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(215 ILCS 134/65)
Sec. 65.
Emergency services prior to stabilization.
(a) A health care plan
that provides or that is required by law to provide coverage for emergency
services shall provide coverage such that payment under this coverage is not
dependent upon whether the services are performed by a plan or non-plan health
care provider and without regard to prior authorization. This coverage shall be
at the same benefit level as if the services or treatment had been rendered by
the health care plan physician licensed to practice medicine in all
its branches or health care provider.
(b) Prior authorization or approval by the plan shall not be required for
emergency services.
(c) Coverage and payment shall only be retrospectively denied under the
following circumstances:
(1) upon reasonable determination that the emergency |
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(2) upon timely determination that the emergency
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(3) upon determination that the patient receiving
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(4) upon material misrepresentation by the enrollee
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(d) When an enrollee presents to a hospital seeking emergency services,
the determination as to whether the need for those
services exists shall be made for purposes of treatment by a
physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches or, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, by other appropriately licensed
personnel under the supervision of
or in collaboration with a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its
branches.
The physician or other
appropriate personnel shall indicate in the patient's chart the results of the
emergency medical screening examination.
(e) The appropriate use of the 911 emergency telephone system or its local
equivalent shall not be discouraged or penalized by the health care plan when
an emergency medical condition exists.
This provision shall not imply that the use of 911 or its local equivalent is a
factor in determining the existence of an emergency medical condition.
(f) The medical director's or his or her designee's
determination of whether the enrollee meets the standard of an emergency
medical condition shall be based solely upon the presenting symptoms documented
in the medical record at the time care was
sought.
Only a clinical peer may make an adverse determination.
(g) Nothing in this Section shall prohibit the imposition of deductibles,
copayments, and co-insurance.
Nothing in this Section alters the prohibition on billing enrollees contained
in the Health Maintenance Organization Act.
(Source: P.A. 91-617, eff. 1-1-00.)
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