Attorney General calls on
hospitals to provide for poor patients
JANUARY 23, 2006—Community leaders and patients crowded the
lobby of a West Side community health center on Monday to
show support for
 state legislation that would increase
charity care for the uninsured and protect patient consumers
from aggressive hospital collections. Attorney General Lisa
Madigan is leading the legislative effort that would specify
the discounts nonprofit hospitals must offer to the
uninsured and require hospitals to spend eight percent of
the operating costs on charity care.
HOSPITAL FAIR BILLING & COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT Hospital
Patient Billing Rights
Low Levels of Charity Care in Illinois Tax-Exempt HospitalsHeadlines
Madigan:
Hike charity health care, Chicago Sun Times
January 23, 2006
Madigan sets
minimums on free care provided by hospitals Crains
Chicago, January 23, 2006
Madigan Wants More
Charity Care for Poor NBC5.com, January 23, 2006
Nonprofits should
Give More Free Care CBS2Chicago.com, January 23,
2006
Madigan wants
more charity care for poor Belleville.com,
January 23, 2006
For more information on the legislation:
Tax-Exempt Hospital Responsibility Act (HB5000-Scully)
Hospital Fair Billing and Collection Practices Act
(HB4999-May) |
