Bill Text: IL HB4698 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: Amends the Medical Patient Rights Act. Provides that every medical office, health care clinic, group practice, or other organizational structure for a licensed professional to provide health care services shall: (1) provide a notice stating that the patient may be billed for multiple services, including a separate office visit charge or billing for diagnostic testing or follow up, if acute complaints or chronic problems that require additional evaluation are discussed during a preventive or wellness visit and (2) make, except in an emergency treatment situation, a good faith effort to obtain written acknowledgment of receipt of the notice. Specifies that these requirements do not apply to health care providers.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: (Enrolled) 2026-06-18 - Sent to the Governor [HB4698 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2025-HB4698-Enrolled.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation. | ||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly: | ||||||
| 4 | Section 5. The Medical Patient Rights Act is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | adding Section 10 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (410 ILCS 50/10 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 10. Notice of separate service. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) Every medical office, health care clinic, group | ||||||
| 9 | practice, or other organizational structure for a licensed | ||||||
| 10 | professional to provide health care services shall: | ||||||
| 11 | (1) provide, either by physical or electronic means, | ||||||
| 12 | notice stating in substantially similar form: "During a | ||||||
| 13 | preventive or wellness visit, if acute complaints or | ||||||
| 14 | chronic problems which require additional evaluation are | ||||||
| 15 | discussed, you may be billed for multiple services, | ||||||
| 16 | including a separate office visit charge, billing for | ||||||
| 17 | diagnostic testing or follow-up, or both. This separate | ||||||
| 18 | billing is in line with standard billing guidelines. If | ||||||
| 19 | you have any questions about your bill or this notice, | ||||||
| 20 | please contact (insert contact information, including a | ||||||
| 21 | phone number, for health care clinic billing | ||||||
| 22 | department)."; and | ||||||
| 23 | (2) make, except in an emergency treatment situation, | ||||||
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| 1 | a good faith effort to obtain written acknowledgment of | ||||||
| 2 | receipt of the notice described in paragraph (1). | ||||||
| 3 | (b) This Section does not apply to health care providers. | ||||||
