Illinois Senate Bill 1773 Department Of Healthcare & Family Services Hospital Payments

The legislation was signed on March 21, 2018. It updates the state’s Medicaid funding model known as the Hospital Assessment Program. The program requires hospitals to pay a tax to the state that is then matched by the federal government; it raises about $3.5 billion annually. The legislation updates the dataset the state uses to reimburse hospitals for Medicaid services; some data was from 2005. The new model will use updated data, and ensure that more reimbursements are based on actual services hospitals provide. On June 21, 2018, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner announced that the Centers for Medicare . . .