall be achieved by enrolling medical assistance | 20 | | enrollees from each medical assistance enrollment category, | 21 | | including parents, children, seniors, and people with | 22 | | disabilities to the extent that current State Medicaid payment | 23 | | laws would not limit federal matching funds for recipients in | 24 | | care coordination programs. In addition, services must be more | 25 | | comprehensively defined and more risk shall be assumed than in | 26 | | the Department's primary care case management program as of the |
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| 1 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | 2 | | Assembly. | 3 | | (d) The Department shall report to the General Assembly in | 4 | | a separate part of its annual medical assistance program | 5 | | report, beginning April, 2012 until April, 2016, on the | 6 | | progress and implementation of the care coordination program | 7 | | initiatives established by the provisions of this amendatory | 8 | | Act of the 96th General Assembly. The Department shall include | 9 | | in its April 2011 report a full analysis of federal laws or | 10 | | regulations regarding upper payment limitations to providers | 11 | | and the necessary revisions or adjustments in rate | 12 | | methodologies and payments to providers under this Code that | 13 | | would be necessary to implement coordinated care with full | 14 | | financial risk by a party other than the Department.
| 15 | | (e) Integrated Care Program for individuals with chronic | 16 | | mental health conditions. | 17 | | (1) The Integrated Care Program shall encompass | 18 | | services administered to recipients of medical assistance | 19 | | under this Article to prevent exacerbations and | 20 | | complications using cost-effective, evidence-based | 21 | | practice guidelines and mental health management | 22 | | strategies. | 23 | | (2) The Department may utilize and expand upon existing | 24 | | contractual arrangements with integrated care plans under | 25 | | the Integrated Care Program for providing the coordinated | 26 | | care provisions of this Section. |
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| 1 | | (3) Payment for such coordinated care shall be based on | 2 | | arrangements where the State pays for performance related | 3 | | to mental health outcomes on a capitated basis in which a | 4 | | fixed monthly premium per recipient is paid and full | 5 | | financial risk is assumed for the delivery of services, or | 6 | | through other risk-based payment arrangements such as | 7 | | provider-based care coordination. | 8 | | (4) The Department shall examine whether chronic | 9 | | mental health management programs and services for | 10 | | recipients with specific chronic mental health conditions | 11 | | do any or all of the following: | 12 | | (A) Improve the patient's overall mental health in | 13 | | a more expeditious and cost-effective manner. | 14 | | (B) Lower costs in other aspects of the medical | 15 | | assistance program, such as hospital admissions, | 16 | | emergency room visits, or more frequent and | 17 | | inappropriate psychotropic drug use. | 18 | | (5) The Department shall work with the facilities and | 19 | | any integrated care plan participating in the program to | 20 | | identify and correct barriers to the successful | 21 | | implementation of this subsection (e) prior to and during | 22 | | the implementation to best facilitate the goals and | 23 | | objectives of this subsection (e). | 24 | | (f) A hospital that is located in a county of the State in | 25 | | which the Department mandates some or all of the beneficiaries | 26 | | of the Medical Assistance Program residing in the county to |
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| 1 | | enroll in a Care Coordination Program, as set forth in Section | 2 | | 5-30 of this Code, shall not be eligible for any non-claims | 3 | | based payments not mandated by Article V-A of this Code for | 4 | | which it would otherwise be qualified to receive, unless the | 5 | | hospital is a Coordinated Care Participating Hospital no later | 6 | | than 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of | 7 | | the 97th General Assembly or 60 days after the first mandatory | 8 | | enrollment of a beneficiary in a Coordinated Care program. For | 9 | | purposes of this subsection, "Coordinated Care Participating | 10 | | Hospital" means a hospital that meets one of the following | 11 | | criteria: | 12 | | (1) The hospital has entered into a contract to provide | 13 | | hospital services to enrollees of the care coordination | 14 | | program. | 15 | | (2) The hospital has not been offered a contract by a | 16 | | care coordination plan that pays at least as much as the | 17 | | Department would pay, on a fee-for-service basis, not | 18 | | including disproportionate share hospital adjustment | 19 | | payments or any other supplemental adjustment or add-on | 20 | | payment to the base fee-for-service rate. | 21 | | (g) No later than August 1, 2013, the Department shall | 22 | | issue a purchase of care solicitation for Accountable Care | 23 | | Entities (ACE) to serve any children and parents or caretaker | 24 | | relatives of children eligible for medical assistance under | 25 | | this Article. An ACE may be a single corporate structure or a | 26 | | network of providers organized through contractual |
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| 1 | | relationships with a single corporate entity. The solicitation | 2 | | shall require that: | 3 | | (1) An ACE operating in Cook County be capable of | 4 | | serving at least 40,000 eligible individuals in that | 5 | | county; an ACE operating in Lake, Kane, DuPage, or Will | 6 | | Counties be capable of serving at least 20,000 eligible | 7 | | individuals in those counties and an ACE operating in other | 8 | | regions of the State be capable of serving at least 10,000 | 9 | | eligible individuals in the region in which it operates. | 10 | | During initial periods of mandatory enrollment, the | 11 | | Department shall require its enrollment services | 12 | | contractor to use a default assignment algorithm that | 13 | | ensures if possible an ACE reaches the minimum enrollment | 14 | | levels set forth in this paragraph. | 15 | | (2) An ACE must include at a minimum the following | 16 | | types of providers: primary care, specialty care, | 17 | | hospitals, and behavioral healthcare. | 18 | | (3) An ACE shall have a governance structure that | 19 | | includes the major components of the health care delivery | 20 | | system, including one representative from each of the | 21 | | groups listed in paragraph (2). | 22 | | (4) An ACE must be an integrated delivery system, | 23 | | including a network able to provide the full range of | 24 | | services needed by Medicaid beneficiaries and system | 25 | | capacity to securely pass clinical information across | 26 | | participating entities and to aggregate and analyze that |
