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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, Physicians and other providers of health care
3 services are essential participants in the State's Medicaid
4 program, which is administered by the Department of Healthcare
5 and Family Services; they provide necessary health care
6 services to low-income individuals and families throughout the
7 State; and
 
8     WHEREAS, One of the results of the State's fiscal crisis of
9 the past several years has been the State's failure to make
10 timely payments to physicians and other providers of health
11 care services for the services they have provided to Medicaid
12 recipients; and
 
13     WHEREAS, The chronic lateness of the State's payments to
14 providers under the Medicaid program has caused many of those
15 providers to discontinue providing necessary health care
16 services to Medicaid recipients; and
 
17     WHEREAS, Medicaid recipients do not have private health
18 insurance that will cover the cost of health care services that
19 they need, nor do they have sufficient income to be able to pay
20 for such services themselves; and
 
21     WHEREAS, As long as the State's failure to make timely
22 payments to physicians and other providers of health care
23 services under the Medicaid program continues, Medicaid
24 recipients will be at risk of losing their access to necessary
25 health care services; and
 
26     WHEREAS, The good health of the residents of this State,
27 and those residents' access to health care services, should be
28 a priority of State government; therefore, be it
 
29     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE

 

 

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1 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
2 we urge the State to ensure that payments to Medicaid providers
3 are made on time so that physicians and other providers of
4 health care services do not refuse to see patients who are
5 Medicaid recipients; and be it further
 
6     RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution be delivered to
7 the Governor and the Director of Healthcare and Family
8 Services.