Sen. M. Maggie Crotty
Filed: 5/13/2004
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1660
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1660 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by | ||||||
5 | adding Section
5-5.25 as follows:
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6 | (305 ILCS 5/5-5.25 new)
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7 | Sec. 5-5.25. Access to mental health services. The General | ||||||
8 | Assembly finds
that
providing access to mental health services | ||||||
9 | in a timely manner will improve the
quality of
life for persons | ||||||
10 | suffering from mental illness and will contain health care
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11 | costs by
avoiding the need for more costly inpatient | ||||||
12 | hospitalization. The Illinois
Department shall
reimburse | ||||||
13 | advanced practice nurses who have a collaborative agreement | ||||||
14 | with a collaborating physician specializing in psychiatry that | ||||||
15 | authorizes the provision of mental health services for mental | ||||||
16 | health services they provide, as
authorized
by Illinois law, to | ||||||
17 | recipients. The Illinois Department, by rule, shall develop
a | ||||||
18 | method to
reimburse providers for mental health services | ||||||
19 | provided by telemedicine. The
reimbursement methodology for | ||||||
20 | mental health services provided by telemedicine
shall be
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21 | comparable to the reimbursement methodology used by the | ||||||
22 | Illinois Department for
other
services provided by | ||||||
23 | telemedicine.
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1 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
2 | becoming law.".
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