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1 | AN ACT concerning liens.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly: | |||||||||||||||||||
4 | Section 5. The Health Care Services Lien Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 10 as follows:
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6 | (770 ILCS 23/10)
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7 | Sec. 10. Lien created; limitation.
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8 | (a) Every health care professional and health care provider | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | that renders any
service
in the treatment, care, or maintenance | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | of an injured person, except services
rendered under the | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act or the Workers'
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12 | Occupational Diseases Act, shall have a lien
upon all
claims | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | and causes of action of the injured person for the amount of | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | the health
care
professional's or health care provider's | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | reasonable charges up to the date of
payment of
damages to the | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | injured person. The total amount of all liens under this Act,
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17 | however, shall
not exceed 40% of the verdict, judgment, award, | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | settlement, or
compromise secured
by or on behalf of the | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | injured person on his or her claim or right of action.
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20 | (b) The lien must
shall include a written notice containing | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | the name and
address of
the injured person, the date of the | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | injury, the name and address of the health
care
professional or | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | health care provider, and the name of the party alleged to be
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24 | liable to
make compensation to the injured person for the | |||||||||||||||||||
25 | injuries received. The lien
notice shall
be served on both the | |||||||||||||||||||
26 | injured person and the party against whom the claim or
right of
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27 | action exists.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, | |||||||||||||||||||
28 | payment in good faith to any
person other than the healthcare | |||||||||||||||||||
29 | professional or healthcare provider claiming
or asserting such | |||||||||||||||||||
30 | lien prior to the service of such notice of lien shall, to
the | |||||||||||||||||||
31 | extent of the payment so made, bar or prevent the creation of | |||||||||||||||||||
32 | an
enforceable lien.
Service shall be made by registered or |
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1 | certified mail or in person.
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2 | (c) All health care professionals and health care providers | ||||||
3 | holding liens
under this
Act with respect to a particular | ||||||
4 | injured person shall share proportionate
amounts within
the | ||||||
5 | statutory limitation set forth in subsection (a).
The statutory | ||||||
6 | limitations under this Section may be waived or otherwise | ||||||
7 | reduced
only by the lienholder.
No individual licensed
category | ||||||
8 | of
health care professional (such as physicians) or health care | ||||||
9 | provider (such as
hospitals) as set forth in Section 5,
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10 | however, may receive more
than one-third of the verdict, | ||||||
11 | judgment, award, settlement, or compromise
secured by or
on | ||||||
12 | behalf
of the injured person on his or her claim or right of | ||||||
13 | action.
If the total amount of all liens under this Act meets | ||||||
14 | or exceeds 40% of the
verdict, judgment, award,
settlement, or | ||||||
15 | compromise, then:
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16 | (1) all the liens of health care professionals shall | ||||||
17 | not exceed 20% of
the verdict, judgment, award, settlement, | ||||||
18 | or compromise; and
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19 | (2) all the liens of health care providers shall not | ||||||
20 | exceed 20% of the
verdict, judgment, award, settlement, or | ||||||
21 | compromise;
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22 | provided, however, that health care services liens shall be | ||||||
23 | satisfied to the
extent
possible for all health care | ||||||
24 | professionals and health care providers by
reallocating the
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25 | amount
unused within the aggregate total limitation of 40% for | ||||||
26 | all health care
services liens
under
this Act; and provided | ||||||
27 | further that the amounts of liens under paragraphs (1)
and (2) | ||||||
28 | are subject to the one-third limitation under this subsection.
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29 | If the total amount of all liens under this Act meets or | ||||||
30 | exceeds 40% of the
verdict, judgment,
award, settlement, or | ||||||
31 | compromise, the total amount of all the liens of
attorneys | ||||||
32 | under the
Attorneys Lien Act shall not
exceed 30% of the | ||||||
33 | verdict, judgment, award, settlement, or compromise. If an
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34 | appeal is taken by any party to a suit based on the claim or | ||||||
35 | cause of
action, however,
the attorney's lien
shall not
be | ||||||
36 | affected or limited by the provisions of this Act.
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1 | (d) If services furnished by health care professionals and | ||||||
2 | health care
providers are
billed at one all-inclusive rate, the | ||||||
3 | total reasonable charges for those
services shall be
reasonably | ||||||
4 | allocated among the health care professionals and health care
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5 | providers and
treated as separate liens for purposes of this | ||||||
6 | Act, including the filing of
separate lien
notices. For | ||||||
7 | services provided under an all-inclusive rate, the liens of | ||||||
8 | health
care
professionals and health care providers may be | ||||||
9 | asserted by the entity that
bills the
all-inclusive rate.
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10 | (e) Payments under the liens shall be made directly to the | ||||||
11 | health care
professionals and health care providers. For | ||||||
12 | services provided under an
all-inclusive rate,
payments under | ||||||
13 | liens shall be made directly to the entity that bills the
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14 | all-inclusive rate.
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15 | (Source: P.A. 93-51, eff. 7-1-03.)
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