Bill Text: IL HB3788 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Changes the effective date from January 1, 2024 to January 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-04-24 - Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 30, 2024 [HB3788 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3788-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Community Benefits Act is amended by adding
Section 23 as follows:
(210 ILCS 76/23 new)
Sec. 23. Public reports.
(a) In order to increase transparency and accessibility of
charity care and financial assistance data, a hospital shall
make the annual hospital community benefits plan report
submitted to the Attorney General under Section 20 available
to the public by publishing the information on the hospital's
website in the same location where annual reports are posted
or on a prominent location on the homepage of the hospital's
website. A hospital is not required to post its audited
financial statements. Information made available to the public
shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following:
(1) The reporting period.
(2) Charity care costs consistent with the reporting
requirements in paragraph (3) of subsection (a) of Section
20. Charity care costs associated with services provided
in a hospital's emergency department shall be reported as
a subset of total charity care costs.

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(3) Total net patient revenue, reported separately by
hospital if the reporting health system includes more than
one hospital.
(4) Total community benefits spending. If a hospital
is owned or operated by a health system, total community
benefits spending may be reported as a health system.
(5) Data on financial assistance applications
consistent with the reporting requirements in paragraph
(3) of subsection (a) of Section 20, including:
(A) the number of applications submitted to the
hospital, both complete and incomplete;
(B) the number of applications approved; and
(C) the number of applications denied and the 5
most frequent reasons for denial.
(6) To the extent that race, ethnicity, sex, or
preferred language is collected and available for
financial assistance applications, the data outlined in
paragraph (5) shall be reported by race, ethnicity, sex,
and preferred language. If this data is not provided by
the patient, the hospital shall indicate this in its
reports. Public reporting of this information shall begin
with the community benefit report filed on or after July
1, 2022. A hospital that files a report without having a
full year of demographic data as required by this Act may
indicate this in its report.
(b) The Attorney General shall provide notice on the

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Attorney General's website informing the public that, upon
request, the Attorney General will provide the annual reports
filed with the Attorney General under Section 20. The notice
shall include the contact information to submit a request.