Reminder: Hospital Financial Assistance Data Reporting Requirements
In 2013, regulations under the Fair Patient Billing Act were published in the Illinois Register outlining information that hospitals must annually report to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) related to hospital financial assistance. These reporting requirements are described at 77 Ill. Adm Code 4500.60. These requirements apply to all hospitals licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act or the University of Illinois Hospital Act.
Specifically, hospitals must annually submit the following to the OAG:
- A copy of the Hospital Financial Assistance Application;
- A copy of the hospital’s Presumptive Eligibility Policy identifying criteria used by the hospital to determine whether a patient is presumptively eligible for hospital financial assistance; and
- Hospital financial assistance statistics.
To assist hospitals in reporting required financial assistance statistics, the OAG developed a Hospital Financial Assistance Report form. This form is to be completed and submitted to the OAG every year as part of the filing of either a hospital’s Community Benefits Report as required by the Community Benefits Act or its Worksheet C Part 1 as required by the Hospital Uninsured Patient Discount Act.
Hospitals submitting this form as part of their Community Benefits Report should send all required materials to:
Charitable Trusts Bureau
Office of the Illinois Attorney General
100 West Randolph Street, 11th Floor
Chicago, IL 60601
Hospitals filing this form with the filing of a Worksheet C Part 1 should send all required materials to:
Healthcare Bureau
Office of the Illinois Attorney General
100 West Randolph Street, 10th Floor
Chicago, IL 60601
Please send questions here.