(a) Each licensee shall file annually, or more often as the Director shall by rule prescribe, an attested financial statement. An audited financial statement may be required of a particular facility, if the Director determines that additional information is needed. (b) No public funds shall be expended for the services of a home health agency which has failed to file the financial statement required by this Section. (c) The Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Director of the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall promulgate one set of regulations for the filing of financial statements, and shall provide in these regulations for forms, information required, intervals and dates of filing, and such other provisions as he may deem necessary. Regulations shall be published in sufficient time to permit those licensees who must first file financial statements time in which to do so.
(d) The Director shall seek the advice and comments of other State and Federal agencies which require the submission of financial data from home health agencies licensed under this Act and shall incorporate the information requirements of these agencies into the forms it adopts or issues under this Act and shall otherwise coordinate its regulations with the requirements of these agencies so as to impose the least possible burden on licensees. No other State agency may require submission of financial data except as expressly authorized by law or as necessary to meet requirements of federal law or regulation. Information obtained under this Section shall be made available, upon request, by the Department to any other State agency or legislative commission to which such information is necessary for investigations or to execute the intent of State or Federal law or regulation.Amended by P.A. 095-0331,§ 635, eff. 8/21/2007.