HB5860 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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

Section 5. The Excellence in Academic Medicine Act is amended by changing Sections 15, 55, and 60 as follows:

(30 ILCS 775/15)

Sec. 15. Definitions. As used in this Act:

"Academic medical center hospital" means a hospital located in Illinois which is either (i) under common ownership with the college of medicine of a college or university or (ii) a free-standing hospital in which the majority of the clinical chiefs of service are department chairmen in an affiliated medical school.

"Academic medical center children's hospital" means a children's hospital which is separately incorporated and non-integrated into the academic medical center hospital but which is the pediatric partner for an academic medical center hospital and which serves as the primary teaching hospital for pediatrics for its affiliated medical school; children's hospitals which are separately incorporated but integrated into the academic medical center hospital are considered part of the academic medical center hospital.

"Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical center hospital" means an academic medical center hospital located in the Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area.

"Independent academic medical center hospital" means the primary teaching hospital for the University of Illinois at Urbana.

"Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical center hospital" means an academic medical center hospital located outside the Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area.

"Qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical center hospital" means any Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical center hospital that either directly or in connection with its affiliated medical school receives in excess of $8,000,000 in grants or contracts from the National Institutes of Health during the calendar year preceding the beginning of the State fiscal year; except that for the purposes of Section 25, the term also includes the entity specified in subsection (e) of that Section.

"Qualified Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical center hospital" means the primary teaching hospital for the University of Illinois at Urbana, the primary teaching hospital for the University of Illinois School of Medicine at Peoria, and the primary teaching hospital for the University of Illinois School of Medicine at Rockford, and the primary teaching hospitals for Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield.

"Qualified academic medical center hospital" means (i) a qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical center hospital, (ii) a qualified Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical center hospital, or (iii) an academic medical center children's hospital.

"Qualified programs" include:

(i) Thoracic Transplantation: heart and lung, in particular;

(ii) Cancer: particularly biologic modifiers of tumor response, and mechanisms of drug resistance in cancer therapy;

(iii) Shock/Burn: development of biological alternatives to skin for grafting in burn injury, and research in mechanisms of shock and tissue injury in severe injury;

(iv) Abdominal transplantation: kidney, liver, pancreas, and development of islet cell and small bowel transplantation technologies;

(v) Minimally invasive surgery: particularly laparoscopic surgery;

(vi) High performance medical computing: telemedicine and teleradiology;

(vii) Transmyocardial laser revascularization: a laser creates holes in heart muscles to allow new blood flow;

(viii) Pet scanning: viewing how organs function (CT and MRI only allow viewing of the structure of an organ);

(ix) Strokes in the African-American community: particularly risk factors for cerebral vascular accident (strokes) in the African-American community at much higher risk than the general population;

(x) Neurosurgery: particularly focusing on interventional neuroradiology;

(xi) Comprehensive eye center: including further development in pediatric eye trauma;

(xii) Cancers: particularly melanoma, head and neck;

(xiii) Pediatric cancer;

(xiv) Invasive pediatric cardiology;

(xv) Pediatric organ transplantation: transplantation of solid organs, marrow, and other stem cells; and

(xvi) Such other programs as may be identified.

(Source: P.A. 92-10, eff. 6-11-01.)

(30 ILCS 775/55)

Sec. 55. Payment of funds. The Comptroller shall pay funds appropriated to the Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund and the Medical Research and Development Fund to the appropriate qualified academic medical center hospitals as the funds are appropriated by the General Assembly and come due under this Act. The payment of all funds under this Act by the State shall be made directly to the academic medical center hospital due the funds, except any funds due to any institution of the University of Illinois as defined in Section 15 shall be paid to the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center, which shall be bound to expend the funds on the institution due the funds.

(Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.)

(30 ILCS 775/60)

Sec. 60. Restriction on funds. No academic medical center hospital shall be eligible for payments from the Medical Research and Development Fund unless the academic medical center hospital qualifies under Section 15 as a qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical center hospital which in connection with its affiliated medical school received at least $8,000,000 in the preceding calendar year in grants or contracts from the National Institutes of Health; except that this restriction does not apply to the entity specified in subsection (e) of Section 25.

If a hospital is eligible for funds from the Independent Academic Medical Center Fund, that hospital shall not receive funds from the Medical Research and Development Fund or the Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund. If a hospital receives funds from the Medical Research and Development Fund or the Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund, that hospital is ineligible to receive funds from the Independent Academic Medical Center Fund.

(Source: P.A. 92-10, eff. 6-11-01.)

(30 ILCS 775/35 rep.)

Section 10. The Excellence in Academic Medicine Act is amended by repealing Section 35.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2010.