Full Text of SB0111 101st General Assembly
SB0111sam001 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Julie A. Morrison Filed: 2/5/2019
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 111
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 111 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 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 January | 11 | | 1, 2003 (the effective date of Public Act 92-764) shall cover
| 12 | | charges incurred, and anesthetics provided, in
conjunction | 13 | | with dental care that is provided to a covered individual in a
| 14 | | hospital or
an ambulatory surgical treatment center
if any of | 15 | | the
following
applies:
| 16 | | (1) the individual is a child age 6 or under;
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| 1 | | (2) the individual has a medical condition that | 2 | | requires
hospitalization or general anesthesia for dental | 3 | | care; or
| 4 | | (3) the individual is a person with a disability.
| 5 | | (a-5) An individual or group policy of accident and health | 6 | | insurance amended, delivered, issued, or renewed after January | 7 | | 1, 2016 (the effective date of Public Act 99-141) shall cover | 8 | | charges incurred, and anesthetics provided by a dentist with a | 9 | | permit provided under Section 8.1 of the Illinois Dental | 10 | | Practice Act or a physician licensed to practice medicine in | 11 | | all of its branches under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 , in | 12 | | conjunction with dental care that is provided to a covered | 13 | | individual in a dental office, oral surgeon's office, hospital, | 14 | | or ambulatory surgical treatment center if the individual is | 15 | | under age 26 19 and has been diagnosed with an autism spectrum | 16 | | disorder as defined in Section 10 of the Autism Spectrum | 17 | | Disorders Reporting Act or a developmental disability. A | 18 | | covered individual shall be required to make 2 visits to the | 19 | | dental care provider prior to accessing other coverage under | 20 | | this subsection. | 21 | | For purposes of this subsection, "developmental | 22 | | disability" means a disability that is attributable to an | 23 | | intellectual disability or a related condition, if the related | 24 | | condition meets all of the following conditions: | 25 | | (1) it is attributable to cerebral palsy, epilepsy, or | 26 | | any other condition, other than mental illness, found to be |
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| 1 | | closely related to an intellectual disability because that | 2 | | condition results in impairment of general intellectual | 3 | | functioning or adaptive behavior similar to that of | 4 | | individuals with an intellectual disability and requires | 5 | | treatment or services similar to those required for those | 6 | | individuals; for purposes of this definition, autism is | 7 | | considered a related condition; | 8 | | (2) it is manifested before the individual reaches age | 9 | | 22; | 10 | | (3) it is likely to continue indefinitely; and | 11 | | (4) it results in substantial functional limitations | 12 | | in 3 or more of the following areas of major life activity: | 13 | | self-care, language, learning, mobility, self-direction, | 14 | | and capacity for independent living. | 15 | | (b) For purposes of this Section, "ambulatory surgical | 16 | | treatment center"
has the meaning given to that term in Section | 17 | | 3 of the Ambulatory
Surgical Treatment Center Act.
| 18 | | For purposes of this Section, "person with a disability" | 19 | | means a person, regardless of age,
with a chronic
disability if | 20 | | the chronic disability meets all of the following conditions:
| 21 | | (1) It is attributable to a mental or physical | 22 | | impairment or
combination of mental and physical | 23 | | impairments.
| 24 | | (2) It is likely to continue.
| 25 | | (3) It results in substantial functional limitations | 26 | | 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. 99-141, eff. 1-1-16; 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; | 22 | | 99-642, eff. 7-28-16.)".
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