96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB5860

 

Introduced 2/10/2010, by Rep. Naomi D. Jakobsson

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
30 ILCS 775/15
30 ILCS 775/55
30 ILCS 775/60
30 ILCS 775/35 rep.

    Amends the Excellence in Academic Medicine Act. Defines the primary teaching hospital for the University of Illinois at Urbana as a qualified non-Chicago medicare metropolitan statistical area academic medical center hospital (instead of an independent academic medical center hospital). Repeals the independent academic medical center program. Makes changes concerning funding. Effective July 1, 2010.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning finance.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Excellence in Academic Medicine Act is
5 amended by changing Sections 15, 55, and 60 as follows:
 
6     (30 ILCS 775/15)
7     Sec. 15. Definitions. As used in this Act:
8     "Academic medical center hospital" means a hospital
9 located in Illinois which is either (i) under common ownership
10 with the college of medicine of a college or university or (ii)
11 a free-standing hospital in which the majority of the clinical
12 chiefs of service are department chairmen in an affiliated
13 medical school.
14     "Academic medical center children's hospital" means a
15 children's hospital which is separately incorporated and
16 non-integrated into the academic medical center hospital but
17 which is the pediatric partner for an academic medical center
18 hospital and which serves as the primary teaching hospital for
19 pediatrics for its affiliated medical school; children's
20 hospitals which are separately incorporated but integrated
21 into the academic medical center hospital are considered part
22 of the academic medical center hospital.
23     "Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic

 

 

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1 medical center hospital" means an academic medical center
2 hospital located in the Chicago Medicare Metropolitan
3 Statistical Area.
4     "Independent academic medical center hospital" means the
5 primary teaching hospital for the University of Illinois at
6 Urbana.
7     "Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area
8 academic medical center hospital" means an academic medical
9 center hospital located outside the Chicago Medicare
10 Metropolitan Statistical Area.
11     "Qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area
12 academic medical center hospital" means any Chicago Medicare
13 Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical center hospital
14 that either directly or in connection with its affiliated
15 medical school receives in excess of $8,000,000 in grants or
16 contracts from the National Institutes of Health during the
17 calendar year preceding the beginning of the State fiscal year;
18 except that for the purposes of Section 25, the term also
19 includes the entity specified in subsection (e) of that
20 Section.
21     "Qualified Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical
22 Area academic medical center hospital" means the primary
23 teaching hospital for the University of Illinois at Urbana, the
24 primary teaching hospital for the University of Illinois School
25 of Medicine at Peoria, and the primary teaching hospital for
26 the University of Illinois School of Medicine at Rockford, and

 

 

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1 the primary teaching hospitals for Southern Illinois
2 University School of Medicine in Springfield.
3     "Qualified academic medical center hospital" means (i) a
4 qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area
5 academic medical center hospital, (ii) a qualified Non-Chicago
6 Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical center
7 hospital, or (iii) an academic medical center children's
8 hospital.
9     "Qualified programs" include:
10         (i) Thoracic Transplantation: heart and lung, in
11     particular;
12         (ii) Cancer: particularly biologic modifiers of tumor
13     response, and mechanisms of drug resistance in cancer
14     therapy;
15         (iii) Shock/Burn: development of biological
16     alternatives to skin for grafting in burn injury, and
17     research in mechanisms of shock and tissue injury in severe
18     injury;
19         (iv) Abdominal transplantation: kidney, liver,
20     pancreas, and development of islet cell and small bowel
21     transplantation technologies;
22         (v) Minimally invasive surgery: particularly
23     laparoscopic surgery;
24         (vi) High performance medical computing: telemedicine
25     and teleradiology;
26         (vii) Transmyocardial laser revascularization: a laser

 

 

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1     creates holes in heart muscles to allow new blood flow;
2         (viii) Pet scanning: viewing how organs function (CT
3     and MRI only allow viewing of the structure of an organ);
4         (ix) Strokes in the African-American community:
5     particularly risk factors for cerebral vascular accident
6     (strokes) in the African-American community at much higher
7     risk than the general population;
8         (x) Neurosurgery: particularly focusing on
9     interventional neuroradiology;
10         (xi) Comprehensive eye center: including further
11     development in pediatric eye trauma;
12         (xii) Cancers: particularly melanoma, head and neck;
13         (xiii) Pediatric cancer;
14         (xiv) Invasive pediatric cardiology;
15         (xv) Pediatric organ transplantation: transplantation
16     of solid organs, marrow, and other stem cells; and
17         (xvi) Such other programs as may be identified.
18 (Source: P.A. 92-10, eff. 6-11-01.)
 
19     (30 ILCS 775/55)
20     Sec. 55. Payment of funds. The Comptroller shall pay funds
21 appropriated to the Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund and
22 the Medical Research and Development Fund to the appropriate
23 qualified academic medical center hospitals as the funds are
24 appropriated by the General Assembly and come due under this
25 Act. The payment of all funds under this Act by the State shall

 

 

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1 be made directly to the academic medical center hospital due
2 the funds, except any funds due to any institution of the
3 University of Illinois as defined in Section 15 shall be paid
4 to the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center, which
5 shall be bound to expend the funds on the institution due the
6 funds.
7 (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.)
 
8     (30 ILCS 775/60)
9     Sec. 60. Restriction on funds. No academic medical center
10 hospital shall be eligible for payments from the Medical
11 Research and Development Fund unless the academic medical
12 center hospital qualifies under Section 15 as a qualified
13 Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic
14 medical center hospital which in connection with its affiliated
15 medical school received at least $8,000,000 in the preceding
16 calendar year in grants or contracts from the National
17 Institutes of Health; except that this restriction does not
18 apply to the entity specified in subsection (e) of Section 25.
19     If a hospital is eligible for funds from the Independent
20 Academic Medical Center Fund, that hospital shall not receive
21 funds from the Medical Research and Development Fund or the
22 Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund. If a hospital receives
23 funds from the Medical Research and Development Fund or the
24 Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund, that hospital is
25 ineligible to receive funds from the Independent Academic

 

 

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1 Medical Center Fund.
2 (Source: P.A. 92-10, eff. 6-11-01.)
 
3     (30 ILCS 775/35 rep.)
4     Section 10. The Excellence in Academic Medicine Act is
5 amended by repealing Section 35.
 
6     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
7 2010.