99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 SB1253

Introduced 2/17/2015, by Sen. Iris Y. Martinez

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

305 ILCS 5/5-30

Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning care coordination, provides that Managed Care Entities (MCEs), including MCOs and all other care coordination organizations, shall develop and maintain a written language access policy that sets forth the standards, guidelines, and operational plan to ensure language appropriate services and that is consistent with the standard of meaningful access for populations with limited English proficiency. Provides that the language access policy shall describe how the MCEs will provide all of the following required services: (1) translation (the written replacement of text from one language into another) of all vital documents and forms as identified by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services; (2) qualified interpreter services (the oral communication of a message from one language into another by a qualified interpreter); (3) staff training on the language access policy, including how to identify language needs, access and provide language assistance services, work with interpreters, request translations, and track the use of language assistance services; (4) data tracking that identifies the language need; and (5) notification to participants on the availability of

language access services and on how to access such services.

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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning public aid.

2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,

3 represented in the General Assembly:

4 Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by

5 changing Section 5-30 as follows:

6 (305 ILCS 5/5-30)

7 Sec. 5-30. Care coordination.

8 (a) At least 50% of recipients eligible for comprehensive

9 medical benefits in all medical assistance programs or other

10 health benefit programs administered by the Department,

11 including the Children's Health Insurance Program Act and the

12 Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Act, shall be enrolled in a

13 care coordination program by no later than January 1, 2015. For

14 purposes of this Section, "coordinated care" or "care

15 coordination" means delivery systems where recipients will

16 receive their care from providers who participate under

17 contract in integrated delivery systems that are responsible

18 for providing or arranging the majority of care, including

19 primary care physician services, referrals from primary care

20 physicians, diagnostic and treatment services, behavioral

21 health services, in-patient and outpatient hospital services,

22 dental services, and rehabilitation and long-term care

23 services. The Department shall designate or contract for such

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1 integrated delivery systems (i) to ensure enrollees have a

2 choice of systems and of primary care providers within such

3 systems; (ii) to ensure that enrollees receive quality care in

4 a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner; and (iii)

5 to ensure that coordinated care programs meet the diverse needs

6 of enrollees with developmental, mental health, physical, and

7 age-related disabilities.

8 (b) Payment for such coordinated care shall be based on

9 arrangements where the State pays for performance related to

10 health care outcomes, the use of evidence-based practices, the

11 use of primary care delivered through comprehensive medical

12 homes, the use of electronic medical records, and the

13 appropriate exchange of health information electronically made

14 either on a capitated basis in which a fixed monthly premium

15 per recipient is paid and full financial risk is assumed for

16 the delivery of services, or through other risk-based payment

17 arrangements.

18 (c) To qualify for compliance with this Section, the 50%

19 goal shall be achieved by enrolling medical assistance

20 enrollees from each medical assistance enrollment category,

21 including parents, children, seniors, and people with

22 disabilities to the extent that current State Medicaid payment

23 laws would not limit federal matching funds for recipients in

24 care coordination programs. In addition, services must be more

25 comprehensively defined and more risk shall be assumed than in

26 the Department's primary care case management program as of the

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1 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General

2 Assembly.

3 (d) The Department shall report to the General Assembly in

4 a separate part of its annual medical assistance program

5 report, beginning April, 2012 until April, 2016, on the

6 progress and implementation of the care coordination program

7 initiatives established by the provisions of this amendatory

8 Act of the 96th General Assembly. The Department shall include

9 in its April 2011 report a full analysis of federal laws or

10 regulations regarding upper payment limitations to providers

11 and the necessary revisions or adjustments in rate

12 methodologies and payments to providers under this Code that

13 would be necessary to implement coordinated care with full

14 financial risk by a party other than the Department.

15 (e) Integrated Care Program for individuals with chronic

16 mental health conditions.

17 (1) The Integrated Care Program shall encompass

18 services administered to recipients of medical assistance

19 under this Article to prevent exacerbations and

20 complications using cost-effective, evidence-based

21 practice guidelines and mental health management

22 strategies.

23 (2) The Department may utilize and expand upon existing

24 contractual arrangements with integrated care plans under

25 the Integrated Care Program for providing the coordinated

26 care provisions of this Section.

