Illinois Compiled Statutes 410 Public Health: Article -

• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 0.01
  Short Title. This Act may be cited as the Medical Patient Rights Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 1
  The purpose of this Act is to establish certain rights for medical patients and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 2
  As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms specified in Sections 2.01 through 2.05 have the meanings ascribed to them...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 2.01
  "Patient" means any person who has received or is receiving medical care, treatment or services from an individual or institution licensed to provide medical...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 2.02
  "Health services corporation" means any corporation issuing a plan for medical or hospital services or for the payment or reimbursement of expenses arising from...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 2.03
  "Health care provider" means any public or private facility that provides, on an inpatient or outpatient basis, preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, convalescent, rehabilitation, mental health, or...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 2.04
  "Insurance company" means (1) an insurance company, fraternal benefit society, and any other insurer subject to regulation under the Illinois Insurance Code; or (2)...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 2.05
  "Experimental procedures" means a research program or an experimental procedure, as defined under the rules and regulations of the Hospital Licensing Act. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 3
  The following rights are hereby established: (a) The right of each patient to care consistent with sound nursing and medical practices, to be informed of...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 3.1
  (a) Any patient who is the subject of a research program or an experimental procedure, as defined under the rules and regulations of the...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 3.2
  (a) Every health care facility in this State shall permit visitation by any person or persons designated by a patient who is 18 years...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 3.3
  Prohibition on the markup of anatomic pathology services. (a) A physician who orders, but who does not supervise or perform, an anatomic pathology service shall...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 4
  Violations. Any physician or health care provider that violates a patient's rights as set forth in subparagraph (b) of Section 3 is guilty of...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 5
  Statement of hospital patient's rights. (a) Each patient admitted to a hospital, and the guardian or authorized representative or parent of a minor patient, shall...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 5.1
  Discrimination grievance procedures. Upon receipt of a grievance alleging unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin, the hospital must investigate the...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 5.2
  Emergency room anti-discrimination notice. Every hospital shall post a sign next to or in close proximity of its sign required by Section 489.20 (q)(1) of...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 6
  Identification badges. A health care facility that provides treatment or care to a patient in this State shall require each employee of or volunteer for...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 7
  Patient examination. Any physician, medical student, resident, advanced practice nurse, registered nurse, or physician assistant who provides treatment or care to a patient shall inform...
• Illinois Medical Patient Rights Act. - 410 ILCS 50, Section 99
  This Act takes effect on becoming a law. (Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)

Last modified: February 18, 2015