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Public Act 094-0267
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| HB2892 Enrolled |
LRB094 08624 DRJ 38832 b |
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AN ACT concerning public aid.
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WHEREAS, The General Assembly has long viewed one-stop |
service in the human services as a vital goal in order to serve |
clients in the most effective and most cost-efficient fashion; |
and
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WHEREAS, The vision of one-stop service was a fundamental |
reason for creating the Department of Human Services; and
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WHEREAS, One-stop service became possible in 1999 when a |
new data warehouse became operational at the Department of |
Public Aid; and
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WHEREAS, The data warehouse has enabled the Department of |
Public Aid for the first time to optimally manage the $10 |
billion Medicaid budget program, enabled the Inspector General |
to identify hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent |
claims, and given members of the General Assembly and the |
Department ready access to information for policy |
decision-making not possible without the data warehouse; and
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WHEREAS, Computer World Smithsonian designated the |
Illinois data warehouse as the best Medicaid Management System |
in the United States of America; and
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WHEREAS, Illinois expanded its data warehouse in 2003 to |
accomplish additional cost and functional efficiencies; and
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WHEREAS, The data warehouse is an indispensable |
administrative tool necessary to comply with increasingly |
complex Medicaid regulations, specifically new Medicaid |
prescription drug benefit rules, and necessary to position |
Illinois to continue benefiting from increasingly more |
difficult-to-attain federal funding opportunities available |
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only to states that enjoy access to prompt, accurate |
information from a data warehouse; therefore,
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by |
changing Section 12-4.201 and adding Section 12-4.202 as |
follows:
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(305 ILCS 5/12-4.201)
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Sec. 12-4.201. |
(a) Data warehouse concerning medical and related
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services. The Illinois Department of Public Aid may purchase |
services and
materials associated with the costs of developing |
and implementing a data
warehouse comprised of management and |
decision making information in
regard to the liability |
associated with, and utilization of, medical and
related |
services, out of moneys available for that purpose. |
(b) The Department of Public Aid shall perform all |
necessary administrative functions to expand its |
linearly-scalable data warehouse to encompass other healthcare |
data sources at both the Department of Human Services and the |
Department of Public Health. The Department of Public Aid shall |
leverage the inherent capabilities of the data warehouse to |
accomplish this expansion with marginal additional technical |
administration. The purpose of
this expansion is to allow for |
programmatic review and analysis including the |
interrelatedness among the various healthcare programs in |
order to ascertain effectiveness toward, and ultimate impact |
on, clients. Beginning
July 1, 2005, the Department of Public |
Aid shall supply quarterly reports to the Commission on |
Government Forecasting and Accountability detailing progress |
toward this mandate.
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(Source: P.A. 90-9, eff. 7-1-97.)
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(305 ILCS 5/12-4.202 new) |
Sec. 12-4.202. Data Warehouse Inter-Agency Coordination of |
Client Care Task Force. |
(a) The Data Warehouse Inter-Agency Coordination of Client |
Care Task Force is created. The task force shall consist of the |
following: |
(1) Eight voting members, appointed 2 each by the |
President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, |
the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the |
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives. |
(2) Five ex officio, nonvoting members as follows: the |
Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, |
or his or her designee; the Director of Public Aid, or his |
or her designee; the Director of Public Health, or his or |
her designee; the Secretary of Human Services, or his or |
her designee; and the Director of Children and Family |
Services, or his or her designee. |
The voting members of the task force shall elect from their |
number 2 co-chairs of the task force. |
Members of the task force shall serve without compensation |
and are not entitled to reimbursement for their expenses |
incurred in performing their duties. |
Five affirmative votes are required for the task force to |
take action. |
(b) The task force shall gather information and make |
recommendations relating to the following: |
(1) The most effective flow of information between |
agencies that serve the same clients through one-stop |
shopping across State government. |
(2) The creation of an overarching system to respond to |
requests by the General Assembly, the Office of the |
Governor, and the general public. |
(3) The most effective use of State moneys in |
leveraging the current system to accommodate the |
ever-growing information base in State government. |