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Health Care Worker Registry and Sex Offender Checks
Illinois Medicaid - HFS·IL·Provider Notice
Effective date
Apr 10, 2009
We identified it
Jun 21, 2026
Summary
Illinois supportive living facilities must now check the Health Care Worker Registry for all employees subject to background check requirements (not just CNAs) and conduct sex offender searches using all three registries (Illinois State Police, Illinois DOC, and National registry) instead of just the National registry to ensure complete identification of registered sex offenders with aliases.
Action Required
This policy does not directly impact medical billing teams as it pertains to supportive living facility employee background checks and resident admission procedures rather than healthcare billing or coding requirements.