Bill Text: IL HB0694 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that neither a group health plan nor an accident and health insurer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall discriminate with respect to participation under the plan or coverage against any health care provider who is acting within the scope of that provider's license or certification under applicable State law.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0694 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB0694-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB0694 Introduced , by Rep. Robert Martwick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
215 ILCS 5/370b.2 new
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that neither a group health plan nor an accident and health insurer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall discriminate with respect to participation under the plan or coverage against any health care provider who is acting within the scope of that provider's license or certification under applicable State law.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning insurance.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by adding
Section 370b.2 as follows:
(215 ILCS 5/370b.2 new)
Sec. 370b.2. Nondiscrimination in health care. Neither a
group health plan nor an accident and health insurer offering
group or individual health insurance coverage shall
discriminate with respect to participation under the plan or
coverage against any health care provider who is acting within
the scope of that provider's license or certification under
applicable State law.