Illinois House Bill 3402

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: Introduced on February 7 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-03-21 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Illinois Physical Therapy Act. Provides that initial physical therapy evaluations without a referral or an established diagnosis may be performed by a licensed physical therapist via telehealth when the physical therapist determines that an in-person examination is not required based on the physical therapist's clinical judgment and the applicable standard of care (rather than cannot be performed via telehealth unless necessary to address a documented hardship). Provides that a physical therapist or a licensed physical therapy assistant may require the patient to undergo an in-person visit instead of providing telehealth services (rather than the use of telehealth as a primary means of delivering physical therapy must be an exception and documentation must support the clinical justification). Provides that a physical therapist providing telehealth must have the capacity to provide or be able to facilitate a referral to in-person care within the State (rather than must only have the capacity to provide in-person care). Provides that the standard of care for a patient receiving physical therapy through telehealth is equal to the standard of care for in-person care.

PHYSICAL THERAPY TELEHEALTH

Rep. Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar [D]

Rep. Michael Crawford [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-03-21	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2025-03-11	House	Assigned to Health Care Licenses Committee
2025-03-07	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael Crawford
2025-02-18	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2025-02-18	House	First Reading
2025-02-07	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
225	90	1.3	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=3402&GAID=18&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=114&GA=104
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus/FullText?LegDocId=201755&DocName=10400HB3402&DocNum=3402&DocTypeID=HB&LegID=161967&GAID=18&SessionID=114&SpecSess=&Session=