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  "name": "Illini Hospital, Claimant, v. State of Illinois, Respondent",
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        "text": "Polos, C.J.\nThis cause is before the Court for reconsideration of an order of September 2, 1975, in which we denied Respondent\u2019s motion to dismiss.\nClaimant seeks to recover the sum of $832.99 for hospital and medical services rendered to one Lois G. Taylor. Claimant has alleged that Mrs. Taylor was a \u201cdisabled person\u201d within the meaning of Section 3-1 of the Public Aid Code, Ill. Rev. Stat., Ch. 23, \u00a73-1, and that the Illinois Department of Public Aid is therefore liable for the medical services rendered to her by Claimant.\nLois G. Taylor was not a public aid recipient at the time that services were rendered by Claimant, there having been a determination of non-disability by the Illinois Department of Public Aid. Respondent, in moving to dismiss, contends that the finding of the Illinois Department of Public Aid is binding upon Claimant, and that this Court is without jurisdiction to hear a challenge to that finding.\nIn deciding this issue, the Court is called upon to construe a number of provisions of the Public Aid Code, Ill. Rev. Stat., Ch. 23, \u00a7 1, et seq. Claimant relies upon Section 11-13 of the Code, Ill. Rev. Stat., Ch. 23, \u00a7 11-13, which provides in pertinent part:\n\u201cVendors seeking to enforce obligations of a government unit of the Illinois Department for goods and services (1) furnished to or in behalf of recipients and (2) subject to a vendor payment as defined in Section 2-5, shall commence their actions in the appropriate Circuit Court or Court of Claims ...\u201d\nChapter 23, Sec. 2-5 in turn defines \u201cvendor payment\u201d as \u201ca payment made directly to the person, firm, corporation, association, agency, institution, or other legal entity supplying goods and services to a recipient.\u201d \u201cRecipient\u201d is defined by Ill. Rev. Stat., Ch. 23, \u00a7 2-9 as \u201ca person who is receiving financial aid under any of the provisions of this Code.\u201d\nClaimant contends that this statute gives a vendor of services a direct remedy by which it can sue the State to recover for services rendered to one allegedly eligible for Public Aid benefits. Claimant contends that determination that the person for whom services were rendered was ineligible for benefits, is not binding on a vendor of services.\nRespondent, on the other hand, points to Section 11-8 of the Public Aid Code, Ill. Rev. Stat., Ch. 23, \u00a7 11-8, which provides that, \u201cApplicants or recipients of aid may, at any time within sixty days... appeal a decision denying or terminating aid...\u201d Respondent also relies upon Section 11-8.7 of the Code, Ill. Rev. Stat., Ch. 23, \u00a7 11-8.7, which states:\n\u201cThe provisions of the \u2018Administrative Review Act\u2019, approved May 8, 1945, as amended, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto, shall apply to and govern all proceedings for the judicial review of final administrative decisions of the Illinois Department on appeals by applicants or recipients...\u201d\nRespondent therefore contends that only an applicant or recipient of Public Aid can challenge a decision denying or terminating aid, and then only under the \u201cAdministrative Review Act.\u201d\nThis Court previously held, in Franciscan Sisters v. State, 31 Ill. Ct. Cl. 58, that a vendor of services could bring an action in the Court of Claims to recover for services rendered to a Public Aid recipient. In that action, one Charles Hameretnck was a patient at the Claimant hospital from September, 1969, to February, 1970. He had been declared a Public Aid recipient by the Department of Public Aid, retroactive to October 1, 1969, and the Claimant hospital brought suit to recover for services rendered to him as a recipient.\nHere we are presented a substantially different situation, for Lois G. Taylor has never been declared a recipient of Public Aid.\nSection 11-13 of the Public Aid Code gives vendors the right to enforce obligations of a governmental unit for goods and services furnished \u201cto or in behalf of recipiente\u201d(emphasis supplied). \u201cRecipients\u201d is in turn defined by Section 2-9 of the Code as \u201ca person who is receiving financial aid under any provision of this Code.\u201d\nWe think this language evidences the legislature\u2019s intention that a vendor be permitted to maintain an action under Section 11-13 of the Code, only if he has furnished goods and services to or in behalf of one who is already a \u201crecipient\u201d i.e. one who has already been declared eligible for benefits by the Department of Public Aid. Thus a vendor who furnishes goods and services to one who has been determined to be ineligible by the Department of Public Aid, may not bring an action in the Court of Claims to litigate the issue of whether the person for whom the services were rendered was entitled to Public Aid benefits.\nThis Court\u2019s order of September 2, 1975, denying Respondent\u2019s motion to dismiss, is accordingly vacated. For the above and foregoing reasons, the Respondent\u2019s motion to dismiss this cause is hereby granted.",
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        "author": "Polos, C.J."
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    "head_matter": "(No. 75-CC-0358\nIllini Hospital, Claimant, v. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOrder filed September 29, 1977."
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