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 1        AN  ACT  concerning  the  Health  Care  Cost  Containment
 2    Council.

 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section 5.  The Illinois Health  Finance  Reform  Act  is
 6    amended by changing Sections 1-2, 2-1, and 2-5 as follows:

 7        (20 ILCS 2215/1-2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 6501-2)
 8        Sec.  1-2.   Purpose.   The  General  Assembly  finds and
 9    declares that stabilizing the cost of  hospitalization  is  a
10    vital  concern  to  the  people  of  this  State.   It is the
11    legislative intent, pursuant to this declared public concern,
12    to develop measures which will increase hospital productivity
13    and better control utilization, while continuing  to  provide
14    quality health care services to all sectors of the citizenry,
15    education  and  training  of  health  care professionals, and
16    research and  development  of  improved  and  cost  effective
17    methods of treatment of ailments and management of facilities
18    and operations.  These ends shall be accomplished through the
19    establishment  of  the  Illinois Health Care Cost Containment
20    Council within the Department  of  Public  Health  to  study,
21    recommend  and  implement  measures  to contain health costs.
22    Furthermore, it is the intent  of  the  General  Assembly  to
23    encourage  new  and  innovative  methods  of financing health
24    care.
25        The overall goal of this  legislation  is  to  limit  the
26    increase  in  the  cost  of hospital care to no more than the
27    rate of increase in  prices  in  the  general  economy.   The
28    General  Assembly  finds and declares that this result may be
29    achieved through the introduction of competitive forces  into
30    the  organization,  delivery  and  financing  of  health care
31    services.
 
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 1    (Source: P.A. 83-1243.)

 2        (20 ILCS 2215/2-1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 6502-1)
 3        Sec. 2-1.  Council Authorized.  There is  hereby  created
 4    within  the  Department  of Public Health the Illinois Health
 5    Care Cost  Containment  Council.   It  shall  consist  of  13
 6    members  appointed  by the Director of Public Health Governor
 7    with the advice and consent  of  the  Senate  as  follows:  5
 8    members  to  represent  providers  as  follows:  2 members to
 9    represent Illinois hospitals  at  least  one  of  which  must
10    represent  a  small  rural  hospital,  2 members to represent
11    physicians licensed to practice medicine in all its branches,
12    and 1  member  to  represent  ambulatory  surgical  treatment
13    centers;  3  members  to  represent  consumers;  2 members to
14    represent insurance companies; and  3  members  to  represent
15    businesses.
16        The  members of the Council shall be appointed for 3-year
17    terms, except that  the  terms  of  members  serving  on  the
18    effective  date  of  this  amendatory Act of the 92nd General
19    Assembly  shall  conclude  upon  the  appointment  of   their
20    successors by the Director of Public Health.
21        No  more  than  7  members may be from the same political
22    party.
23        Members shall be  appointed  within  30  days  after  the
24    effective date of this Act.  The additional members appointed
25    under the amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly must be
26    appointed  within  30  days  after the effective date of this
27    amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly.  The members  of
28    the  Council  shall  receive  reimbursement  of  their actual
29    expenses  incurred  in  connection  with  their  service;  in
30    addition, each member shall receive compensation  of  $150  a
31    day for each day served at regular or special meetings of the
32    Council,  except  that  such  compensation  shall  not exceed
33    $20,000 in any one year for any member.   The  Council  shall
 
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 1    elect  a  Chairman from among its members, and shall have the
 2    power to organize and appoint such other officers as  it  may
 3    deem necessary.
 4        All  appointments shall be made in writing and filed with
 5    the Secretary of State as a public record.
 6    (Source: P.A. 91-756, eff. 6-2-00.)

 7        (20 ILCS 2215/2-5) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 6502-5)
 8        Sec.  2-5.   Employees,  Professional  Consultants,   and
 9    Funding.   The  Director  of Public Health Council may employ
10    and fix the compensation of such  employees,  and  may  enter
11    into  contractual  agreements with technical and professional
12    consultants as the Director it deems  necessary  to  expedite
13    the purpose of this Act.
14    (Source: P.A. 83-1243.)

15        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
16    becoming law.

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