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Rep. Ron Stephens
Filed: 3/31/2004
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LRB093 15106 SAS 48115 a |
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 6299
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 6299 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by |
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| adding Section 356z.6 as follows:
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| (215 ILCS 5/356z.6 new) |
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| Sec. 356z.6. Vision therapy. |
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| (a) An individual or group policy of accident and health |
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| insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or |
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| renewed in this State after the effective date of this |
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| amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, must include |
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| coverage for vision therapy, therapeutic lenses, prisms, |
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| filters, occlusions, and specialized equipment used in the |
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| vision therapy treatment process. |
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| (b) For the purposes of this Section, "vision therapy" |
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| means a treatment process used to improve vision function. |
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| Vision therapy includes a broad range of developmental and |
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| rehabilitative treatment programs individually prescribed to |
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| remediate specific sensory, motor, or visual perception |
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| dysfunctions.
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| Section 10. The Health Maintenance Organization Act is |
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| amended by changing Section 4-6.5 as follows:
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LRB093 15106 SAS 48115 a |
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| (215 ILCS 125/4-6.5)
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| Sec. 4-6.5. Required health benefits; Illinois Insurance |
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| Code
requirements. A health maintenance organization is |
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| subject to the provisions
of Sections 155.37, 356t, 356u, and
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| 356z.1, and 356z.6 of the Illinois Insurance Code.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-130, eff. 7-20-01; 92-440, eff. 8-17-01; |
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| 92-651, eff.
7-11-02.)
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| Section 15. The Voluntary Health Services Plans Act is |
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| amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
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| (215 ILCS 165/10) (from Ch. 32, par. 604)
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| Sec. 10. Application of Insurance Code provisions. Health |
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| services
plan corporations and all persons interested therein |
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| or dealing therewith
shall be subject to the provisions of |
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| Articles IIA and XII 1/2 and Sections
3.1, 133, 140, 143, 143c, |
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| 149, 155.37, 354, 355.2, 356r, 356t, 356u, 356v,
356w, 356x, |
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| 356y, 356z.1, 356z.2, 356z.4, 356z.5, 356z.6, 367.2, 368a, 401, |
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| 401.1,
402,
403, 403A, 408,
408.2, and 412, and paragraphs (7) |
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| and (15) of Section 367 of the Illinois
Insurance Code.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-130, eff. 7-20-01; 92-440, eff. 8-17-01;
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| 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 92-764, eff. 1-1-03; 93-102, eff. 1-1-04; |
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| 93-529, eff.
8-14-03; revised 9-25-03.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.".
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