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| | 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4995 Introduced 2/18/2020, by Rep. Charles Meier SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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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.
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| | HB4995 | | LRB101 18284 CPF 67730 b |
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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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