(305 ILCS 5/5A-10) (from Ch. 23, par. 5A-10)
Sec. 5A-10. Applicability.
(a) The assessment imposed by subsection (a) of Section 5A-2 shall cease to be imposed and the Department's obligation to make payments shall immediately cease, and any moneys remaining in the Fund shall be refunded to hospital providers in proportion to the amounts paid by them, if:
(1) The payments to hospitals required under this
Article are not eligible for federal matching funds under Title XIX or XXI of the Social Security Act;
(2) For State fiscal years 2009 through 2018, the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services adopts any administrative rule change to reduce payment rates or alters any payment methodology that reduces any payment rates made to operating hospitals under the approved Title XIX or Title XXI State plan in effect January 1, 2008 except for:
(A) any changes for hospitals described in
subsection (b) of Section 5A-3;
(B) any rates for payments made under this
Article V-A;
(C) any changes proposed in State plan amendment
transmittal numbers 08-01, 08-02, 08-04, 08-06, and 08-07;
(D) in relation to any admissions on or after
January 1, 2011, a modification in the methodology for calculating outlier payments to hospitals for exceptionally costly stays, for hospitals reimbursed under the diagnosis-related grouping methodology in effect on July 1, 2011; provided that the Department shall be limited to one such modification during the 36-month period after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly;
(E) any changes affecting hospitals authorized by
Public Act 97-689; or
(F) any changes authorized by Section 14-12 of
this Code, or for any changes authorized under Section 5A-15 of this Code.
(b) The assessment imposed by Section 5A-2 shall not take effect or shall cease to be imposed, and the Department's obligation to make payments shall immediately cease, if the assessment is determined to be an impermissible tax under Title XIX of the Social Security Act. Moneys in the Hospital Provider Fund derived from assessments imposed prior thereto shall be disbursed in accordance with Section 5A-8 to the extent federal financial participation is not reduced due to the impermissibility of the assessments, and any remaining moneys shall be refunded to hospital providers in proportion to the amounts paid by them.
(c) The assessments imposed by subsection (b-5) of Section 5A-2 shall not take effect or shall cease to be imposed, the Department's obligation to make payments shall immediately cease, and any moneys remaining in the Fund shall be refunded to hospital providers in proportion to the amounts paid by them, if the payments to hospitals required under Section 5A-12.4 are not eligible for federal matching funds under Title XIX of the Social Security Act.
(d) The assessments imposed by Section 5A-2 shall not take effect or shall cease to be imposed, the Department's obligation to make payments shall immediately cease, and any moneys remaining in the Fund shall be refunded to hospital providers in proportion to the amounts paid by them, if:
(1) for State fiscal years 2013 through 2018, the
Department reduces any payment rates to hospitals as in effect on May 1, 2012, or alters any payment methodology as in effect on May 1, 2012, that has the effect of reducing payment rates to hospitals, except for any changes affecting hospitals authorized in Public Act 97-689 and any changes authorized by Section 14-12 of this Code, and except for any changes authorized under Section 5A-15;
(2) for State fiscal years 2013 through 2018, the
Department reduces any supplemental payments made to hospitals below the amounts paid for services provided in State fiscal year 2011 as implemented by administrative rules adopted and in effect on or prior to June 30, 2011, except for any changes affecting hospitals authorized in Public Act 97-689 and any changes authorized by Section 14-12 of this Code, and except for any changes authorized under Section 5A-15; or
(3) for State fiscal years 2015 through 2018, the
Department reduces the overall effective rate of reimbursement to hospitals below the level authorized under Section 14-12 of this Code, except for any changes under Section 14-12 or Section 5A-15 of this Code.
(Source: P.A. 97-72, eff. 7-1-11; 97-74, eff. 6-30-11; 97-688, eff. 6-14-12; 97-689, eff. 6-14-12; 98-463, eff. 8-16-13; 98-651, eff. 6-16-14.)
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