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One Week Away from the Quarterly Meeting
We are pleased to announce that lead House Republican budget negotiator and Medicaid working group member Representative Tom Demmer will join our next quarterly meeting on May 6. HFS Director Theresa Eagleson is already confirmed. In addition to being the point-person on a host of healthcare-related topics for the House Republicans, he also is the minority spokesman on House Appropriations: Human Services and the Prescription Drug Affordability committees - two committees that have seen their fair share of anti-business pieces of legislation this year.
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Healthcare Council Quarterly Meeting
Monday, May 6
2 pm
The Memorial Center for Learning
228 W. Miller St.
MCLI 2A Curtis Theatre
Springfield, IL 62702
Healthcare Committees Scheduled for the Week
Below are all the healthcare-related bills scheduled for committee this week. A few notes on bills not currently assigned to the new chamber's committees of jurisdiction:
- HB471, which is Rep. Morgan's health insurance rate review bill, has yet to get out of assignments. The Chamber is opposed.
- The two ethylene oxide bills from Sen. Curran are still in House Rules (SB1852 and SB1854). There have ben several meetings on the legislation over break involving the governor's office, legislators and IEPA, but a new amendment is still forthcoming.
- Sen. Castro's SB1909 (post-partum insurance mandate) is still in Rules. The Chamber continues to be opposed in large part due to the new appeal process instituted in the bill for determinations of medical necessity.
House Insurance Committee
Apr 30, 2019
2:00PM
Location:
Room 118 Capitol Building
SB111 - Willis - Requires dental anesthetics coverage for individuals with autism up to the age of 26 (previously 19). Chamber is neutral.
SB174 - Conroy - Creates the In-Office Membership Care Act and applies it only to dental care. In provisions concerning the effect of the Act, provides that the Act does not prohibit dental care providers who are not dental care providers offering in-office membership care agreements from entering into agreements with patients (rather than the Act does not prohibit dental care providers who are not dental care providers from entering into agreements with patients). Effective immediately.
Senate Licenses Activities
Apr 30, 2019
2:00PM
Location:
400 Capitol
HB2613 - Curran - Amends the Professional Service Corporation Act. Includes within the scope of the term "related professions" and "related professional services" the practice of speech-language therapy by persons licensed under the Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Practice Act. Effective immediately.
HB2676 - Bertino Tarrant - Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Changes the definition of "public health dental hygienist."
HB2811 - Weaver - Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Extends the repeal date of the Orthotics, Prosthetics, and Pedorthics Practice Act from January 1, 2020 to January 1, 2030.
HB3468 - Link - reasonable efforts to turn on TV close-captioning in public areas of a hospital.
Senate Insurance Committee
Apr 30, 2019
4:00PM
Location:
212 Capitol
HB122 - Fine - Creates the Office of the Ombudsman for Behavioral Health Access to Care (Office) within the Department of Human Services for the purpose of assisting residents of Illinois in accessing behavioral health care.
HB156 - Mulroe - Creates the Prescription Drug Pricing Transparency Act. Chamber is opposed.
HB1639 - Mulroe - Excludes supplemental insurance policies from general health insurance coverage mandates. Chamber supports.
HB2160 - Morrison - Requires the Department of Insurance to develop a uniform electronic prior authorization form to be used by an insurer that provides prescription drug benefits when requiring prior authorization.
HB2174 - Fine - Provides that every health insurance carrier that provides coverage for prescription drugs shall ensure that no fewer than 25% of certain individual and group plans offered shall apply a pre-deductible, flat-dollar copayment structure to the entire drug benefit. Chamber is opposed.
HB2846 - Fine - In provisions concerning treatment for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome, provides that treatment administered or prescribed after July 18, 2017 shall be covered. Provides that for billing and diagnosis purposes, pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome shall be coded as autoimmune encephalitis until a code is assigned. Chamber is opposed.
HB2847 - Morrison - Prevents the increase of premiums or denial of coverage for living organ donors, among other changes.
HB3113 - Cassidy - No copays for dermatology screenings. The Chamber went neutral after an amendment in the House - the Illinois Medical Society has proposed additional language that we currently are reviewing.
HB3320 - Ellman - Amends the Third Party Administrators Article of the Illinois Insurance Code. Excludes a dental service plan regulated by the Code from the definition of "administrator".
