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92_HB1538

 
                                               LRB9203534DJmg

 1        AN ACT in relation to public aid.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Public Aid Code  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 5-4.1 as follows:

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

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