103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4830

 

Introduced 2/7/2024, by Rep. Kevin John Olickal

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
215 ILCS 5/355.6 new
215 ILCS 109/47 new
215 ILCS 110/30.5 new

    Amends the Illinois Insurance Code, the Dental Care Patient Protection Act, and the Dental Service Plan Act. Provides that no insurer, dental service plan corporation, professional service corporation, insurance network leasing company, company offering a managed care dental plan, company offering a point-of-service plan, or any company that amends, delivers, issues, or renews an individual or group policy of accident and health insurance that provides dental insurance in this State may deny coverage for replacement of teeth to any insured on the basis of those teeth having been extracted or otherwise lost prior to the person becoming covered under the plan.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by
5adding Section 355.6 as follows:
 
6    (215 ILCS 5/355.6 new)
7    Sec. 355.6. Replacement of teeth. No insurer, dental
8service plan corporation, professional service corporation,
9insurance network leasing company, or any company that amends,
10delivers, issues, or renews an individual or group policy of
11accident and health insurance that provides dental insurance
12in this State may deny coverage for replacement of teeth to any
13insured on the basis of those teeth having been extracted or
14otherwise lost prior to the person becoming covered under the
15plan.
 
16    Section 10. The Dental Care Patient Protection Act is
17amended by adding Section 47 as follows:
 
18    (215 ILCS 109/47 new)
19    Sec. 47. Replacement of teeth. No company offering a
20managed care dental plan or a point-of-service plan may deny
21coverage for replacement of teeth to any enrollee on the basis

 

 

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1of those teeth having been extracted or otherwise lost prior
2to the person becoming enrolled under the plan.
 
3    Section 15. The Dental Service Plan Act is amended by
4adding Section 30.5 as follows:
 
5    (215 ILCS 110/30.5 new)
6    Sec. 30.5. Replacement of teeth. No dental service plan
7company may deny coverage for replacement of teeth to any
8beneficiary on the basis of those teeth having been extracted
9or otherwise lost prior to the person becoming a beneficiary.