Illinois Compiled Statutes
215 ILCS 165/7 (2026)
Every physician licensed in Illinois to practice medicine in all of its branches, every podiatric physician licensed to practice podiatric medicine in Illinois, and every dentist and dental surgeon licensed to practice in Illinois may be eligible to render medical, podiatric or dental services respectively, upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually acceptable to such physician, podiatric physician, dentist or dental surgeon and to the health services plan corporation involved
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(215 ILCS 165/7)
(from Ch. 32, par. 601)
Sec. 7.
Every physician licensed in Illinois to practice medicine in
all of its branches, every podiatric physician licensed to practice podiatric medicine
in Illinois, and every dentist and dental surgeon licensed to
practice in Illinois may be eligible to render medical, podiatric or dental
services respectively, upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually
acceptable to such physician, podiatric physician, dentist or dental surgeon and to the
health services plan corporation involved. Such a corporation shall
impose no restrictions on the physicians, podiatric physicians, dentists or dental surgeons
who treat its subscribers as to methods of diagnosis or treatment. The
private physician-patient relationship shall be maintained, and
subscribers shall at all times have free choice of any physician, podiatric physician, dentist or dental surgeon who is rendering service on behalf of the
corporation. All of the records, charts, files and other data of a
health services plan corporation pertaining to the condition of health
of its subscribers and beneficiaries shall be and remain confidential,
and no disclosure of the contents thereof shall be made by the
corporation to any person, except upon the prior written authorization
of the particular subscriber or beneficiary concerned.
(Source: P.A. 98-214, eff. 8-9-13.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1996–1996 · leading case: Berlin v. Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Ctr., 664 N.E.2d 337 (Ill. App. Ct. 1996).
Berlin v. Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Ctr., 664 N.E.2d 337 (Ill. App. Ct. 1996). “215 ILCS 165/7 (West 1994). Additionally, the Plans Act mandates that "specimen" employment agreements must be submitted to the Director of the Department of Insurance (Director) before a corporate charter can be approved (215 ILCS 165/8 (West 1994)).”
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