(a) All steps necessary under State and Federal law to protect confidentiality of applicants and covered persons shall be undertaken by the Board to prevent the identification of individual records of persons covered under the Plan, rejected by the Plan, or who become ineligible for further participation in the Plan. Procedures shall be written by the Board to assure the confidentiality of records of persons covered under, rejected by, or who become ineligible for further participation in, the Plan when gathering and submitting data to the Board or any other entity.
     (b) The information submitted to the Board by hospitals pursuant to this Act shall be privileged and confidential, and shall not be disclosed in any manner. The foregoing includes, but shall not be limited to, disclosure, inspection or copying under the Freedom of Information Act, the State Records Act, and paragraph (1) of § 404 of the Illinois Insurance Code. However, the prohibitions stated in this subsection shall not apply to the compilations of information assembled by the Board pursuant to subsections c. and e. of Section 3 of this Act.

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 105/14

  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.36
  • State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14
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