Date	Chamber	Action
1/10/2017	House	Session Sine Die

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance

305 ILCS 5/5-5f

Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Removes provisions requiring the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to: (i) establish benchmarks for hospitals to measure and align payments to reduce potentially preventable hospital readmissions, inpatient complications, and unnecessary emergency room visits; (ii) consider items, including, but not limited to, historic and current acuity of care and historic and current trends in readmission; (iii) publish provider-specific historical readmission data and anticipated potentially preventable targets 60 days prior to the start of the program; and (iv) in the instance of readmissions, adopt policies and rates of reimbursement for services and other payments provided under the Code to ensure that, by June 30, 2013, expenditures to hospitals are reduced by, at a minimum, $40,000,000. Effective immediately.

Actions 

Date	Chamber	Action
2/19/2015	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Cynthia Soto
2/19/2015	House	First Reading
2/19/2015	House	Referred to Rules Committee
3/2/2015	House	Assigned to Appropriations-Human Services Committee
3/27/2015	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
3/23/2016	House	Assigned to Appropriations-Human Services Committee
4/8/2016	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
1/10/2017	House	Session Sine Die

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