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The Department of Public Aid was created in 1963 as the successor to the Illinois Public Aid Commission (L. 1963, p. 2055). In 1967 it was charged with administering the new Public Aid Code (L. 1967, p. 118). Additionally a Board of Public Aid Commissioners, composed of seven members appointed by the Governor, was retained to evaluate policies and practices, recommend legislation, and submit regular reports to the Governor and the General Assembly (L. 1963, p. 2058).
For administrative histories of the ILLINOIS PUBLIC AID COMMISSION and the ILLINOIS EMERGENCY RELIEF COMMISSION see RG 406.000.
247.001
MEDICAL PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATIVE FILES. 1969-1975. 13 cu. ft. No index.
Files include correspondence, reports, and minutes of committees (i.e., Chiropractic Advisory Committee, State Dental Advisory Committee, Optometric Advisory Committee, Podiatric Advisory Committee, Governmental Health Program Reimbursement Committee, Committee on Usual and Customary Fees, Committee on Health Care Financing). Subjects include Medicaid, audits, Social Security, work incentive programs, nursing home care, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, on-site visits at facilities, abortions, interim care grant program, group care facilities, alcoholism, Illinois Family Planning Council, homemaker service to the elderly and handicapped, crippled children, mental health code revisions, personnel, long-term care, medical payments reporting system, out-of-state placements in care facilities, customary fees, renal dialysis, prescription drugs, physician performance, federal guidelines, and pending legislation.
247.002
COUNTY NURSING HOME AND SHELTER CARE FACILITY COST REPORTS. 1940-1975. 16 cu. ft. No index.
Record includes annual, semi-annual, quarterly, and monthly cost care reports showing the name and county of the nursing home, report date, a listing of revenues and expenditures, patient population, names and salaries of staff, and amounts of contractual services. Related correspondence concerns inspections, nursing home rates and operating costs, patient population, programs, and facilities. Occasionally included are nursing home annual reports and reports on specialized programs, construction, services, evaluations, and staff.
247.003
DIRECTOR'S ADMINISTRATIVE FILES. 1962-1981. 81 cu. ft. No index.
Files include correspondence, departmental rules and guidelines, meeting minutes (e.g., Illinois State Medical Society, Advisory Committee on Aging, Health Cabinet, Special Investigative Committee on Medicaid, Cook County Welfare Services Committee), monthly and annual activity reports, court case files, manuals, handbooks, copies of General Assembly Senate and House bills, position papers, organizational charts, and related memoranda. Subjects include abortions, data processing procedures, aging, food stamps, home repairs, job placement, union negotiations, the Medicaid program, public aid eligibility, nursing homes, affirmative action, welfare fraud, staff training, long-term care, conference attendance, federal funding, foster care, welfare reform, employee grievances, agency organization, Cuban refugees, revision of the Public Aid Code, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, child support collection, national health care insurance, and departmental budgets and appropriations.
247.004
DIRECTOR'S CHIEF ASSISTANT'S ADMINISTRATIVE FILES. 1970-1978. 12 cu. ft. No index.
Files include correspondence, plans, studies, rules, regulations, manuals, guidelines, monthly and annual activity reports, field audit reports, conference and seminar materials, newsletters, bulletins, newspaper clippings, and related memoranda. Subjects include medical billing systems, health facilities, prescription medicines, vendor rates, departmental reorganizations, food stamps, welfare abuse, medical cards, nursing homes, appropriations, budgets, sheltered care, medical co-payments, ambulance rates, personnel, and litigation.
247.005
FIELD AUDIT REPORTS. 1969-1978. 22 cu. ft. No index.
Audits of vendors (e.g., dentists, laboratories, hospitals, nursing homes, optometrists, pharmacies, podiatrists, physicians) in the health care field include billing statements, schedules of charges, service agreements, equipment and supply inventories, recoupment worksheets, schedules of procedures and policies, utilization reports, tax returns, patient listings, intake interviews, and related correspondence. Also included are copies of health care plans and agreements, proposed legislation, federal rules and regulations, press releases, newsletters, and conference and seminar materials.
247.006
LEGISLATIVE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC AID MEETING MINUTES. March 3, 1967-December 14, 1978. 5 cu. ft. No index.
Monthly meeting minutes concern nursing homes, welfare fraud, medical costs, budgets, cost of living increases, departmental reorganization, Medicaid management information systems, delayed payments, emergency assistance, adult education, chiropractic services, hiring freezes, prescription drugs, school lunch programs, and food standards. Also included are transcripts of testimony, copies of pending and approved legislation, topical reports (e.g., child and spouse support, welfare reform, ambulance service), copies of court decisions, organizational charts, exhibits, and related memoranda and correspondence.
247.007
LEGISLATIVE LIAISON ADMINISTRATIVE FILES. 1974-1978. 16 cu. ft. No index.
Files include copies of pending legislation, departmental position papers, bill analyses, roll call votes, legislative summaries, status reports, hearing schedules, departmental organization charts, legislative committee meeting minutes, copies of testimony, research reports, copies of rules and regulations, contractual service agreements, audit reports, committee membership lists, copies of finalized and approved legislation, news releases, newspaper clippings, and related memoranda and correspondence.
Subjects include such topics as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, administrative rules and regulations, aging, appropriations, abortions, child care payments, amendments to the criminal code, medical assistance fraud, cost savings, abused and neglected children, nursing homes, hospital costs, alimony and child support, ambulance services, comprehensive health planning, food stamps, public defenders, sales tax relief, sex discrimination, and prescription drugs.
247.008
MEDICAL FIELD SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE FILES. 1967-1979. 5 cu. ft. No index.
Files include correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, bulletins, guidelines, flowcharts, rules and regulations, position papers, bill analyses, press releases, contractual agreements, listings of Medicaid recipients, and hospital survey reports. Subjects include medical program changes, revised forms, welfare fraud, bill payments, renal disease program, data processing procedures, cost of living increases, Medicaid, recipient identification systems, quality control systems, hospital admissions, co-payments, affirmative action plans, personnel, and food stamps.
247.009
MONTHLY REPORTING PROJECT FILES. 1985. 0.1 cu. ft. No index.
Files consist of monthly reports on persons receiving food stamps and Aid to Families with Dependent Children funds.
These records are available at the Illinois State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State.
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