94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1949

 

Introduced 2/14/2005, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Kevin A. McCarthy

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
110 ILCS 330/5   from Ch. 23, par. 1375

    Amends the University of Illinois Hospital Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning charges for hospital services.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning education.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The University of Illinois Hospital Act is
5 amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
 
6     (110 ILCS 330/5)  (from Ch. 23, par. 1375)
7     Sec. 5. The The University may establish and collect
8 charges for hospital services rendered in the University of
9 Illinois Hospital or in connection with a University health
10 care program. However, with respect to health care professional
11 services rendered in connection with a University health care
12 program at the University of Illinois Hospital or elsewhere by
13 the Doctors of Medicine, the Doctors of Dentistry, or other
14 health care professionals who are members of the University
15 faculty, charges for such professional services shall not be
16 established or collected by the University or the University of
17 Illinois Hospital but may be by said members of said faculty
18 who render such services under a plan or plans organized and
19 administered by them. All such charges shall be deposited in a
20 special fund or funds in the treasury of the University. The
21 billing, collecting and disbursing of any such fund shall
22 remain exclusively under the supervision and control of such
23 faculty under a plan or plans established by them for the
24 general benefit and support of University programs and
25 activities related to the health professions, provided no
26 charges may be made or collected until such plan has been
27 approved by the University. However, no person shall make or
28 collect a personal or professional charge for his own account
29 for treating, caring for or nursing a patient in the University
30 of Illinois Hospital (other than health care professional
31 services provided at the University of Illinois Hospital by
32 non-salaried adjunct University faculty who are licensed

 

 

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1 dentists or physicians licensed to practice medicine in all its
2 branches members) or in connection with a University health
3 care program. Nothing herein shall prevent the University from
4 approving a plan under which any such fund in the University
5 treasury may be utilized in paying the University salaries of
6 such faculty members, or from assisting in the billing and
7 collection of professional charges if all University costs in
8 connection therewith are paid from the charges so collected.
9 (Source: P.A. 91-206, eff. 7-20-99; 92-760, eff. 8-2-02.)