Illinois House Bill 1661 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 8 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Act and the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning January 1, 2012, the physician fee schedule for the Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Program and for pediatric physician specialists under the medical assistance program must increase to become competitive with those of non-governmental, third-party health insurance programs. Provides that by January 1, 2015, the payment for a pediatric specialty physician service must not be lower than Medicare reimbursement in accordance with the Medicare payment localities for Illinois. Provides that the Department shall annually increase pediatric specialty physician payments under the provisions of the Act by an amount approximately equal to one-third of the difference between the actual rates available for such purposes on January 1, 2011 and the Medicare reimbursement rates effective on January 1, 2011. Makes other changes.

INS-PEDIATRIC SPECIALIST FEE

Rep. Patricia Bellock [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-01-08	House	Session Sine Die
2011-03-17	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2011-02-22	House	Assigned to Revenue & Finance Committee
2011-02-15	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2011-02-15	House	First Reading
2011-02-15	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Patricia R. Bellock

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
215	170	52.5	New Code	See Bill Text
305	5	5-5.06	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1661&GAID=11&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=84&GA=97
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/HB/09700HB1661.htm