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| | 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB1522 Introduced 2/20/2015, by Sen. Michael Noland SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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| 215 ILCS 5/370b.1 new | | 225 ILCS 130/47 new | |
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that payment for services rendered by a registered surgical assistant who is neither an employee of an ambulatory surgical treatment center nor an employee of a hospital shall be paid at the appropriate non-physician modifier rate if the payor would have made payment had the same services been provided by a physician. Makes conforming changes in the Registered Surgical Assistant and Registered Surgical Technologist Title Protection Act.
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| | SB1522 | | LRB099 07781 MLM 27915 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning insurance.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by adding |
| 5 | | Section 370b.1 as follows:
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| 6 | | (215 ILCS 5/370b.1 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 370b.1. Surgical assistant payments. Payment for |
| 8 | | services rendered by a registered surgical assistant, as |
| 9 | | defined in the Registered Surgical Assistant and Registered |
| 10 | | Surgical Technologist Title Protection Act, who is neither an |
| 11 | | employee of an ambulatory surgical treatment center, as defined |
| 12 | | in the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act, nor an |
| 13 | | employee of a hospital shall be paid at the appropriate |
| 14 | | non-physician modifier rate if the payor would have made |
| 15 | | payment had the same services been provided by a physician.
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| 16 | | Section 10. The Registered Surgical Assistant and |
| 17 | | Registered Surgical
Technologist Title Protection Act is |
| 18 | | amended by adding Section 47 as follows:
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| 19 | | (225 ILCS 130/47 new) |
| 20 | | Sec. 47. Payment; surgical assistant. Payment for services |
| 21 | | rendered by a registered surgical assistant who is neither an |