Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for SB2367

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Allows the Department of Human Services to initiate a 2-year pilot project aimed at the improvement of delivery of community-based services by contract; for FY05, limits the total amount of expenditures for the contracts issued under the project to $64,000,000 with respect to certain designated services; sets forth requirements for contracts; requires the Department to consult with stakeholders and consumers in designing, developing, and implementing the project; requires the Department to establish an "ombudsman" system in connection with the project; requires an independent evaluation of the project. Requires the Department of Human Services to implement policies and procedures for procuring community services in a manner that will ensure the maximum amount of federal financial participation in the cost of those services; allows the Department to issue and execute contracts that include provisions for payment on a fee-for-service basis after January 1, 2005 under certain terms and conditions; requires the Department to consult with the departments of Public Aid, Public Health, and Children and Family Services and the Department on Aging in adopting rules in relation to fee-for-service contracts, and authorizes the adoption of emergency rules; requires the Department, subject to appropriation, to provide an aggregate amount of funding through a combination of grants and contracts that will at least maintain the same level of services in effect for FY04; requires the Department to review its current rate methodology for community services. Provides that neither the Governor nor the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, nor anyone acting on behalf of either of those, shall direct or require the reserve or impoundment, or otherwise prohibit the expenditure, of moneys appropriated to the Department of Human Services for the purpose of funding services provided through the Department's divisions of Developmental Disabilities, Alcohol and Substance Abuse, and Mental Health, provided that any such expenditure is made pursuant to the Department's powers and duties as provided by law. Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act; provides for a Community Developmental Disability Services Medicaid Trust Fund, to be used to pay for Medicaid reimbursed community developmental disability services; repeals provisions concerning the Community Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Services Provider Participation Fee Trust Fund. Amends the State Prompt Payment Act; provides that as used in the Act, "payment" means a payment of a vendor's bill or invoice or a payment of a grant award, whether in whole or in part; provides for priority of processing and payment of bills and grant awards to not-for-profit providers of non-residential mental health or developmental disability services. Amends the Community Services Act; provides that the Department of Human Services must bill the Department of Public Aid separately for services provided to Medicaid recipients through the Division of Mental Health and for services provided to such recipients through the Division of Developmental Disabilities. Effective immediately.

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