755 ILCS 45/4-5

(755 ILCS 45/4-5) (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 804-5) Sec. 4-5. Limitations on health care agencies. Neither the attending physician nor any other health care provider or health care professional may act as agent under a health care agency; however, a person who is not administering health care to the patient may act as health care agent for the patient even though the person is a physician or otherwise licensed, certified, authorized, or permitted by law to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or the practice of a profession. (Source: P.A. 98-1113, eff. 1-1-15.)