(305 ILCS 60/20)
Sec. 20. Federal waiver or State Plan amendment. The Department shall submit the necessary application to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a waiver or State Plan amendment to implement the pilot program described in this Act. If the application is in the form of a State Plan amendment, the State Plan amendment shall be filed prior to December 31, 2010. If the Department does not submit a State Plan amendment prior to December 31, 2010, the pilot program shall be created utilizing a waiver authority. The waiver request shall be included in any appropriate waiver application renewal submitted prior to December 31, 2011, or shall be submitted as an independent 1915(c) Home and Community Based Medicaid Waiver within that same time period. After federal approval is secured, the Department shall implement the waiver or State Plan amendment within 12 months of the date of approval. By federal requirement, the application for a 1915 (c) Medicaid waiver program must demonstrate cost neutrality per the formula laid out by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Department shall not draft any rules in contravention of this timetable for pilot program development and implementation. This pilot program shall be implemented only to the extent that federal financial participation is available.
(Source: P.A. 96-1078, eff. 7-16-10.)
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