HB3435 - Morrison - Epi Pen insurance mandate. Chamber is neutral.
Senate
Special Committee on Oversight of Medicaid Managed Care
Apr 30, 2019
5:00PM
Location:
212 Capitol
House Human Services Committee
May 01, 2019
8:30AM
Location:
Room C-1 Stratton Building
SB109 - Didech - Provides that a facility that houses dementia residents may allow electronic monitoring devices only in rooms that are located in a building that is entirely dedicated to dementia care or that are located in a building that is solely dedicated to dementia care.
SB1258 - Hurley - Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Provides that covered vehicle service provider personnel who treat and either release or transport to a health care facility an individual experiencing a suspected or an actual opioid overdose shall document in the patient's care report the date and time of the overdose, the location in latitude and longitude where the overdose victim was initially encountered, whether one or more doses of an opioid overdose reversal drug was administered, and whether the overdose was fatal or nonfatal when the overdose victim was initially encountered and during the transportation of the victim to a health care facility.
SB1319 - Mah - Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Defines "greatest social need" for the purpose of a specified rule. Makes a conforming change. Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Prohibits unlawful discrimination by an owner, licensee, administrator, employee, or agent of an assisted living establishment of residents in assisted living establishments.
SB1506 - McAuliffe - reates the Dense Breast Tissue Act. Provides that the Act's provisions apply to a facility that provides mammography services in Illinois. Provides that if a patient's mammogram demonstrates dense breast tissue, the provider of mammography services shall provide notification to the patient in the summary of the mammography report sent to the patient that shall include specified information.
SB1573 - Hoffman - Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes technical changes to specify in provisions concerning provisional eligibility for long-term care services that: (i) the Department of Healthcare and Family Services must maintain the applicant's provisional Medicaid enrollment status until a final eligibility determination is approved or the applicant's appeal has been adjudicated and eligibility is denied; (ii) the Department of Healthcare and Family Services or the managed care organization, if applicable, must reimburse providers for services rendered during an applicant's provisional eligibility period; (iii) the Department of Healthcare and Family Services must submit payment vouchers for all retroactive reimbursement due to the Office of the Comptroller within 10 business days of issuing provisional eligibility to an applicant; and (iv) the Department of Healthcare and Family Services must adopt rules.
SB1889 - Mussman - Amends the Task Force on Human Services Contracting Act. Modifies the appointment of members to the Task Force on State Contracting with Private Nonprofit Human Service Providers.
SB2026 - Mason - Prohibits the State from applying for any federal waiver that would reduce or eliminate any protection or coverage required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that was in effect on January 1, 2017, including, but not limited to, any protection for persons with pre-existing conditions and coverage for services identified as essential health benefits under the ACA.
SB2087 - Mussman - Creates the Customized Employment for Individuals with Disabilities Act.
Health Care Licenses Committee
May 01, 2019
10:00AM
Location:
Room 122B Capitol Building
SB167 - McCombie - Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Defines "teledentistry". Makes changes concerning the requirements that must be met by a dental assistant before the dental assistant may replace, carve, and finish amalgam restorations, place, pack, and finish composite restorations, and place interim restorations.
SB1133 - Mah - Amends the Acupuncture Practice Act. Provides that no person licensed under the Act may hold himself or herself out as being trained in Chinese herbology without proof of having a specified status or successful completion of a specified examination, with a violation constituting a ground for disciplinary action. Makes conforming changes.
SB1135 - Feigenholtz - Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Permits hospitals that admit patients for treatment of mental illness to grant medical staff privileges to licensed prescribing psychologists.
SB1214 - Villa - Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall develop and make available training materials that ensure that all phlebotomists are trained in the most current methods of drawing blood from children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
SB1291 - Demmer - Amends the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act. Provides that a dentist may be privileged at an ambulatory surgical treatment center if it is determined that the patient under the care of the dentist requires sedation beyond the training that the dentist possesses.
SB1715 - Feigenholtz - Provides that the "practice of pharmacy" includes the administration of injections of long-term antipsychotic medications
SB1841 - Unes - Amends the Massage Licensing Act. Provides that the exemption from the Act for practitioners of Asian bodywork approaches applies until January 1, 2020. Effective immediately.
