Health Care Availability and Access Committee
Filed: 3/11/2008
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4602
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4602, on page 4, by | ||||||
3 | replacing lines 2 through 8 with the following: | ||||||
4 | "(215 ILCS 5/356z.11 new) | ||||||
5 | Sec. 356z.11. Shingles vaccine. A group or individual | ||||||
6 | policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan | ||||||
7 | amended, delivered, issued, or renewed after the effective date | ||||||
8 | of the amendatory Act of this 95th General Assembly must | ||||||
9 | provide coverage for a vaccine for shingles that is approved | ||||||
10 | for marketing by the federal Food and Drug Administration if | ||||||
11 | the vaccine is ordered by a physician licensed to practice | ||||||
12 | medicine in all its branches and the enrollee is 60 years of | ||||||
13 | age or older. ".
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