Rep. David R. Leitch
Filed: 3/16/2005
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2892





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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2892 by replacing 
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the title with the following: 
 
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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,"; and
 
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by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the 
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following:
 
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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.
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    (c) The task force shall submit a report to the Governor 
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and the General Assembly no later than December 31, 2005.
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    (d) This Section is repealed on January 1, 2006.
 
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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.".