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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 HB6604
Introduced 02/09/04, by Dan Reitz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that under the Medicaid program, a nursing home may place up to 50% of its beds on layaway; sets forth requirements for placing beds on layaway. Provides for adjustment of a nursing home's Medicaid payment rate based on the nursing home's layaway or delicensure of beds.
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LRB093 15229 DRJ 47301 b |
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| AN ACT concerning public aid.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by |
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| adding Section 5-5.8c as follows: |
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| (305 ILCS 5/5-5.8c new) |
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| Sec. 5-5.8c. Nursing homes; bed layaway. |
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| (a) Upon prior written notice to the Department of Public |
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| Aid and in accordance with rules adopted by the Department, a |
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| nursing facility may place up to 50% of the facility's beds on |
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| layaway. A nursing facility may not
discharge a resident in |
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| order to lay away a bed. Notice to the
Department must be given |
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| 60 days prior to the effective date
of the layaway. Beds on |
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| layaway shall have the same status as
voluntarily delicensed |
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| and decertified beds. In
addition, beds on layaway may be |
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| removed from layaway at any
time on or after one year after the |
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| effective date of layaway in
the facility of origin, with a |
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| 60-day notice to the
Department. A nursing facility that |
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| removes beds from layaway
may not place beds on layaway status |
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| for one year after the
effective date of the removal from |
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| layaway. The Department
may approve the immediate removal of |
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| beds from layaway if
necessary to provide access to those |
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| nursing home beds to
residents relocated from other nursing |
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| homes due to emergency
situations or closure. If approval is |
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| granted, the
one-year restriction on placing beds on layaway |
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| after a removal
of beds from layaway shall not apply. Beds may |
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| remain on
layaway for up to 5 years. |
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| (b) For rate
years beginning on or after July 1, 2005, a |
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| nursing facility
reimbursed under this Article that has placed |
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| beds on layaway
shall have those beds given the same effect as |
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| if the beds
had been delicensed, so long as the beds remain on |
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| layaway. At
the time of a layaway, a facility may change its |