SB1965 - Slaughter - Amends the Health Care Worker Background Check Act. Provides that an individual otherwise qualified for and intending to apply for a direct care position who has a disqualifying conviction may initiate a fingerprint-based criminal history record check where a conditional offer of employment has not been made and such a background check has not been previously conducted, and allows those individuals to request a waiver of the prohibition of employment.
Senate Public Health
May 1
2:00 pm
Location: 400 Capitol
HB1 - Collins - Creates the Task Force on Infant and Maternal Mortality Among African Americans Act.
HB2 - Collins - Amends the Medical Patient Rights Act. Provides that every woman has certain rights with regard to pregnancy and childbirth, including the right to receive care that is consistent with current scientific evidence about benefits and risks, the right to choose her birth setting, the right to be provided with certain information, and the right to be treated with respect at all times before, during, and after pregnancy by her health care professionals and to have a health care professional that is culturally competent and treats her appropriately regardless of her ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious background.
HB5 - Collins - Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to ensure access to substance use and mental health services statewide for pregnant and postpartum women, and to ensure that programs are gender-responsive, are trauma-informed, serve women and young children, and prioritize justice-involved pregnant and postpartum women.
HB163 - Munoz - Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that the information required to be transmitted under the prescription monitoring program must be transmitted not later than the end of the business day on which a controlled substance is dispensed, or at such other time as may be required by the Department of Human Services by administrative rule (rather than, at the end of the next business day on which the controlled substance is dispensed).
HB823 - Cullerton - Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall develop and make available training materials that ensure that all phlebotomists are trained in the most current methods of drawing blood from children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
HB1915 - Koehler - Amends the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986. Deletes provisions authorizing the ownership and operation of a medical practice as part of a comprehensive hemophilia diagnostic treatment center, as authorized under Section 501(a)(2) of the Social Security Act, as a purpose of a not-for-profit corporation. Authorizes a not-for-profit corporation to own and operate a hemophilia program, including comprehensive hemophilia diagnostic treatment centers, under Section 501(a)(2) of the Social Security Act and employ physicians, other health care professionals and staff.
HB2060 - Sandoval - Amends the Food Handling Regulation Enforcement Act. Incorporates food allergen awareness training in the requirements to receive food service sanitation manager certification rather than requiring a separate certification.
HB2146 - Koehler - Creates the Health in All Policies Act. Provides that the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, in consultation with the Department of Public Health, shall convene a workgroup to review legislation and make new policy recommendations relating to the health of residents of the State.
HB3038 - Morrison - Amends the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health may approve a sexual assault transfer plan for the provision of medical forensic services until January 1, 2022 if: (1) a treatment hospital with approved pediatric transfer has agreed, as part of an areawide treatment plan, to accept sexual assault survivors 13 years of age or older from the proposed transfer hospital, if the treatment hospital with approved pediatric transfer is geographically closer to the transfer hospital than a treatment hospital or another treatment hospital with approved pediatric transfer and such transfer is not unduly burdensome on the sexual assault survivor; and (2) a treatment hospital has agreed, as a part of an areawide treatment plan, to accept sexual assault survivors under 13 years of age from the proposed transfer hospital and transfer to the treatment hospital would not unduly burden the sexual assault survivor.
HB3061 - Sims - Provides that workforce intermediaries and organizations providing pro bono legal services may initiate a fingerprint-based criminal history record check if a conditional offer of employment has not been made and a background check has not been previously conducted for an individual who has a disqualifying conviction and is receiving services from a workforce, intermediary or an organization providing pro bono legal services.
HB3247 - Belt - Creates the Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act. Provides that the Director of Public Health shall establish a Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Program subject to appropriation.
HB3531 - Cullerton - Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that if a hospital has a gestational surrogacy contract on file for a gestational surrogate or has otherwise received the gestational surrogacy contract from a gestational surrogate, the hospital may not deny an intended parent entry into the delivery room where the gestational surrogate is being induced or in labor.
HB3554 - Gillespie - Amends the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Systems Act. Provides that at the time of applying for or renewing his or her license, an applicant for a license or license renewal under the Act may submit an email address to the Department of Public Health. Provides that the Department shall keep the email address on file as a form of contact for the individual. Provides that, within 60 days before the expiration of the license, the Department shall send license renewal notices electronically and by mail to all licensees who provide the Department with his or her email address.
