(215 ILCS 105/14) (from Ch. 73, par. 1314)
Sec. 14.
Confidentiality.
(a) All steps necessary under State and
Federal law to protect confidentiality
of applicants and covered persons shall be undertaken by the Board to
prevent the identification of individual
records of persons covered under the Plan, rejected by the
Plan, or who
become ineligible for further participation in the Plan. Procedures shall be
written by the Board
to assure the confidentiality
of records of persons covered under, rejected by, or who become
ineligible for further participation in, the Plan when gathering and submitting
data to the Board or any other entity.
(b) The information submitted to the Board
by hospitals pursuant to this Act
shall be privileged and confidential,
and shall not be disclosed in any manner. The foregoing includes, but shall
not be limited to, disclosure, inspection or copying under the
Freedom of Information Act, the State Records Act, and paragraph (1) of Section
404
of the Illinois Insurance Code. However, the prohibitions stated in this
subsection shall not apply to the compilations of information assembled
by the Board pursuant to subsections c. and e. of
Section 3 of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 90-30, eff. 7-1-97.)
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