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91_HB4464
LRB9112516WHcs
1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Public Aid Code by changing
2 Section 5-4.1.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
6 changing Section 5-4.1 as follows:
7 (305 ILCS 5/5-4.1) (from Ch. 23, par. 5-4.1)
8 Sec. 5-4.1. Co-payments. The Department may by rule
9 provide that recipients under any Article of this Code (other
10 than group care recipients) shall pay a fee as a co-payment
11 for services. Co-payments may not exceed $1 one dollar for
12 pharmacy services, physicians services, dental services,
13 optical services and supplies, chiropractic services,
14 podiatry services, and encounter rate clinic services.
15 Co-payments may not exceed $3 three dollars for hospital
16 outpatient and clinic services. Provided, however, that any
17 such rule must provide that no co-payment requirement can
18 exist for renal dialysis, radiation therapy, cancer
19 chemotherapy, or insulin, and other products necessary on a
20 recurring basis, the absence of which would be life
21 threatening, or where co-payment expenditures for required
22 services and/or medications for chronic diseases that the
23 Illinois Department shall by rule designate shall cause an
24 extensive financial burden on the recipient, and provided no
25 co-payment shall exist for emergency room encounters which
26 are for medical emergencies.
27 (Source: P.A. 82-664.)