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Sen. William R. Haine
Filed: 3/15/2013
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1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1630
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2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1630 on page 3, |
3 | | immediately below line 25, by inserting: |
4 | | "(i) This Section does not prohibit a referring physician |
5 | | who takes a patient specimen from charging a patient or a payer |
6 | | an acquisition or processing charge when: |
7 | | (a) the charge is limited to actual costs incurred for |
8 | | specimen collection and transportation; and |
9 | | (b) the charge is separately coded or denoted as a |
10 | | service distinct from the performance of the anatomic |
11 | | pathology service, in conformance with the coding policies |
12 | | of the American Medical Association. |
13 | | (j) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit |
14 | | a referring physician from sending a patient's specimen to any |
15 | | laboratory providing anatomic pathology services. |
16 | | (k) This Section does not apply to facilities licensed |
17 | | under the Hospital Licensing Act or the University of Illinois |
18 | | Hospital Act or clinical laboratories owned, operated by, or |