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1 (3) Payment for such coordinated care shall be based on

2 arrangements where the State pays for performance related

3 to mental health outcomes on a capitated basis in which a

4 fixed monthly premium per recipient is paid and full

5 financial risk is assumed for the delivery of services, or

6 through other risk-based payment arrangements such as

7 provider-based care coordination.

8 (4) The Department shall examine whether chronic

9 mental health management programs and services for

10 recipients with specific chronic mental health conditions

11 do any or all of the following:

12 (A) Improve the patient's overall mental health in

13 a more expeditious and cost-effective manner.

14 (B) Lower costs in other aspects of the medical

15 assistance program, such as hospital admissions,

16 emergency room visits, or more frequent and

17 inappropriate psychotropic drug use.

18 (5) The Department shall work with the facilities and

19 any integrated care plan participating in the program to

20 identify and correct barriers to the successful

21 implementation of this subsection (e) prior to and during

22 the implementation to best facilitate the goals and

23 objectives of this subsection (e).

24 (f) A hospital that is located in a county of the State in

25 which the Department mandates some or all of the beneficiaries

26 of the Medical Assistance Program residing in the county to

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1 enroll in a Care Coordination Program, as set forth in Section

2 5-30 of this Code, shall not be eligible for any non-claims

3 based payments not mandated by Article V-A of this Code for

4 which it would otherwise be qualified to receive, unless the

5 hospital is a Coordinated Care Participating Hospital no later

6 than 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of

7 the 97th General Assembly or 60 days after the first mandatory

8 enrollment of a beneficiary in a Coordinated Care program. For

9 purposes of this subsection, "Coordinated Care Participating

10 Hospital" means a hospital that meets one of the following

11 criteria:

12 (1) The hospital has entered into a contract to provide

13 hospital services with one or more MCOs to enrollees of the

14 care coordination program.

15 (2) The hospital has not been offered a contract by a

16 care coordination plan that the Department has determined

17 to be a good faith offer and that pays at least as much as

18 the Department would pay, on a fee-for-service basis, not

19 including disproportionate share hospital adjustment

20 payments or any other supplemental adjustment or add-on

21 payment to the base fee-for-service rate, except to the

22 extent such adjustments or add-on payments are

23 incorporated into the development of the applicable MCO

24 capitated rates.

25 As used in this subsection (f), "MCO" means any entity

26 which contracts with the Department to provide services where

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1 payment for medical services is made on a capitated basis.

2 (g) No later than August 1, 2013, the Department shall

3 issue a purchase of care solicitation for Accountable Care

4 Entities (ACE) to serve any children and parents or caretaker

5 relatives of children eligible for medical assistance under

6 this Article. An ACE may be a single corporate structure or a

7 network of providers organized through contractual

8 relationships with a single corporate entity. The solicitation

9 shall require that:

10 (1) An ACE operating in Cook County be capable of

11 serving at least 40,000 eligible individuals in that

12 county; an ACE operating in Lake, Kane, DuPage, or Will

13 Counties be capable of serving at least 20,000 eligible

14 individuals in those counties and an ACE operating in other

15 regions of the State be capable of serving at least 10,000

16 eligible individuals in the region in which it operates.

17 During initial periods of mandatory enrollment, the

18 Department shall require its enrollment services

19 contractor to use a default assignment algorithm that

20 ensures if possible an ACE reaches the minimum enrollment

21 levels set forth in this paragraph.

22 (2) An ACE must include at a minimum the following

23 types of providers: primary care, specialty care,

24 hospitals, and behavioral healthcare.

25 (3) An ACE shall have a governance structure that

26 includes the major components of the health care delivery

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1 system, including one representative from each of the

2 groups listed in paragraph (2).

3 (4) An ACE must be an integrated delivery system,

4 including a network able to provide the full range of

5 services needed by Medicaid beneficiaries and system

6 capacity to securely pass clinical information across

7 participating entities and to aggregate and analyze that

8 data in order to coordinate care.

9 (5) An ACE must be capable of providing both care

10 coordination and complex case management, as necessary, to

11 beneficiaries. To be responsive to the solicitation, a

12 potential ACE must outline its care coordination and

13 complex case management model and plan to reduce the cost

14 of care.

15 (6) In the first 18 months of operation, unless the ACE

16 selects a shorter period, an ACE shall be paid care

17 coordination fees on a per member per month basis that are

18 projected to be cost neutral to the State during the term

19 of their payment and, subject to federal approval, be

20 eligible to share in additional savings generated by their

21 care coordination.

