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More money for facilities helping disabled A new law will
increase Medicaid rates for health care facilities that serve people
with developmental disabilities.
Signed Nov. 21,
House Bill 3478 raises the current Medicaid rates by 3 percent
for long-term care facilities licensed by the Department of Public
Health as intermediate care facilities for people with development
disabilities, in addition to long-term care facilities for
designated individuals younger than 22. The new rates will take
effect Jan. 1.
The budget passed by Gov. Blagojevich and his Democratic
colleagues last spring inadvertently excluded these facilities
licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act from the list of
organizations that would receive rate increases and extensions for
fiscal 2006. This new law will correct this oversight.
[From
Sen. Bill Brady] |
