(305 ILCS 5/12-10.7a)
Sec. 12-10.7a. The Money Follows the Person Budget Transfer Fund is hereby created as a special fund in the State treasury.
(a) Notwithstanding any State law to the contrary, the following moneys shall be deposited into the Fund:
(1) enhanced federal financial participation funds
related to any spending under a Money Follows the Person demonstration project as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on May 14, 2007, and as codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq., regardless of whether such spending occurred from the Money Follows the Person Budget Transfer Fund;
(2) federal financial participation funds related to
any spending under a Money Follows the Person demonstration project as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on May 14, 2007, and as codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq., that occurred from the Money Follows the Person Budget Transfer Fund;
(3) deposits made via the voucher-warrant process
from institutional long-term care appropriations to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services and institutional developmentally disabled long-term care appropriations to the Department of Human Services;
(4) deposits made via the voucher-warrant process
from appropriation lines used to fund community-based services for individuals eligible for nursing facility level of care to the Department of Human Services, the Department on Aging, or the Department of Healthcare and Family Services;
(5) interest earned on moneys in the Fund; and
(6) all other moneys received by the Fund from any
source.
(b) Subject to appropriation, moneys in the Fund may be used by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services for reimbursement or payment for:
(1) expenses related to rebalancing long-term care
services between institutional and community-based settings as authorized under a Money Follows the Person demonstration project as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on May 14, 2007, and as codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq.;
(2) expenses for community-based services for
individuals eligible for nursing facility level of care in the Department of Human Services, the Department on Aging, or the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to the extent the expenses reimbursed or paid are in excess of the amounts budgeted to those Departments each fiscal year for persons transitioning out of institutional long-term care settings under a Money Follows the Person demonstration project as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on May 14, 2007, and as codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq.;
(3) expenses for institutional long-term care
services at the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to the extent that the expenses reimbursed or paid are for services in excess of the amount budgeted to the Department each fiscal year for persons who had or otherwise were expected to transition out of institutional long-term care settings under a Money Follows the Person demonstration project as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on May 14, 2007, and as codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq.; and
(4) expenses, including operational, administrative,
and refund expenses, necessary to implement and operate a Money Follows the Person demonstration project as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on May 14, 2007, and as codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq.
Expenses reimbursed or paid on behalf of other agencies by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services under this subsection shall be pursuant to an interagency agreement and allowable under a Money Follows the Person demonstration project as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on May 14, 2007, and as codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq.
(Source: P.A. 95-744, eff. 7-18-08.)
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