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Sen. M. Maggie Crotty
Filed: 5/13/2004
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09300HB1660sam002 |
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LRB093 09991 DRJ 51067 a |
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1660
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1660 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by |
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| adding Section
5-5.25 as follows:
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| (305 ILCS 5/5-5.25 new)
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| Sec. 5-5.25. Access to mental health services. The General |
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| Assembly finds
that
providing access to mental health services |
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| in a timely manner will improve the
quality of
life for persons |
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| suffering from mental illness and will contain health care
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| costs by
avoiding the need for more costly inpatient |
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| hospitalization. The Illinois
Department shall
reimburse |
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| advanced practice nurses who have a collaborative agreement |
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| with a collaborating physician specializing in psychiatry that |
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| authorizes the provision of mental health services for mental |
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| health services they provide, as
authorized
by Illinois law, to |
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| recipients. The Illinois Department, by rule, shall develop
a |
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| method to
reimburse providers for mental health services |
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| provided by telemedicine. The
reimbursement methodology for |
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| mental health services provided by telemedicine
shall be
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| comparable to the reimbursement methodology used by the |
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| Illinois Department for
other
services provided by |
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| telemedicine.
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