Illinois Senate Bill 27 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-3)
Status: Failed on January 13 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions concerning coverage for telehealth services, provides that certain health benefit policies or plans may not exclude from coverage a medically necessary health care service or procedure delivered by certain providers solely because the health care service or procedure is provided through telehealth (rather than requiring certain policies to meet specified criteria if they provide coverage for telehealth services). Provides the requirements of coverage for telehealth services. Provides that an individual or group policy of accident or health insurance that provides coverage for telehealth services delivered by contracted licensed dietitian nutritionists and contracted certified diabetes educators must also provide coverage for in-home services for senior diabetes patients (rather than requiring an individual or group policy of accident or health insurance that provides coverage for telehealth services to provide coverage for licensed dietitian nutritionists and certified diabetes educators who counsel senior diabetes patients in the patients' homes). Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides payment, reimbursement, and service requirements for telehealth services provided under the State's fee-for-service or managed care medical assistance programs. Provides that "telehealth" includes telepsychiatry. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall implement the new provisions 60 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Repeals a provision requiring the Department to reimburse psychiatrists and federally qualified health centers for mental health services provided by psychiatrists to medical assistance recipients through telepsychiatry. Makes other changes.

INS CODE/PUBLIC AID-TELEHEALTH

Sen. Andy Manar [D]	Sen. Dave Syverson [R]	Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant [D]	Sen. Terry Link [D]
Sen. Jacqueline Collins [D]	Sen. Dale Fowler [R]	Sen. Rachelle Crowe [D]	Sen. Antonio Munoz [D]
Sen. Paul Schimpf [R]	Sen. Elgie Sims [D]	Sen. Emil Jones [D]	Sen. William Cunningham [D]
Sen. Cristina Castro [D]	Sen. Steven Landek [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-13	Senate	Session Sine Die
2019-04-04	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Steven M. Landek
2019-04-03	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Cristina Castro
2019-04-03	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Bill Cunningham
2019-04-03	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III
2019-03-28	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2019-03-25	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr.
2019-03-22	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As March 28, 2019
2019-03-20	Senate	Postponed - Insurance
2019-02-15	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
2019-02-07	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Paul Schimpf
2019-02-05	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Antonio Muñoz
2019-02-05	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Terry Link
2019-02-01	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachelle Crowe
2019-01-31	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant
2019-01-30	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Dave Syverson
2019-01-29	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Dale Fowler
2019-01-23	Senate	Assigned to Insurance
2019-01-10	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2019-01-10	Senate	First Reading
2019-01-10	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Andy Manar

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
215	5	356z.22	Amended Code	Citation Text
305	5	5-5.25	Repealed Code	Citation Text
305	5	5-5.25a	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=27&GAID=15&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/SB/10100SB0027.htm