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Medicaid/HFS Notices

General Information

• Governor Releases Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Budget (3/12/10 - password required)
• Update: Support Medicaid Initiative for Critical Access Hospitals (3/3/10)
  • IHA Urges Governor to Support Critical Access Hospitals (2/11/10)
• Editorial Urges Caution on Illinois Medicaid Cuts (2/15/10)
• Reimbursement for Services Rendered at Hospital Owned Off Site Clinics (2/9/10)
• Advocacy Alert: Urge Your U.S. Senators to Include FMAP Extension in Jobs Bill (2/3/10)
• IHA Letter on Medicaid to Gubernatorial Candidates (1/25/10)
• Illinois Health Connect Referral System Video Available for Hospital Use (Jan. 2010)
• Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services' Winter 2010 Outreach Tour Dates
• HSI Notice: Use Updated List of Codes Subject to Utilization Review (12/14/09)
• HSI Notice: HSI Office Closed on December 24 & 25 (12/11/09)
• Governor Signs Legislation for New Medicaid Stimulus Funds (11/20/09)
• Legislature Approves New Medicaid Stimulus Funds for Hospitals (10/30/09)
• Press Release: Lawmakers Seek $1 Billion Health Care Economic Stimulus Plan (10/29/09)
• Urge Legislators to Oppose Reducing Interest Penalty on Late Payments (10/14/09)
• IHA Letter to Governor on FMAP (10/2/09)
• Special Webinars for Hospitals on Illinois Health Connect (9/11/09)
• HSI Notice: Web Review Reminders (Sept. 2009)
• Dangers of Auto Assignment for Medicaid (7/24/09 - password required)
• IHA Campaign to Protect Medicaid (6/10/09 - password required)
• Urge Governor and Legislature to Protect Medicaid: IHA Position Papers (6/11/09)
  • Mandatory Increased Capitated Managed Care Will Jeopardize Billions in Federal Medicaid Funds (6/22/09)
  • IHA White Paper on Medicaid (6/15/09)
  • IHA Letter to House Republican Leader Tom Cross (6/15/09)
  • IHA Letter to Chicago Tribune re: HMO Medicaid Managed Care (6/9/09)
  • Hospitals are Major Contributors to the Illinois Medicaid Program
  • IHA Responds to Taxpayer Action Board Report (6/4/09)
  • Taxpayer Action Board Report (6/4/09) (Medicaid recommendations are on pages 27-45; minority reports objecting to many of the Board's recommendations are on pages 109-126; list of allies on the Medicaid issue is on page 120)
  • IHA Testimony to Governor's Taxpayer Action Board Medicaid Subcommittee (5/8/09)
  • IHA Statement to the Governor's Taxpayer Action Board
  • IHA Medicaid Testimony to Key House Committee (4/23/09)
  • IHA Response to Senate Republican Recommendations on Medicaid (4/3/09)
  • IHA Testimony to IL House Committee on Medicaid Reform (3/26/09)

HFS Notices/Summaries

Notices:

• Dept. of Healthcare and Family Services has added language regarding the "Medicare Approved Amount" to Chapter 300, Handbook for Electronic Processing, Topic 302 (3/2/10)
• Illinois Dept. of Healthcare and Family Services' New Practitioner Fee Schedule effective Feb. 1, 2010
• Expensive Drugs and Devices Listing eligible for additional payment consideration termed an "outlier payment" provided in conjunction with a procedure from the Ambulatory Procedures Listing effective 1/1/10
• Illinois Health Connect Urgent Care Referral Policy for Phase I (1/28/10)
• HFS Expansion of Telehealth Services (1/15/10)
• Hospital Credit Balances: Notice to ensure hospital providers are monitoring credit balances and submitting adjustments or payments to HFS related to these credit balances (12/18/09)
• Changes to Safety Training Certification Programs (12/9/09)
• Attachment C Utilization Review Changes (11/30/09)
• HFS Phasing Out Paper Notifications (11/18/09)
• Practitioner Fee Schedule Key: Effective Oct.1, 2009 (Note: large document - may take time to download)
• Reimbursement for the H1N1 Vaccination (10/1/09)
• Revisions to DME Questionnaires and Prior Approval Form (9/11/09)
• Illinois Health Connect Referral System Implementation and Direct Access Service Billing Requirements (9/4/09)
• Payment Error Rate Measure (PERM) Audit (8/26/09)
• Cost Outlier Payment Calculation: Change to Children's Hospital Eligibility (8/18/09)
• Prior Approval for Atypical Antipsychotics and ADHD Medications for Young Children (8/3/09)
• Illinois Health Connect Referral System Implementation - Phase I (8/3/09)
• Practitioner Fee Schedule - Effective July 1, 2009
• Elimination of the One-Digit Payee Code for Institutional Claim Submittals (6/24/09)
• HFS has Awarded HealthSystems of Illinois a One-Year Contract Extension as Illinois' Quality Improvement Organization (May 2009)
• Changes in Vaccines for Children Plus Coverage for 19 and 20 Year Old (5/19/09)
• Update to the Expensive Drugs and Devices (EDD) Listing for January 1, 2009
• Practitioner Fee Schedule - Effective April 1, 2009
• Chapter 100, Appendix E, Error Code Explanations - The Illinois Dept. of Healthcare and Family Services has updated Chapter 100, Appendix E, Error Code Explanations.
• Health Information Exchange (HIE) Planning Grants (3/17/09)

Provider Release Summaries:

• November and December 2009
• August, September, October 2009
• April, May, June 2009
• February and March 2009