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Public Act 92-0644
SB1705 Enrolled LRB9213320ACdv
AN ACT concerning civil procedure.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
changing Section 8-2101 as follows:
(735 ILCS 5/8-2101) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-2101)
Sec. 8-2101. Information obtained. All information,
interviews, reports, statements, memoranda, recommendations,
letters of reference or other third party confidential
assessments of a health care practitioner's professional
competence, or other data of the Illinois Department of
Public Health, local health departments, the Department of
Human Services (as successor to the Department of Mental
Health and Developmental Disabilities), the Mental Health and
Developmental Disabilities Medical Review Board, Illinois
State Medical Society, allied medical societies, health
maintenance organizations, medical organizations under
contract with health maintenance organizations or with
insurance or other health care delivery entities or
facilities, tissue banks, organ procurement agencies,
physician-owned insurance companies inter-insurance exchanges
and their agents, committees of ambulatory surgical treatment
centers or post-surgical recovery centers or their medical
staffs, or committees of licensed or accredited hospitals or
their medical staffs, including Patient Care Audit
Committees, Medical Care Evaluation Committees, Utilization
Review Committees, Credential Committees and Executive
Committees, or their designees (but not the medical records
pertaining to the patient), used in the course of internal
quality control or of medical study for the purpose of
reducing morbidity or mortality, or for improving patient
care or increasing organ and tissue donation, shall be
privileged, strictly confidential and shall be used only for
medical research, increasing organ and tissue donation, the
evaluation and improvement of quality care, or granting,
limiting or revoking staff privileges or agreements for
services, except that in any health maintenance organization
proceeding to decide upon a physician's services or any
hospital or ambulatory surgical treatment center proceeding
to decide upon a physician's staff privileges, or in any
judicial review of either, the claim of confidentiality shall
not be invoked to deny such physician access to or use of
data upon which such a decision was based.
(Source: P.A. 89-393, eff. 8-20-95; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)
Passed in the General Assembly April 30, 2002.
Approved July 11, 2002.
Effective January 01, 2003.
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