(815 ILCS 628/10)

Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:

"Dental care provider" means a natural person or persons licensed or otherwise legally authorized to provide health care services in the State of Illinois in the field of dentistry who provides such services either alone or with others at the same location or other location affiliated with the practice in a form and within a scope permitted by such licensure or legal authorization for the provision of such services and who enters into an in-office membership care agreement.

"Direct fee" means an agreed-upon fee charged by a dental care provider as consideration for providing and being available to provide in-office membership care services described in an in-office membership care agreement.

"In-office membership care agreement" means a written contract between a dental care provider or group of providers and an individual patient, the patient's family, or the patient's representative in which the dental care provider agrees to provide in-office membership care services to the patient over a specified period of time for payment of a direct fee.

"In-office membership care services" means services that a dental care provider is licensed or otherwise legally authorized to provide, including, but not limited to, (i) dental screenings, assessments, diagnoses, and treatments for the purpose of promoting health; (ii) detection, management, and care of disease or injury; and (iii) routine preventive or diagnostic dental treatment.

"Patient" means a person who is entitled to receive in-office membership care services under an in-office membership care agreement.

(Source: P.A. 101-190, eff. 8-2-19.)