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  "id": 2698647,
  "name": "University of Chicago Hospital, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "University of Chicago Hospital v. State",
  "decision_date": "1984-05-17",
  "docket_number": "No. 83-CC-1590",
  "first_page": "296",
  "last_page": "298",
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      "cite": "36 Ill. Ct. Cl. 296"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T17:14:57.173915+00:00",
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "University of Chicago Hospital, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Roe, C.J.\nThis cause coming on to be heard on Respondent\u2019s motion to dismiss, due notice having been given and the Court being fully advised finds as follows:\nThe University of Chicago Hospital is here seeking a $2,793.60 vendor payment, as provided in section 11 \u2014 13 of the Public Aid Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 23, par. 11 \u2014 13), from the Illinois Department of Public Aid (IDPA), for inpatient neonatal services which it rendered to a newborn infant during May and June of 1979. The subject services began with the date on which the infant\u2019s mother, a public aid recipient, was discharged from Claimant\u2019s hospital, and ended with the infant\u2019s discharge eight days later.\nAs explained by IDPA in its departmental report, hospitals are to bill both the mother\u2019s and the newborn\u2019s care to IDPA on a single invoice, covering services from the mother\u2019s admission for childbirth and including the days during which both mother and newborn were patients. Claimant did so in this case, and was paid in full by IDPA for the services furnished prior to the mother\u2019s discharge. The subsequent neonatal services for this infant are not, however, eligible for payment by the State, since at no time here relevant did the mother apply to IDPA to request recipient status for her newborn daughter. In the absence of such application, IDPA had no authority to determine the infant\u2019s eligibility for State-paid medical assistance.\nAs IDPA points out, a newborn child does not become a recipient simply as a result of his or her birth to a recipient mother. All persons wishing the benefits of recipient status must timely apply to IDPA for that status. In the case of minor children, the Public Aid Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 23, par. 11 \u2014 15) provides that a parent, relative or guardian may apply for recipient status on the minor\u2019s behalf. IDPA\u2019s medical assistance program (MAP) Handbook for Hospitals outlines the procedures whereby the Claimant could have aided the mother in applying for MAP coverage for her infant. Since no application was submitted, there was no MAP coverage for the subject services.\nBecause this infant was not determined eligible for recipient status with respect to the period during which these services were rendered, payment by the State would be contrary to IDPA requirements.\nIt is hereby ordered that the claim be dismissed, the Claimant having failed to demonstrate an entitlement to payment for the subject neonatal services.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Roe, C.J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Hayt, Hayt & Landau, for Claimant.",
      "Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General (Kathleen O\u2019Brien, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 83-CC-1590\nUniversity of Chicago Hospital, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed May 17, 1984.\nHayt, Hayt & Landau, for Claimant.\nNeil F. Hartigan, Attorney General (Kathleen O\u2019Brien, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0296-01",
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  "last_page_order": 386
}