Bill Text: IL HB1191 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, Counties Code, Illinois Municipal Code, School Code, Illinois Insurance Code, Health Maintenance Organization Act, and Voluntary Health Services Plans Act. Sets forth definitions for "qualified individual" and "life-threatening condition". Sets forth provisions concerning coverage for routine patient care with regard to denial, limits, additional conditions, and discrimination concerning approved clinical trials according to the trial protocol with respect to the treatment of cancer or other life-threatening diseases or conditions. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code in the provision concerning medical services to provide that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall ensure that cancer patients in need of dental treatment prior to the administration of chemotherapy have access to such dental services and shall develop a mechanism whereby mammography providers may download a standing order via the Internet for screening mammography for certain women eligible for mammography coverage. Amends the Radiation Protection Act of 1990 in the provision concerning limitations on application of radiation to human beings and requirements for radiation installation operators providing mammography services. Provides that each facility that performs mammograms shall upon request by or on behalf of the patient transfer the original mammograms and copies of the reports without charge to the patient. Makes other changes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-07-11 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0091 [HB1191 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB1191-Chaptered.html
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Public Act 097-0091 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning insurance.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||
represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by | ||||
changing Sections 356z.16 and 364.01 as follows:
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(215 ILCS 5/356z.16) | ||||
Sec. 356z.16. Applicability of mandated benefits to | ||||
supplemental policies. Unless specified otherwise, the | ||||
following Sections of the Illinois Insurance Code do not apply | ||||
to short-term travel, disability income, long-term care, | ||||
accident only, or limited or specified disease policies: 356b, | ||||
356c, 356d, 356g, 356k, 356m, 356n, 356p, 356q, 356r, 356t, | ||||
356u, 356w, 356x, 356z.1, 356z.2, 356z.4, 356z.5, 356z.6, | ||||
356z.8, 356z.12, 364.01, 367.2-5, and 367e.
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(Source: P.A. 96-180, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10; | ||||
96-1034, eff. 1-1-11.)
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(215 ILCS 5/364.01) | ||||
Sec. 364.01. Qualified clinical cancer trials. | ||||
(a) No individual or group policy of accident and health | ||||
insurance issued or renewed in this State may be cancelled or | ||||
non-renewed for any individual based on that individual's | ||||
participation in a qualified clinical cancer trial. |
(b) Qualified clinical cancer trials must meet the | ||
following criteria: | ||
(1) the effectiveness of the treatment has not been | ||
determined relative to established therapies; | ||
(2) the trial is under clinical investigation as part | ||
of an approved cancer research trial in Phase II, Phase | ||
III, or Phase IV of investigation; | ||
(3) the trial is: | ||
(A) approved by the Food and Drug Administration; | ||
or | ||
(B) approved and funded by the National Institutes | ||
of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and | ||
Prevention, the Agency for Healthcare Research and | ||
Quality, the United States Department of Defense, the | ||
United States Department of Veterans Affairs, or the | ||
United States Department of Energy in the form of an | ||
investigational new drug application, or a cooperative | ||
group or center of any entity described in this | ||
subdivision (B); and
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(4) the patient's primary care physician, if any, is | ||
involved in the coordination of care.
