Illinois House Bill 4655 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 5 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-05 - Referred to Rules Committee
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Fair Patient Billing Act. Provides that if a hospital bills a patient $50,000 or more for health care services in a period of 72 hours, the hospital shall provide with its bill copies of the electronic records used to generate all charges and shall further itemize any item and make electronic copies of the patient's charts available at the patient's request within 5 days of billing or the date of request, whichever is later. Provides that hospitals must return calls made by patients within 5 calendar days of receipt of the patient request for amounts billed in excess of $50,000.

FAIR PATIENT-INFORMATION

Rep. Deanne Mazzochi [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-05	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2020-02-05	House	First Reading
2020-02-05	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Deanne M. Mazzochi

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
210	88	20	Amended Code	Citation Text
210	88	25	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=4655&GAID=15&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/HB/10100HB4655.htm