Bill Amendment: IL HB2706 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: HOSP-MORTALITY RATE REPORTING
Status: 2015-08-10 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0326 [HB2706 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB2706-House_Amendment_001.html
Bill Title: HOSP-MORTALITY RATE REPORTING
Status: 2015-08-10 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0326 [HB2706 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB2706-House_Amendment_001.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2706
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2706 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Hospital Report Card Act is amended by | ||||||
5 | changing Section 30 as follows:
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6 | (210 ILCS 86/30)
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7 | Sec. 30. Department reports. The Department of Public | ||||||
8 | Health shall
annually submit
to the General Assembly a report | ||||||
9 | summarizing the quarterly reports by health
service area
and | ||||||
10 | shall publish that report on its website. The Department of | ||||||
11 | Public Health
may issue
quarterly informational bulletins at | ||||||
12 | its discretion, summarizing all or part of
the information
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13 | submitted in these quarterly reports. The Department shall | ||||||
14 | publish quality and safety measures on major public health | ||||||
15 | problems, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, that | ||||||
16 | have been vetted by the National Quality Forum, the Agency for |
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1 | Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Disease | ||||||
2 | Control and Prevention, or the Centers for Medicare and | ||||||
3 | Medicaid Services. The Department shall also publish
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4 | risk-adjusted mortality
rates for each hospital based upon | ||||||
5 | information hospitals have already submitted
to the
Department | ||||||
6 | pursuant to their obligations to report health care information
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7 | under other public
health reporting laws and regulations | ||||||
8 | outside of this Act. The published
mortality rates must
comply | ||||||
9 | with the hospital data publication process contained in | ||||||
10 | subsection (c)
of Section 25 of this Act.
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11 | (Source: P.A. 93-563, eff. 1-1-04.)".
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