Bill Text: IL HB5238 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that every physician employed by a hospital or hospital affiliate shall have specified rights relating to matters including compensation, academic freedom, medical records, evaluation of clinical activity, performance of activities outside of defined employed time, conflict of interest disclosures, resource management, and patient advocacy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5238 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB5238-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB5238 Introduced , by Rep. Robert W. Pritchard SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 85/10.8a new
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that every physician employed by a hospital or hospital affiliate shall have specified rights relating to matters including compensation, academic freedom, medical records, evaluation of clinical activity, performance of activities outside of defined employed time, conflict of interest disclosures, resource management, and patient advocacy.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning physician rights.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Hospital Licensing Act is amended by adding
Section 10.8a as follows:
(210 ILCS 85/10.8a new)
Sec. 10.8a. Employed Physician's Bill of Rights.
(a) This Section may be referred to as the Employed
Physician's Bill of Rights.
(b) Every physician employed by a hospital or hospital
affiliate shall have the right:
(1) to compensation based on the totality of the
physician's activities for the hospital or hospital
affiliate employing the physician, including, but not
limited to, educational endeavors and preparation,
committee participation, student and resident activities,
and administrative responsibilities;
(2) to academic freedom, without censorship in
clinical research or academic pursuits;
(3) to not be solely responsible for data entry,
coding, and management of the use of electronic medical
record systems;
(4) to evaluation of clinical activity through the peer

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review process and to be judged only by clinicians and not
corporate executives;
(5) to perform activities outside of defined employed
time boundaries solely at the prerogative of the individual
physician and not the hospital or hospital affiliate
employing the physician, unless the activities directly
conflict with or increase risk for the hospital or hospital
affiliate;
(6) to have conflict of interest disclosures limited to
the physician's activities that directly affect the
hospital or hospital affiliate employing the physician and
the disclosures should only be made to entities that
directly reimburse the physician during his or her period
of employment;
(7) to have resources appropriately allocated by the
hospital or hospital affiliate employing the physician for
continuing medical education as defined by State licensure
guidelines; and
(8) to be legally empowered to be a patient advocate
and to be allowed to adhere to the spirit of the
Hippocratic Oath allowing patient privacy,
confidentiality, and continuity of a patient's health care
and dignity.