Bill Text: IL HB5313 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Creates the Telehealth Act. Provides that telehealth services consist of (1) the provision of services and the mode of delivering health care services, including, but not limited to, primary care, counseling, psychiatry, emergency care, and specialty care and public health services via information and communication technologies, including, but not limited to, remote patient monitoring, to facilitate the examination, assessment, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management, and self-management of a patient's health care while the patient is at the originating site and the health care provider is at a distant site and (2) as it relates to the delivery of health care, mental health care, or substance use disorder treatment, the use of interactive audio, video, or other telecommunications or electronic technology by a health care provider to deliver a health care service within the scope of practice of the health care provider from the distant site to the originating site at which the patient is located. Sets forth the requirements for the delivery of telehealth services and telepsychiatry services. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code, the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the School Code, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, the Limited Health Service Organization Act, and the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act to provide that health care plans and policies must provide coverage for telehealth services, including primary care, counseling, psychiatry, emergency care, and specialty care as set forth in the Illinois Insurance Code and as otherwise set forth in the Telehealth Act. Sets forth requirements concerning the coverage of telehealth services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB5313 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB5313-Amended.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5313
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5313 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 1 as follows:
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| 6 | (215 ILCS 5/1) (from Ch. 73, par. 613)
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| 7 | Sec. 1. Short
title. This Act shall be known and
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| 8 | cited as the Illinois Insurance Code. | ||||||
| 9 | (Source: P.A. 96-328, eff. 8-11-09.)".
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