99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB3845

 

Introduced , by Rep. Elgie R. Sims, Jr.

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
735 ILCS 5/8-2006

    Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of the Part of the Code concerning copying fees for medical records, a health care facility or health care practitioner shall not charge more than $20 for the expense of reproducing a patient's records if those records are requested in connection with a claim or appeal under any provision of the federal Social Security Act. Provides that 5 years after the effective date of the amendatory Act: (i) the new provisions limiting certain fees to $20 become inoperative; and (ii) a health care facility or health care practitioner shall not charge any fee to reproduce a patient's records if those records are requested in support of an application for benefits under the Titles of the federal Social Security Act concerning federal old-age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income for the aged, blind, and disabled.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
5changing Section 8-2006 as follows:
 
6    (735 ILCS 5/8-2006)
7    Sec. 8-2006. Copying fees; adjustment for inflation.
8    (a) Beginning in 2003, every January 20, the copying fee
9limits established in Sections 8-2001 and 8-2005 shall
10automatically be increased or decreased, as applicable, by a
11percentage equal to the percentage change in the consumer price
12index-u during the preceding 12-month calendar year. "Consumer
13price index-u" means the index published by the Bureau of Labor
14Statistics of the United States Department of Labor that
15measures the average change in prices of goods and services
16purchased by all urban consumers, United States city average,
17all items, 1982-84 = 100. The new amount resulting from each
18annual adjustment shall be determined by the Comptroller and
19made available to the public via the Comptroller's official
20website by January 31 of every year.
21    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Part, a
22health care facility or health care practitioner shall not
23charge more than $20 for the expense of reproducing a patient's

 

 

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1records if those records are requested in connection with a
2claim or appeal under any provision of the federal Social
3Security Act.
4    (c) On and after the date five years after the effective
5date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly:
6        (1) subsection (b) of this Section becomes
7    inoperative; and
8        (2) notwithstanding any other provision of this Part, a
9    health care facility or health care practitioner shall not
10    charge any fee to reproduce a patient's records if those
11    records are requested in support of an application for
12    benefits under Title II or XVI of the federal Social
13    Security Act.
14(Source: P.A. 94-982, eff. 6-30-06; 95-478, eff. 1-1-08
15(changed from 8-27-07 by P.A. 95-480).)