(745 ILCS 70/11.4)
Sec. 11.4.
Denial of aid or benefits to health care payer for refusal to
participate in certain health care. It shall be unlawful for any public
official, agency, institution, or entity to deny any form of aid, assistance,
grants, or benefits; or in any other manner to coerce, disqualify, or
discriminate against any person, association, or corporation attempting to
establish a new health care payer or operating an existing health care payer
that otherwise would be entitled to the aid, assistance, grant, or benefit
because
the existing or proposed health care payer refuses to pay for, arrange for the
payment of, or participate in any way in any form of health care services
contrary to the health care payer's conscience as documented in its existing or
proposed ethical guidelines, mission statement, constitution, bylaws, articles
of incorporation, regulations, or other governing documents.
(Source: P.A. 90-246, eff. 1-1-98.)
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