94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1168

 

Introduced 2/8/2005, by Rep. Frank J. Mautino

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
215 ILCS 5/356z.2

    Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning coverage for adjunctive services in dental care.


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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,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by
5 changing Section 356z.2 as follows:
 
6     (215 ILCS 5/356z.2)
7     Sec. 356z.2. Coverage for adjunctive services in dental
8 care.
9     (a) An individual or group policy of accident and health
10 insurance amended, delivered, issued, or renewed after the the
11 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General
12 Assembly shall cover charges incurred, and anesthetics
13 provided, in conjunction with dental care that is provided to a
14 covered individual in a hospital or an ambulatory surgical
15 treatment center if any of the following applies:
16         (1) the individual is a child age 6 or under;
17         (2) the individual has a medical condition that
18     requires hospitalization or general anesthesia for dental
19     care; or
20         (3) the individual is disabled.
21     (b) For purposes of this Section, "ambulatory surgical
22 treatment center" has the meaning given to that term in Section
23 3 of the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act.
24     For purposes of this Section, "disabled" means a person,
25 regardless of age, with a chronic disability if the chronic
26 disability meets all of the following conditions:
27         (1) It is attributable to a mental or physical
28     impairment or     combination of mental and physical
29     impairments.
30         (2) It is likely to continue.
31         (3) It results in substantial functional limitations
32     in one or more of the following areas of major life

 

 

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1     activity:
2             (A) self-care;
3             (B) receptive and expressive language;
4             (C) learning;
5             (D) mobility;
6             (E) capacity for independent living; or
7             (F) economic self-sufficiency.
8     (c) The coverage required under this Section may be subject
9 to any limitations, exclusions, or cost-sharing provisions
10 that apply generally under the insurance policy.
11     (d) This Section does not apply to a policy that covers
12 only dental care.
13     (e) Nothing in this Section requires that the dental
14 services be covered.
15     (f) The provisions of this Section do not apply to
16 short-term travel, accident-only, limited, or specified
17 disease policies, nor to policies or contracts designed for
18 issuance to persons eligible for coverage under Title XVIII of
19 the Social Security Act, known as Medicare, or any other
20 similar coverage under State or federal governmental plans.
21 (Source: P.A. 92-764, eff. 1-1-03.)