Bill Text: IL HB4995 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates the Urgent Care Price Transparency Act. Requires a facility that provides urgent care to post and make available the prices for the top 10 procedures or treatments that the facility regularly performs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-18 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4995 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB4995-Introduced.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 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Urgent | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Care Price Transparency Act.
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6 | Section 5. Definitions. In this Act, "urgent care" means | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | the delivery of ambulatory medical care outside of a hospital | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | emergency department on a walk-in basis without a scheduled | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | appointment.
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10 | Section 10. Posting requirements. A facility that provides | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | urgent care, whether or not the facility is owned or operated | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | by a hospital licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act or | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | organized under the University of Illinois Hospital Act, must | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | post and make available the prices for the top 10 procedures or | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | treatments that the facility regularly performs.
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