Senate Human Services
May 01, 2019
3:30PM
Location:
409 Capitol
HB344 - Bennett - Creates the Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Community-Integrated Living Arrangements and Developmental Disability Facilities Act. Provides that under certain conditions, a resident of a living arrangement certified under the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act and a resident of a developmental disability facility shall be permitted to use an audio and video surveillance system in his or her room at his or her own expense.
HB907 - Murphy - Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to create and maintain an online database and resource page on its website. Provides that the online database and resource page shall also be geared toward school social workers and school support personnel.
HB2118 - Collins - Amends the Survivor Support and Trafficking Prevention Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the provisions of the Article are inoperative on and after June 30, 2022 (rather than June 30, 2019). Effective immediately.
HB2142 - Morrison - Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that until the consent of the adult's guardian has been obtained, counseling or psychotherapy provided to an adult under guardianship shall be limited to not more than 12 (rather than 5) sessions, a session lasting not more than 60 (rather than 45) minutes. Effective immediately.
HB2259 - Morrison - Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to develop, no later than January 1, 2020, a standardized format for all Medicaid managed care organization preferred drug lists in collaboration with Medicaid managed care organizations and other stakeholders, including, but not limited to, organizations that serve individuals impacted by HIV/AIDS or epilepsy, and community-based organizations, providers, and entities with expertise in drug formulary development.
HB2304 - Martinez - Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Youth Training and Education in the Building Trades Program to award grants to community-based organizations for the purpose of establishing training programs for youth with an interest in the building trades.
HB2459 - Anderson - Amends the Out-of-State Person Subject to Involuntary Admission on an Inpatient Basis Mental Health Treatment Act. Extends the repeal date of the Act from January 1, 2020 to January 1, 2025. Effective immediately.
HB2487 - Murphy - Amends the Task Force on Human Services Contracting Act. Modifies the appointment of members to the Task Force on State Contracting with Private Nonprofit Human Service Providers.
HB2659 - Mulroe - Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes technical changes to specify in provisions concerning provisional eligibility for long-term care services that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall adopt rules. Effective immediately.
HB3039 - Tracy - Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that, if a recipient resides at a long-term care facility, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall send the notice of its decision to terminate to the recipient and the long-term care facility.
HB3040 - Tracy - Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that if an individual has transferred to another long-term care facility, any annual notice concerning redetermination of eligibility must be sent to the long-term care facility where the individual resides as well as to the individual.
HB3069 - Plummer - Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Requires facilities licensed under the Act to notify the Department of Human Services when emergency calls are made from the facility. Grants the Department rulemaking power to implement the notification procedures.
HB3097 - Fine - Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to develop in collaboration with an academic institution a program designed to provide prescribing physicians under the medical assistance program with an evidence-based, non-commercial source of the latest objective information about pharmaceuticals.
HB3299 - Harmon - Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that a person admitted to a developmental disability facility and receiving habilitation shall have access to sex education, related resources, and treatment planning that supports his or her right to sexual health and healthy sexual practices and to be free from sexual exploitation and abuse.
HB3483 - Fine - Replaces everything after the enacting clause with provisions similar to the introduced bill, but with the following changes: Provides that individuals who are receiving services under any home and community-based services waiver program authorized under the Social Security Act may remain on the Prioritization of Urgency of Need for Services (PUNS) database until they are offered services through a PUNS selection or demonstrate the need for and are awarded alternative services.
House Mental Health Committee
May 02, 2019 8:00AM
Location:
Room 114 Capitol Building
SB1165 - Gabel - Amends the Behavioral Health Workforce Education Center Task Force Act. Provides that the Behavioral Health Education Center Task Force must recognize that the behavioral health workforce is comprised of a broad range of professions providing prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services for mental health conditions and substance use disorders.
House
Health Care Availability & Accessibility Committee
May 03, 2019 10:00AM
Location:
C-600, 6th Floor Michael A. Bilandic Building
Chicago, IL
C-600, 6th Floor Michael A. Bilandic Building - Chicago, IL
SUBJECT MATTER: Progress on Sickle Cell Education and Treatment.
JCAR Update
There have been no new proposed healthcare-related rules since our last update.
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