HB1825 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB102 13927 SPS 19278 b

102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1825

Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Kathleen Willis

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

225 ILCS 95/5.5

Amends the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning billing.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

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

Section 5. The Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987 is amended by changing Section 5.5 as follows:

(225 ILCS 95/5.5)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)

Sec. 5.5. Billing. A physician assistant shall not be allowed to personally bill patients or in any way charge for services. The The employer of a physician assistant may charge for services rendered by the physician assistant. All claims for services rendered by the physician assistant shall be submitted using the physician assistant's national provider identification number as the rendering provider whenever appropriate. Payment for services rendered by a physician assistant shall be made to his or her employer if the payor would have made payment had the services been provided by a physician licensed to provide medicine in all of its branches.

(Source: P.A. 100-453, eff. 8-25-17; 100-559, eff. 12-8-17.)