100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB5238

 

Introduced , by Rep. Robert W. Pritchard

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
210 ILCS 85/10.8a new

    Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that every physician employed by a hospital or hospital affiliate shall have specified rights relating to matters including compensation, academic freedom, medical records, evaluation of clinical activity, performance of activities outside of defined employed time, conflict of interest disclosures, resource management, and patient advocacy.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning physician rights.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by adding
5Section 10.8a as follows:
 
6    (210 ILCS 85/10.8a new)
7    Sec. 10.8a. Employed Physician's Bill of Rights.
8    (a) This Section may be referred to as the Employed
9Physician's Bill of Rights.
10    (b) Every physician employed by a hospital or hospital
11affiliate shall have the right:
12        (1) to compensation based on the totality of the
13    physician's activities for the hospital or hospital
14    affiliate employing the physician, including, but not
15    limited to, educational endeavors and preparation,
16    committee participation, student and resident activities,
17    and administrative responsibilities;
18        (2) to academic freedom, without censorship in
19    clinical research or academic pursuits;
20        (3) to not be solely responsible for data entry,
21    coding, and management of the use of electronic medical
22    record systems;
23        (4) to evaluation of clinical activity through the peer

 

 

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1    review process and to be judged only by clinicians and not
2    corporate executives;
3        (5) to perform activities outside of defined employed
4    time boundaries solely at the prerogative of the individual
5    physician and not the hospital or hospital affiliate
6    employing the physician, unless the activities directly
7    conflict with or increase risk for the hospital or hospital
8    affiliate;
9        (6) to have conflict of interest disclosures limited to
10    the physician's activities that directly affect the
11    hospital or hospital affiliate employing the physician and
12    the disclosures should only be made to entities that
13    directly reimburse the physician during his or her period
14    of employment;
15        (7) to have resources appropriately allocated by the
16    hospital or hospital affiliate employing the physician for
17    continuing medical education as defined by State licensure
18    guidelines; and
19        (8) to be legally empowered to be a patient advocate
20    and to be allowed to adhere to the spirit of the
21    Hippocratic Oath allowing patient privacy,
22    confidentiality, and continuity of a patient's health care
23    and dignity.