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| AN ACT concerning public aid.
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| WHEREAS, The General Assembly has long viewed one-stop |
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| service in the human services as a vital goal in order to serve |
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| clients in the most effective and most cost-efficient fashion; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, The vision of one-stop service was a fundamental |
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| reason for creating the Department of Human Services; and
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| WHEREAS, One-stop service became possible in 1999 when a |
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| new data warehouse became operational at the Department of |
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| Public Aid; and
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| WHEREAS, The data warehouse has enabled the Department of |
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| Public Aid for the first time to optimally manage the $10 |
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| billion Medicaid budget program, enabled the Inspector General |
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| to identify hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent |
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| claims, and given members of the General Assembly and the |
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| Department ready access to information for policy |
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| decision-making not possible without the data warehouse; and
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| WHEREAS, Computer World Smithsonian designated the |
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| Illinois data warehouse as the best Medicaid Management System |
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| in the United States of America; and
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| WHEREAS, Illinois expanded its data warehouse in 2003 to |
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| accomplish additional cost and functional efficiencies; and
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| WHEREAS, The data warehouse is an indispensable |
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| administrative tool necessary to comply with increasingly |
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| complex Medicaid regulations, specifically new Medicaid |
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| prescription drug benefit rules, and necessary to position |
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| Illinois to continue benefiting from increasingly more |
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| difficult-to-attain federal funding opportunities available |
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| only to states that enjoy access to prompt, accurate |
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| information from a data warehouse; therefore,
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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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| changing Section 12-4.201 and adding Section 12-4.202 as |
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| follows:
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| (305 ILCS 5/12-4.201)
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| Sec. 12-4.201. |
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| (a) Data warehouse concerning medical and related
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| services. The Illinois Department of Public Aid may purchase |
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| services and
materials associated with the costs of developing |
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| and implementing a data
warehouse comprised of management and |
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| decision making information in
regard to the liability |
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| associated with, and utilization of, medical and
related |
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| services, out of moneys available for that purpose. |
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| (b) The Department of Public Aid shall perform all |
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| necessary administrative functions to expand its |
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| linearly-scalable data warehouse to encompass other healthcare |
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| data sources at both the Department of Human Services and the |
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| Department of Public Health. The Department of Public Aid shall |
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| leverage the inherent capabilities of the data warehouse to |
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| accomplish this expansion with marginal additional technical |
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| administration. The purpose of
this expansion is to allow for |
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| programmatic review and analysis including the |
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| interrelatedness among the various healthcare programs in |
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| order to ascertain effectiveness toward, and ultimate impact |
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| on, clients. Beginning
July 1, 2005, the Department of Public |
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| Aid shall supply quarterly reports to the Commission on |
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| Government Forecasting and Accountability detailing progress |
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| toward this mandate.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-9, eff. 7-1-97.)
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| (305 ILCS 5/12-4.202 new) |
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| Sec. 12-4.202. Data Warehouse Inter-Agency Coordination of |
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| Client Care Task Force. |
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| (a) The Data Warehouse Inter-Agency Coordination of Client |
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| Care Task Force is created. The task force shall consist of the |
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| following: |
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| (1) Eight voting members, appointed 2 each by the |
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| President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, |
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| the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the |
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| Minority Leader of the House of Representatives. |
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| (2) Five ex officio, nonvoting members as follows: the |
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| Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, |
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| or his or her designee; the Director of Public Aid, or his |
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| or her designee; the Director of Public Health, or his or |
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| her designee; the Secretary of Human Services, or his or |
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| her designee; and the Director of Children and Family |
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| Services, or his or her designee. |
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| The voting members of the task force shall elect from their |
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| number 2 co-chairs of the task force. |
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| Members of the task force shall serve without compensation |
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| and are not entitled to reimbursement for their expenses |
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| incurred in performing their duties. |
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| Five affirmative votes are required for the task force to |
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| take action. |
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| (b) The task force shall gather information and make |
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| recommendations relating to the following: |
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| (1) The most effective flow of information between |
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| agencies that serve the same clients through one-stop |
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| shopping across State government. |
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| (2) The creation of an overarching system to respond to |
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| requests by the General Assembly, the Office of the |
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| Governor, and the general public. |
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| (3) The most effective use of State moneys in |
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| leveraging the current system to accommodate the |
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| ever-growing information base in State government. |