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| 1 | | data in order to coordinate care. | 2 | | (5) An ACE must be capable of providing both care | 3 | | coordination and complex case management, as necessary, to | 4 | | beneficiaries. To be responsive to the solicitation, a | 5 | | potential ACE must outline its care coordination and | 6 | | complex case management model and plan to reduce the cost | 7 | | of care. | 8 | | (6) In the first 18 months of operation, unless the ACE | 9 | | selects a shorter period, an ACE shall be paid care | 10 | | coordination fees on a per member per month basis that are | 11 | | projected to be cost neutral to the State during the term | 12 | | of their payment and, subject to federal approval, be | 13 | | eligible to share in additional savings generated by their | 14 | | care coordination. | 15 | | (7) In months 19 through 36 of operation, unless the | 16 | | ACE selects a shorter period, an ACE shall be paid on a | 17 | | pre-paid capitation basis for all medical assistance | 18 | | covered services, under contract terms similar to Managed | 19 | | Care Organizations (MCO), with the Department sharing the | 20 | | risk through either stop-loss insurance for extremely high | 21 | | cost individuals or corridors of shared risk based on the | 22 | | overall cost of the total enrollment in the ACE. The ACE | 23 | | shall be responsible for claims processing, encounter data | 24 | | submission, utilization control, and quality assurance. | 25 | | (8) In the fourth and subsequent years of operation, an | 26 | | ACE shall convert to a Managed Care Community Network |
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| 1 | | (MCCN), as defined in this Article, or Health Maintenance | 2 | | Organization pursuant to the Illinois Insurance Code, | 3 | | accepting full-risk capitation payments. | 4 | | The Department shall allow potential ACE entities 5 months | 5 | | from the date of the posting of the solicitation to submit | 6 | | proposals. After the solicitation is released, in addition to | 7 | | the MCO rate development data available on the Department's | 8 | | website, subject to federal and State confidentiality and | 9 | | privacy laws and regulations, the Department shall provide 2 | 10 | | years of de-identified summary service data on the targeted | 11 | | population, split between children and adults, showing the | 12 | | historical type and volume of services received and the cost of | 13 | | those services to those potential bidders that sign a data use | 14 | | agreement. The Department may add up to 2 non-state government | 15 | | employees with expertise in creating integrated delivery | 16 | | systems to its review team for the purchase of care | 17 | | solicitation described in this subsection. Any such | 18 | | individuals must sign a no-conflict disclosure and | 19 | | confidentiality agreement and agree to act in accordance with | 20 | | all applicable State laws. | 21 | | During the first 2 years of an ACE's operation, the | 22 | | Department shall provide claims data to the ACE on its | 23 | | enrollees on a periodic basis no less frequently than monthly. | 24 | | Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to limit the | 25 | | Department's mandate to enroll 50% of its beneficiaries into | 26 | | care coordination systems by January 1, 2015, using all |
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| 1 | | available care coordination delivery systems, including Care | 2 | | Coordination Entities (CCE), MCCNs, or MCOs, nor be construed | 3 | | to affect the current CCEs, MCCNs, and MCOs selected to serve | 4 | | seniors and persons with disabilities prior to that date. | 5 | | (h) Department contracts with MCOs and other entities | 6 | | reimbursed by risk based capitation shall have a minimum | 7 | | medical loss ratio of 85%, shall require the MCO or other | 8 | | entity to pay claims within 30 days of receiving a bill that | 9 | | contains all the essential information needed to adjudicate the | 10 | | bill, and shall require the entity to pay a penalty that is at | 11 | | least equal to the penalty imposed under the Illinois Insurance | 12 | | Code for any claims not paid within this time period. The | 13 | | requirements of this subsection shall apply to contracts with | 14 | | MCOs entered into or renewed or extended after June 1, 2013. | 15 | | (i) Managed Care Entities (MCEs), including MCOs and all | 16 | | other care coordination organizations, serving individuals | 17 | | enrolled in the medical assistance program under this Article V | 18 | | shall develop and maintain a written Language Access Policy | 19 | | that sets forth standards, guidelines, and an operational plan | 20 | | to ensure language-appropriate services and that is consistent | 21 | | with the standard of meaningful access for Limited English | 22 | | Proficiency (LEP) populations. The Language Access Policy | 23 | | shall describe how the MCEs will provide the following required | 24 | | services: | 25 | | (1) Translation (the written replacement of text from | 26 | | one language into another) of all vital documents and |
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| 1 | | forms, as identified by the Department. | 2 | | (2) Qualified Interpreter Services (the oral | 3 | | communication of a message from one language into another | 4 | | by a qualified interpreter). | 5 | | (3) Staff Training on the Language Access Policy, | 6 | | including how to identify language needs, how to access and | 7 | | provide language assistance services, how to work with | 8 | | interpreters, how to request translations, and how to track | 9 | | the use of language assistance services. | 10 | | (4) Data Tracking that identifies the language need. | 11 | | (5) Notification to participants stating that language | 12 | | access services are available and describing how to obtain | 13 | | them. | 14 | | (Source: P.A. 97-689, eff. 6-14-12; 98-104, eff. 7-22-13.)
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