Bill Text: IL SB2587 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Enrolled
NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft
Bill Title: Amends the Telehealth Act. Provides that "health care professionals" includes dentists.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Passed) 2018-08-17 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0930 [SB2587 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB2587-Enrolled.html
Bill Title: Amends the Telehealth Act. Provides that "health care professionals" includes dentists.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Passed) 2018-08-17 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0930 [SB2587 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB2587-Enrolled.html
| |||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
| ||||||
2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| ||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
| ||||||
4 | Section 5. The Telehealth Act is amended by changing | ||||||
5 | Section 5 as follows:
| ||||||
6 | (225 ILCS 150/5)
| ||||||
7 | Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: | ||||||
8 | "Health care professional" includes physicians, physician | ||||||
9 | assistants, dentists, optometrists, advanced practice nurses, | ||||||
10 | clinical psychologists licensed in Illinois, and mental health | ||||||
11 | professionals and clinicians authorized by Illinois law to | ||||||
12 | provide mental health services.
| ||||||
13 | "Telehealth" means the evaluation, diagnosis, or | ||||||
14 | interpretation of electronically transmitted patient-specific | ||||||
15 | data between a remote location and a licensed health care | ||||||
16 | professional that generates interaction or treatment | ||||||
17 | recommendations. "Telehealth" includes telemedicine and the | ||||||
18 | delivery of health care services provided by way of an | ||||||
19 | interactive telecommunications system, as defined in | ||||||
20 | subsection (a) of Section 356z.22 of the Illinois Insurance | ||||||
21 | Code.
| ||||||
22 | (Source: P.A. 100-317, eff. 1-1-18 .)
|