Illinois Healthcare Intel

The Illinois Department of Public Health maintains the Hospital Licensing Act, administrative code requirements, and standardized forms—including occupancy matrices and project submission documents—for hospital construction and licensure compliance.

The Illinois Public Health Community Map provides access to hospital discharge data, quality and safety metrics, nurse staffing levels, patient satisfaction scores, and service costs across the state.

The Illinois Hospital Report Card and Illinois Public Health Community Map now provide transparent documentation of the data sources used to power their healthcare quality and community health assessments.

The Health Facilities and Services Review Board has released completed inventories, surveys and other data sets on its website.

The Illinois Department of Public Health has published information about measles.

A vendor is a business associate if they create, receive, maintain, or transmit PHI on behalf of the covered entity. They are NOT a business associate just because they happen to be in a building with PHI or could conceivably access it. The functional test matters, not the proximity test.

The No Surprises Act good-faith-estimate requirement applies to all licensed providers offering services to self-pay or uninsured patients — not just hospitals or large groups. The estimate must be provided within timeframes that vary by how far in advance the appointment is scheduled.

The MIPS cost performance category is calculated retrospectively by CMS using attributed Medicare claims; clinicians cannot directly affect what is attributed. The two attribution methods (TPCC and MSPB) capture different beneficiary cohorts. Practices that try to "manage" cost without understanding which patients are attributed to which clinician typically waste effort.