98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB2760
 
Introduced 2/21/2013, by Rep. Joe Sosnowski
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
210 ILCS 55/6.4 new

     Amends the Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. Provides that a physician licensed in another state may oversee or direct the delivery of skilled home care services provided by home health and home nursing agencies licensed in Illinois following care or treatment originally provided to the patient in the state in which the physician is licensed to practice medicine until care is transitioned to a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches in Illinois under certain specified conditions, including: (i) contact between the patient's out-of-state physician and the patient's primary care physician in Illinois, if any; (ii) the initial transition period may not exceed 90 days from the date of the order for skilled home care services; and (iii) a copy of the license of the out-of-state physician must be retained in the patient's chart.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning health facilities.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing 
5Agency Licensing Act is amended  by adding Section 6.4 as 
6follows:
 
7    (210 ILCS 55/6.4 new)
8    Sec. 6.4. Oversight and direction of skilled home care 
9services.  A physician licensed in another state may oversee or 
10direct the delivery of skilled home care services provided by 
11home health and home nursing agencies licensed in Illinois 
12following care or treatment originally provided to the patient 
13in the state in which the physician is licensed to practice 
14medicine until care is transitioned to a physician licensed to 
15practice medicine in all its branches in Illinois under the 
16following conditions:
17        (1) The out-of-state physician shall ask the patient 
18    whether the patient has a primary care physician in 
19    Illinois. If the patient has a primary care physician in 
20    Illinois, the out-of-state physician shall contact the 
21    primary care physician and obtain the concurrence of that 
22    individual for ordering home health care services. The 
23    out-of-state physician shall make a notation of that 
 
 
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1    contact in the patient's medical record.
2        (2) Without exception, the initial transition period 
3    may not exceed 90 days from the date of the order for 
4    skilled home care services. Any significant change in the 
5    patient's condition shall be communicated by the Illinois 
6    licensed agency to the out-of-state physician and the 
7    patient's Illinois-licensed physician.
8        (3) A copy of the license of the out-of-state physician 
9    must be retained in the patient's chart.