96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB3725


 
Introduced 2/11/2010, by Sen. Michael W. Frerichs
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		





 


        



30 ILCS 775/15




30 ILCS 775/55




30 ILCS 775/60




30 ILCS 775/35 rep.










     Amends the Excellence in Academic Medicine Act. Defines the primary
teaching hospital for the University of Illinois at Urbana as a  qualified non-Chicago medicare metropolitan statistical area academic
medical center hospital (instead of an independent academic medical center hospital). Repeals the independent academic medical center program. Makes changes concerning funding. Effective July 1, 2010.
  















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    AN ACT concerning finance.
  
 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
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    Section 5. The Excellence in Academic Medicine Act is 
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amended  by changing Sections 15, 55, and 60 as follows:
 



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    (30 ILCS 775/15)



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    Sec. 15. Definitions. As used in this Act:

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    "Academic medical center hospital" means a hospital 
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located in Illinois
which is either (i) under common ownership 
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with the college of medicine of a
college or university or (ii) 
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a free-standing hospital in which the majority of
the clinical 
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chiefs of service are department chairmen in an affiliated 
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medical
school.

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    "Academic medical center children's hospital" means a 
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children's hospital
which is separately incorporated and 
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non-integrated into the academic medical
center hospital but 
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which is the pediatric partner for an academic medical
center 
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hospital and which serves as the primary teaching hospital for

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pediatrics for its affiliated medical school; children's 
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hospitals which are
separately incorporated but integrated 
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into the academic medical center
hospital are considered part 
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of the academic medical center hospital.

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    "Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic 
 


 






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medical center
hospital" means an academic medical center 
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hospital located in the Chicago
Medicare Metropolitan 
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Statistical Area.

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    "Independent academic medical center hospital" means the 
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primary
teaching hospital for the University of Illinois at 
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Urbana.

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    "Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area 
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academic medical
center hospital" means an academic medical 
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center hospital located outside
the Chicago Medicare 
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Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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    "Qualified Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area 
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academic
medical center hospital" means any Chicago Medicare 
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Metropolitan Statistical
Area academic medical center hospital 
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that either directly or in connection
with its affiliated 
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medical school receives in excess of $8,000,000 in grants
or 
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contracts from the National Institutes of Health during the 
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calendar year
preceding the beginning of the State fiscal year; 
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except that for the purposes
of Section 25, the term also 
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includes the entity specified in subsection (e) of
that 
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Section.

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    "Qualified Non-Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical 
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Area academic
medical center hospital" means the primary

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teaching hospital for the University of Illinois at Urbana, the 
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primary teaching hospital for the University
of Illinois School 
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of Medicine at Peoria, and the primary teaching hospital for

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the University of Illinois School of Medicine at Rockford, and 
 


 






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the primary
teaching hospitals for Southern Illinois 
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University School of Medicine in
Springfield.

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    "Qualified academic medical center hospital" means (i) a 
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qualified Chicago
Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area 
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academic medical center hospital, (ii)
a qualified Non-Chicago 
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Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic medical
center 
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hospital, or (iii) an academic medical center children's 
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hospital.

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    "Qualified programs" include:


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        (i) Thoracic Transplantation: heart and lung, in 
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    particular;


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        (ii) Cancer: particularly biologic modifiers of tumor 
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    response, and
mechanisms of drug resistance in cancer 
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    therapy;


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        (iii) Shock/Burn: development of biological 
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    alternatives to skin for
grafting in burn injury, and 
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    research in mechanisms of shock and tissue
injury in severe 
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    injury;


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        (iv) Abdominal transplantation: kidney, liver, 
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    pancreas, and development
of islet cell and small bowel 
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    transplantation technologies;


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        (v) Minimally invasive surgery: particularly 
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    laparoscopic surgery;


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        (vi) High performance medical computing: telemedicine 
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    and teleradiology;


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        (vii) Transmyocardial laser revascularization: a laser 
 


 






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    creates holes in
heart muscles to allow new blood flow;


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        (viii) Pet scanning: viewing how organs function (CT 
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    and MRI only allow
viewing of the structure of an organ);


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        (ix) Strokes in the African-American community: 
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    particularly risk factors
for cerebral vascular accident 
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    (strokes) in the African-American community at
much higher 
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    risk than the general population;


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        (x) Neurosurgery: particularly focusing on 
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    interventional neuroradiology;


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        (xi) Comprehensive eye center: including further 
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    development in pediatric
eye trauma;


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        (xii) Cancers: particularly melanoma, head and neck;


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        (xiii) Pediatric cancer;


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        (xiv) Invasive pediatric cardiology;


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        (xv) Pediatric organ transplantation: transplantation 
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    of solid organs,
marrow, and other stem cells; and


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        (xvi) Such other programs as may be identified.

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(Source: P.A. 92-10, eff. 6-11-01.)

 



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    (30 ILCS 775/55)



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    Sec. 55. Payment of funds. The Comptroller shall pay funds 
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appropriated
to the Post-Tertiary
Clinical Services Fund and 
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the Medical Research and Development Fund to the
appropriate 
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qualified academic medical center hospitals as the funds are

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appropriated by the General Assembly and come due under this 
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Act.  The payment
of all funds under this Act by the State shall 
 


 






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be made directly to the academic
medical center hospital due 
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the funds, except any funds due to any institution
of the 
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University of Illinois as defined in Section 15 shall be paid 
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to the
University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center, which 
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shall be bound to
expend the funds on the institution due the 
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funds.

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(Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.)

 



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    (30 ILCS 775/60)



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    Sec. 60. Restriction on funds. No academic medical center 
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hospital shall
be eligible for payments from the Medical 
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Research and Development Fund unless
the academic medical 
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center hospital qualifies under Section 15 as a qualified

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Chicago Medicare Metropolitan Statistical Area academic 
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medical center hospital
which in connection with its affiliated 
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medical school received at least
$8,000,000 in the preceding 
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calendar year in grants or contracts from the
National 
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Institutes of Health; except that this restriction does not 
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apply
to the entity specified in subsection (e) of Section 25.

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    If a hospital is eligible for funds from the Independent 
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Academic Medical
Center Fund, that hospital shall not receive 
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funds from the Medical Research
and Development Fund or the 
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Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund.  If a
hospital receives 
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funds from the Medical Research and Development Fund or the

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Post-Tertiary Clinical Services Fund, that hospital is 
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ineligible to receive
funds from the Independent Academic 
 


 






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Medical Center Fund.

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(Source: P.A. 92-10, eff. 6-11-01.)

 

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    (30 ILCS 775/35 rep.)

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    Section 10. The Excellence in Academic Medicine Act is 
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amended  by repealing Section 35.
 
 
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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 
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2010.