093_HB3497

 
                                     LRB093 11184 DRJ 12175 b

 1        AN ACT in relation to public aid.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Public Aid Code  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 5-4.1 as follows:

 6        (305 ILCS 5/5-4.1) (from Ch. 23, par. 5-4.1)
 7        Sec.  5-4.1.   Co-payments.   The  Department may by rule
 8    provide that recipients under any Article of this  Code  must
 9    shall  pay  a  fee as a co-payment for services.  Co-payments
10    may not exceed $3 for brand name drugs, $1 for other pharmacy
11    services, and $2 for physicians  services,  dental  services,
12    optical   services   and   supplies,  chiropractic  services,
13    podiatry  services,  and  encounter  rate  clinic   services.
14    Co-payments  may  not  exceed  $3 for hospital outpatient and
15    clinic services.  Provided, however, that any such rule  must
16    provide  that  no  co-payment requirement can exist for renal
17    dialysis, radiation therapy, cancer chemotherapy, or insulin,
18    and other  products  necessary  on  a  recurring  basis,  the
19    absence   of  which  would  be  life  threatening,  or  where
20    co-payment  expenditures   for   required   services   and/or
21    medications for chronic diseases that the Illinois Department
22    shall  by  rule  designate shall cause an extensive financial
23    burden on the recipient, and  provided  no  co-payment  shall
24    exist  for  emergency  room  encounters  that  which  are for
25    medical emergencies.
26    (Source: P.A. 92-597, eff. 6-28-02.)