Omar Aquino D

Amends the Medicare-Medicaid Alignment Initiative (MMAI) Nursing Home Residents' Managed Care Rights Law of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Article applies to a fully integrated dual eligible special needs plan and any managed care plan for persons who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Adds to the definition of "Demonstration Project", a fully integrated dual eligible …

Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Removes the requirement for an interpreter who assists a consumer in conducting a transaction or negotiation to sign a required form. Removes the requirement that a separate form be used if the consumer selects the retailer or an employee of the retailer as the consumer's interpreter. Makes conforming changes.

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that a State agency may exercise administrative actions that are specifically provided for in a contract that has been entered into in accordance with the Code without prior procurement compliance monitor review. Removes language providing that each State purchasing officer owes a fiduciary duty to the State.

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Sets forth provisions concerning minimum reimbursement rates that a health insurance company must provide for a physician providing health care services in the specified counties. Prohibits a physician from waiving minimum reimbursement protections as a condition of participation in a health benefit plan or for any other reason. Grants the Department of Insurance rulemaking authority …

Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision concerning applications for the expansion of supportive living dementia care settings, removes language permitting the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to approve such applications only if the application has no more than one non-dementia care unit for each dementia care unit.

Amends the Illinois TRUST Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Fair Patient Billing Act. Makes changes to findings and defined terms provisions. Provides that a hospital shall not deny any protection or benefit of the Act on the basis of a patient's citizenship or immigration status or assets or prospective assets. Provides that a patient who inquires about a denial of financial assistance in whole or in part …

Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that no person shall sell, attempt to sell, or offer to sell to a consumer in the State a non-externally vented natural gas appliance that is manufactured on or after January 1, 2027 unless a label on the gas appliance bears a specified warning message. Provides that the Attorney General …