Bill Text: IL HB2760 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. Provides that a physician licensed in another state may oversee or direct the delivery of skilled home care services provided by home health and home nursing agencies licensed in Illinois following care or treatment originally provided to the patient in the state in which the physician is licensed to practice medicine until care is transitioned to a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches in Illinois under certain specified conditions, including: (i) contact between the patient's out-of-state physician and the patient's primary care physician in Illinois, if any; (ii) the initial transition period may not exceed 90 days from the date of the order for skilled home care services; and (iii) a copy of the license of the out-of-state physician must be retained in the patient's chart.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)

Status: (Passed) 2013-08-16 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0448 [HB2760 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB2760-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 098-0448
HB2760 Enrolled LRB098 09342 DRJ 39483 b
AN ACT concerning health facilities.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing
Agency Licensing Act is amended by adding Section 6.4 as
follows:
(210 ILCS 55/6.4 new)
Sec. 6.4. Oversight and direction of skilled home care
services. A physician licensed in another state may oversee or
direct the delivery of skilled home care services provided by
home health and home nursing agencies licensed in Illinois
following care or treatment originally provided to the patient
in the state in which the physician is licensed to practice
medicine until care is transitioned to a physician licensed to
practice medicine in all its branches in Illinois under the
following conditions:
(1) The out-of-state physician shall ask the patient
whether the patient has a primary care physician in
Illinois. If the patient has a primary care physician in
Illinois, the out-of-state physician shall contact the
primary care physician and obtain the concurrence of that
individual for ordering home health care services. The
out-of-state physician shall make a notation of that

contact in the patient's medical record.
(2) The transition period may not exceed 90 days of
skilled home care services except as provided by paragraph
(3) of this Section.
(3) The transition period may be up to 180 days of
skilled home care services for patients where home health
services are needed to care for 2 or more medical
conditions requiring intensive management by 2 or more
physicians, with documentation supporting unsuccessful
efforts in identifying an appropriate physician in
Illinois within the initial 90-day time period.
(4) Any significant change in the patient's condition
shall be communicated by the Illinois licensed agency to
the out-of-state physician and the patient's Illinois
licensed physician.
(5) A copy of the license or evidence of licensure by
another state of the out-of-state physician must be
retained in the patient's chart.