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 1        AN ACT relating to higher education institutions.

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

 4        Section 5.  The University of Illinois  Hospital  Act  is
 5    amended by changing Section 5 as follows:

 6        (110 ILCS 330/5) (from Ch. 23, par. 1375)
 7        Sec.  5. The University may establish and collect charges
 8    for hospital services rendered in the University of  Illinois
 9    Hospital  or  in  connection  with  a  University health care
10    program.  However, with respect to health  care  professional
11    services rendered in connection with a University health care
12    program  at  the University of Illinois Hospital or elsewhere
13    by the Doctors of Medicine,  the  Doctors  of  Dentistry,  or
14    other  health  care  professionals  who  are  members  of the
15    University faculty, charges for  such  professional  services
16    shall  not  be  established or collected by the University or
17    the University of  Illinois  Hospital  but  may  be  by  said
18    members of said faculty who render such services under a plan
19    or plans organized and administered by them. All such charges
20    shall be deposited in a special fund or funds in the treasury
21    of  the University. The billing, collecting and disbursing of
22    any such fund shall remain exclusively under the  supervision
23    and control of such faculty under a plan or plans established
24    by  them  for  the  general benefit and support of University
25    programs and activities related to  the  health  professions,
26    provided  no charges may be made or collected until such plan
27    has been approved by the University. However, no person shall
28    make or collect a personal or professional charge for his own
29    account for treating, caring for or nursing a patient in  the
30    University  of  Illinois  Hospital  (other than such services
31    provided  at  the  University   of   Illinois   Hospital   by
 
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 1    non-salaried  University  faculty  members)  or in connection
 2    with a University health care program. Nothing  herein  shall
 3    prevent  the University from approving a plan under which any
 4    such fund in the  University  treasury  may  be  utilized  in
 5    paying  the  University  salaries of such faculty members, or
 6    from assisting in the billing and collection of  professional
 7    charges  if  all University costs in connection therewith are
 8    paid from the charges so collected.
 9    (Source: P.A. 91-206, eff. 7-20-99.)

10        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
11    becoming law.

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