093_HB2650

 
                                     LRB093 07568 DRJ 07744 b

 1        AN ACT in relation to public aid.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.   The  Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
 5    changing Section 5-4.1 as follows:

 6        (305 ILCS 5/5-4.1) (from Ch. 23, par. 5-4.1)
 7        Sec. 5-4.1.  Co-payments.  The  Department  may  by  rule
 8    provide  that recipients under any Article of this Code shall
 9    pay a fee as a co-payment for services.  Co-payments may  not
10    exceed  $3  for  brand  name  drugs,  $1  for  other pharmacy
11    services, and $2 for physicians  services,  dental  services,
12    optical   services   and   supplies,  chiropractic  services,
13    podiatry  services,  and  encounter  rate  clinic   services.
14    Co-payments  may  not  exceed  $3 for hospital outpatient and
15    clinic services.  Provided, however, that any such rule  must
16    provide  that  no  co-payment requirement can exist for renal
17    dialysis, radiation therapy, cancer  chemotherapy,  treatment
18    of mental illnesses, or insulin, and other products necessary
19    on  a  recurring  basis,  the  absence of which would be life
20    threatening, or where co-payment  expenditures  for  required
21    services  and/or  medications  for  chronic diseases that the
22    Illinois Department shall by rule designate  shall  cause  an
23    extensive  financial burden on the recipient, and provided no
24    co-payment shall exist for emergency  room  encounters  which
25    are for medical emergencies.
26    (Source: P.A. 92-597, eff. 6-28-02.)

27        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
28    becoming law.