(110 ILCS 330/5) (from Ch. 23, par. 1375)
Sec. 5.
The University may establish and collect charges for hospital
services rendered in the University of Illinois Hospital or in connection
with a University health care program. However, with
respect to health care professional services rendered in connection with
a University health care program at the University
of Illinois Hospital or elsewhere by the
Doctors of Medicine, the Doctors of Dentistry, or other health
care
professionals who are members of the University
faculty,
charges for such professional services shall not be established or
collected by the University or the University of Illinois Hospital but may
be by said members of said faculty who render such services under a
plan or plans organized and administered by them. All such charges shall be
deposited in a special fund or funds in the treasury of the University. The
billing, collecting and disbursing of any such fund shall remain
exclusively under the supervision and control of such faculty under a
plan or plans established by them for the general benefit and support of
University programs and activities related to the health professions, provided
no charges may be
made or collected until such plan has been approved by the University.
However, no person shall make or collect a personal or professional
charge for his own account for treating, caring for or nursing a
patient in the University of Illinois Hospital
(other than health care professional services provided at the University of
Illinois Hospital by
non-salaried
adjunct
University faculty who are licensed dentists or physicians licensed to
practice medicine in all its branches
members)
or in connection with a
University
health care program. Nothing herein shall prevent the University from approving
a plan under which any such fund in the University treasury may be utilized
in paying the University salaries of such faculty members, or from assisting
in the billing and collection of professional charges if all University
costs in connection therewith are paid from the charges so collected.
(Source: P.A. 91-206, eff. 7-20-99; 92-760, eff. 8-2-02.)
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