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90_HB1639
305 ILCS 5/5-5.6b from Ch. 23, par. 5-5.6b
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois
Public Aid Code. Makes stylistic changes in provisions
prohibiting double payment to skilled nursing or intermediate
care facilities under this Article for residents of those
facilities.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Public Aid Code by changing
2 Section 5-5.6b.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
6 changing Section 5-5.6b as follows:
7 (305 ILCS 5/5-5.6b) (from Ch. 23, par. 5-5.6b)
8 Sec. 5-5.6b. Prohibition against double payment. If any
9 resident of a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care
10 facility is admitted to the such facility on the basis that
11 the charges for the such resident's care will be paid from
12 private funds, and the source of payment for the such care
13 thereafter changes from private funds to payments under this
14 Article, the facility shall, upon receiving the first such
15 payment under this Article, notify the Illinois Department of
16 the such source of private funds for the such recipient and
17 repay to the source of private funds any amounts received
18 from the such source as payment for care for which payment
19 also was made under this Article. Private funds shall not
20 include third party resources such as insurance or Medicare
21 benefits or payments made by responsible relatives.
22 (Source: P.A. 85-824.)