Bill Text: IL HB3703 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the Medical Patient Rights Act. Provides that a health care professional or health care provider shall not contact a collection agency to collect unpaid debt when a patient has a late payment or nonpayment of a medical bill for COVID-19 testing, nor shall the health care professional or health care provider report the late payment or nonpayment to a credit reporting agency. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-21 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [HB3703 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-HB3703-Engrossed.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Medical Patient Rights Act is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | adding Section 8 as follows:
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| 6 | (410 ILCS 50/8 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 8. COVID-19 testing; debt. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) In this Section, "health care professional" means a | ||||||
| 9 | physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, a | ||||||
| 10 | registered professional nurse, advanced practice registered | ||||||
| 11 | nurse, emergency medical technician, or other individual | ||||||
| 12 | appropriately licensed or registered to provide health care | ||||||
| 13 | services. | ||||||
| 14 | (b) A health care professional or health care provider | ||||||
| 15 | shall not contact a collection agency to collect unpaid debt | ||||||
| 16 | when a patient has a late payment or nonpayment of a medical | ||||||
| 17 | bill for COVID-19 testing, nor shall the health care | ||||||
| 18 | professional or health care provider report the late payment | ||||||
| 19 | or nonpayment to a credit reporting agency.
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| 20 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 21 | becoming law.
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