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(c) No group policy of accident and health insurance shall | ||
exclude coverage for any routine patient care administered to | ||
an insured who is a qualified individual participating in a | ||
qualified clinical cancer trial, if the policy covers that same | ||
routine patient care of insureds not enrolled in a qualified |
clinical cancer trial. | ||
(d) The coverage that may not be excluded under subsection | ||
(c) of this Section is subject to all terms, conditions, | ||
restrictions, exclusions, and limitations that apply to the | ||
same routine patient care received by an insured not enrolled | ||
in a qualified clinical cancer trial, including the application | ||
of any authorization requirement, utilization review, or | ||
medical management practices. The insured or enrollee shall | ||
incur no greater out-of-pocket liability than had the insured | ||
or enrollee not enrolled in a qualified clinical cancer trial. | ||
(e) If the group policy of accident and health insurance | ||
uses a preferred provider program and a preferred provider | ||
provides routine patient care in connection with a qualified | ||
clinical cancer trial, then the insurer may require the insured | ||
to use the preferred provider if the preferred provider agrees | ||
to provide to the insured that routine patient care. | ||
(f) A qualified clinical cancer trial may not pay or refuse | ||
to pay for routine patient care of an individual participating | ||
in the trial, based in whole or in part on the person's having | ||
or not having coverage for routine patient care under a group | ||
policy of accident and health insurance. | ||
(g) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to limit an | ||
insurer's coverage with respect to clinical trials. | ||
(h) Nothing in this Section shall require coverage for | ||
out-of-network services where the underlying health benefit | ||
plan does not provide coverage for out-of-network services. |
(i) As used in this Section, "routine patient care" means | ||
all health care services provided in the qualified clinical | ||
cancer trial that are otherwise generally covered under the | ||
policy if those items or services were not provided in | ||
connection with a qualified clinical cancer trial consistent | ||
with the standard of care for the treatment of cancer, | ||
including the type and frequency of any diagnostic modality, | ||
that a provider typically provides to a cancer patient who is | ||
not enrolled in a qualified clinical cancer trial. "Routine | ||
patient care" does not include, and a group policy of accident | ||
and health insurance may exclude, coverage for: | ||
(1) a health care service, item, or drug that is the | ||
subject of the cancer clinical trial; | ||
(2) a health care service, item, or drug provided | ||
solely to satisfy data collection and analysis needs for | ||
the qualified clinical cancer trial that is not used in the | ||
direct clinical management of the patient; | ||
(3) an investigational drug or device that has not been | ||
approved for market by the United States Food and Drug | ||
Administration; | ||
(4) transportation, lodging, food, or other expenses | ||
for the patient or a family member or companion of the | ||
patient that are associated with the travel to or from a | ||
facility providing the qualified clinical cancer trial, | ||
unless the policy covers these expenses for a cancer | ||
patient who is not enrolled in a qualified clinical cancer |
trial; | ||
(5) a health care service, item, or drug customarily | ||
provided by the qualified clinical cancer trial sponsors | ||
free of charge for any patient; | ||
(6) a health care service or item, which except for the | ||
fact that it is being provided in a qualified clinical | ||
cancer trial, is otherwise specifically excluded from | ||
coverage under the insured's policy, including: | ||
(A) costs of extra treatments, services, | ||
procedures, tests, or drugs that would not be performed | ||
or administered except for the fact that the insured is | ||
participating in the cancer clinical trial; and | ||
(B) costs of nonhealth care services that the | ||
patient is required to receive as a result of | ||
participation in the approved cancer clinical trial; | ||
(7) costs for services, items, or drugs that are | ||
eligible for reimbursement from a source other than a | ||
patient's contract or policy providing for third-party | ||
payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses, | ||
including the sponsor of the approved cancer clinical | ||
trial; or | ||
(8) costs associated with approved cancer clinical | ||
trials designed exclusively to test toxicity or disease | ||
pathophysiology, unless the policy covers these expenses | ||
for a cancer patient who is not enrolled in a qualified | ||
clinical cancer trial; or |
(9) a health care service or item that is eligible for | ||
reimbursement by a source other than the insured's policy, | ||
including the sponsor of the qualified clinical cancer | ||
trial. | ||
The definitions of the terms "health care services", | ||
"Non-Preferred Provider", "Preferred Provider", and "Preferred | ||
Provider Program", stated in 50 IL Adm. Code Part 2051 | ||
Preferred Provider Programs apply to these terms in this | ||
Section. | ||
(j) The external review procedures established under the | ||
Health Carrier External Review Act shall apply to the | ||
provisions under this Section. | ||
(Source: P.A. 93-1000, eff. 1-1-05.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | ||
1, 2012.
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