22 (7) In months 19 through 36 of operation, unless the

23 ACE selects a shorter period, an ACE shall be paid on a

24 pre-paid capitation basis for all medical assistance

25 covered services, under contract terms similar to Managed

26 Care Organizations (MCO), with the Department sharing the

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1 risk through either stop-loss insurance for extremely high

2 cost individuals or corridors of shared risk based on the

3 overall cost of the total enrollment in the ACE. The ACE

4 shall be responsible for claims processing, encounter data

5 submission, utilization control, and quality assurance.

6 (8) In the fourth and subsequent years of operation, an

7 ACE shall convert to a Managed Care Community Network

8 (MCCN), as defined in this Article, or Health Maintenance

9 Organization pursuant to the Illinois Insurance Code,

10 accepting full-risk capitation payments.

11 The Department shall allow potential ACE entities 5 months

12 from the date of the posting of the solicitation to submit

13 proposals. After the solicitation is released, in addition to

14 the MCO rate development data available on the Department's

15 website, subject to federal and State confidentiality and

16 privacy laws and regulations, the Department shall provide 2

17 years of de-identified summary service data on the targeted

18 population, split between children and adults, showing the

19 historical type and volume of services received and the cost of

20 those services to those potential bidders that sign a data use

21 agreement. The Department may add up to 2 non-state government

22 employees with expertise in creating integrated delivery

23 systems to its review team for the purchase of care

24 solicitation described in this subsection. Any such

25 individuals must sign a no-conflict disclosure and

26 confidentiality agreement and agree to act in accordance with

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1 all applicable State laws.

2 During the first 2 years of an ACE's operation, the

3 Department shall provide claims data to the ACE on its

4 enrollees on a periodic basis no less frequently than monthly.

5 Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to limit the

6 Department's mandate to enroll 50% of its beneficiaries into

7 care coordination systems by January 1, 2015, using all

8 available care coordination delivery systems, including Care

9 Coordination Entities (CCE), MCCNs, or MCOs, nor be construed

10 to affect the current CCEs, MCCNs, and MCOs selected to serve

11 seniors and persons with disabilities prior to that date.

12 Nothing in this subsection precludes the Department from

13 considering future proposals for new ACEs or expansion of

14 existing ACEs at the discretion of the Department.

15 (h) Department contracts with MCOs and other entities

16 reimbursed by risk based capitation shall have a minimum

17 medical loss ratio of 85%, shall require the entity to

18 establish an appeals and grievances process for consumers and

19 providers, and shall require the entity to provide a quality

20 assurance and utilization review program. Entities contracted

21 with the Department to coordinate healthcare regardless of risk

22 shall be measured utilizing the same quality metrics. The

23 quality metrics may be population specific. Any contracted

24 entity serving at least 5,000 seniors or people with

25 disabilities or 15,000 individuals in other populations

26 covered by the Medical Assistance Program that has been

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1 receiving full-risk capitation for a year shall be accredited

2 by a national accreditation organization authorized by the

3 Department within 2 years after the date it is eligible to

4 become accredited. The requirements of this subsection shall

5 apply to contracts with MCOs entered into or renewed or

6 extended after June 1, 2013.

7 (h-5) The Department shall monitor and enforce compliance

8 by MCOs with agreements they have entered into with providers

9 on issues that include, but are not limited to, timeliness of

10 payment, payment rates, and processes for obtaining prior

11 approval. The Department may impose sanctions on MCOs for

12 violating provisions of those agreements that include, but are

13 not limited to, financial penalties, suspension of enrollment

14 of new enrollees, and termination of the MCO's contract with

15 the Department. As used in this subsection (h-5), "MCO" has the

16 meaning ascribed to that term in Section 5-30.1 of this Code.

17 (i) Managed Care Entities (MCEs), including MCOs and all

18 other care coordination organizations, shall develop and

19 maintain a written language access policy that sets forth the

20 standards, guidelines, and operational plan to ensure language

21 appropriate services and that is consistent with the standard

22 of meaningful access for populations with limited English

23 proficiency. The language access policy shall describe how the

24 MCEs will provide all of the following required services:

25 (1) Translation (the written replacement of text from

26 one language into another) of all vital documents and forms

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