Bill Text: IL SB0653 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a health care plan requiring a health care provider to use a time-based Current Procedural Terminology code to bill for health care services shall not apply a time measurement standard that results in fewer units billed than allowed by the Current Procedural Terminology code book, except as required by federal law for federally funded patients. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-2)

Status: (Passed) 2019-07-22 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0119 [SB0653 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB0653-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 101-0119
SB0653 Enrolled LRB101 04246 JRG 49254 b
AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by adding
Section 368g as follows:
(215 ILCS 5/368g new)
Sec. 368g. Time-based billing.
(a) As used in this Section, "CPT code" means the medical
billing code set contained in the most recent version of the
Current Procedural Terminology code book published by the
American Medical Association.
(b) A health care plan requiring a health care provider to
use a time-based CPT code to bill for health care services
shall not apply a time measurement standard that results in
fewer units billed than allowed by the CPT code book, except as
required by federal law for federally-funded patients.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.