SB2863 Summary

• Amends the Nursing Home Care Act to require Medicaid-funded long-term care facilities to display fraud, abuse, and neglect reporting information in lobbies, dining areas, and each floor, approved by the Illinois Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

• Requires facilities to provide reporting information to residents at admission and to family members or emergency contacts about how to report fraud, abuse, and neglect.

• Mandates owners and licensees disclose any ownership interests in vendors doing business with the facility within 30 days, with Medicaid-funded facilities submitting copies to the Illinois Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

• Requires facility management to disclose all abuse and neglect reports made by any individual to owners and licensees within 24 hours and maintain records documenting this compliance.

• Establishes penalties for willful failures to maintain records, produce documents for inspection, or make required disclosures as Class A misdemeanor (first offense) or Class 4 felony (subsequent offense); filing false documents is a Class A misdemeanor.

• Expands the definition of "owner" and "licensee" in criminal code to include facilities under the MR/DD Community Care Act and clarifies criminal penalties for abuse and neglect of long-term care facility residents.