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Rep. Thaddeus Jones
Filed: 5/16/2019
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 653
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 653 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by |
| 5 | | adding Section 368g as follows:
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| 6 | | (215 ILCS 5/368g new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 368g. Time-based billing. |
| 8 | | (a) As used in this Section, "CPT code" means the medical |
| 9 | | billing code set contained in the most recent version of the |
| 10 | | Current Procedural Terminology code book published by the |
| 11 | | American Medical Association. |
| 12 | | (b) A health care plan requiring a health care provider to |
| 13 | | use a time-based CPT code to bill for health care services |
| 14 | | shall not apply a time measurement standard that results in |
| 15 | | fewer units billed than allowed by the CPT code book, except as |
| 16 | | required by federal law for federally-funded patients.
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