093_HB3473
LRB093 07008 DRJ 07158 b
1 AN ACT in relation to public aid.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
5 changing Section 5-4.1 as follows:
6 (305 ILCS 5/5-4.1) (from Ch. 23, par. 5-4.1)
7 Sec. 5-4.1. Co-payments. The Department may by rule
8 provide that recipients under any Article of this Code must
9 shall pay a fee as a co-payment for services. Co-payments
10 may not exceed $3 for brand name drugs, $1 for other pharmacy
11 services, and $2 for physicians services, dental services,
12 optical services and supplies, chiropractic services,
13 podiatry services, and encounter rate clinic services.
14 Co-payments may not exceed $3 for hospital outpatient and
15 clinic services. Provided, however, that any such rule must
16 provide that no co-payment requirement can exist for renal
17 dialysis, radiation therapy, cancer chemotherapy, or insulin,
18 and other products necessary on a recurring basis, the
19 absence of which would be life threatening, or where
20 co-payment expenditures for required services and/or
21 medications for chronic diseases that the Illinois Department
22 shall by rule designate shall cause an extensive financial
23 burden on the recipient, and provided no co-payment shall
24 exist for emergency room encounters thatwhich are for
25 medical emergencies.
26 (Source: P.A. 92-597, eff. 6-28-02.)