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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  health  care
31    professional  services provided at the University of Illinois
 
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 1    Hospital by non-salaried adjunct University faculty  who  are
 2    licensed dentists or physicians licensed to practice medicine
 3    in  all  its  branches  members)  or  in  connection  with  a
 4    University  health care program. Nothing herein shall prevent
 5    the University from approving a plan  under  which  any  such
 6    fund in the University treasury may be utilized in paying the
 7    University   salaries   of  such  faculty  members,  or  from
 8    assisting in  the  billing  and  collection  of  professional
 9    charges  if  all University costs in connection therewith are
10    paid from the charges so collected.
11    (Source: P.A. 91-206, eff. 7-20-99.)

12        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
13    becoming law.

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