Illinois Attestation for Medicaid Payment Increase? Not Yet

As some of you know, The Affordable Care Act includes a historic investment to expand access to Medicaid for children. As of January 1, Medicaid payment rates are raised to at least Medicare rates for primary care and immunization services. While this increase is part of existing federal law, eligible pediatricians must sign up to receive it: States may have their own reasonable deadlines for pediatricians to sign up (“self-attest”) for the increase, and many of these deadlines are happening within the next month. This is awesome, except, the State of Illinois has yet to publish how IL doctors ought to go about getting the payment increase. I emailed the Scott G. Allen, MS, Executive Director of Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics and he emailed me this notice that they sent out to their members. Dear ICAAP Member: The email below from the national AAP advises members to self-attest to receive Medicaid payment increases.  Unfortunately, the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) has not yet established its guidelines for how providers can self-attest nor announced other details about the rate increases.  So at this point, you will not find information on the AAP or ICAAP web sites, and no action on your part is possible.  However, ICAAP will alert members as soon as HFS has released information on how to self-attest and what the deadline is.  We encourage all members who serve Medicaid clients to apply for these increases...
Source: Pediatric Inc - Category: Pediatricians Authors: Tags: Uncategorized Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services HFS Illinois Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Source Type: blogs