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Executive Order 2020-09 (COVID-19 Executive Order No. 7)

Telehealth: definition of Telehealth Services; health insurers required to cover telehealth services; confidentiality and technology accommodations for providers

Governor JB Pritzker · Illinois (State)

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Jurisdiction
Illinois
Level
State
Authority
20 ILCS 3305/7(1), 7(8), 7(12); Illinois Insurance Code sec. 356z.22
Issued
2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
Effective
2020-03-19
End
Sections 9 and 10 re-issued monthly through Oct. 16, 2021 (EO 2021-23) and beyond; other sections into 2021 (read as 2021-10-16)
In force
Mar. 19, 2020 to Oct. 16, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Health care ordersOther
Addressees
  • health insurers and health plans
  • health care providers
  • mental health and developmental disability providers
Functions reached
  • TM telehealth under waivers
  • CL clinical intake (converted to remote)
  • IN insurance
  • CB patients and payers
Collection
Illinois IL

Operative words

Section 1. 'Telehealth Services' shall be defined to include the provision of health care, psychiatry, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, and related services to a patient, regardless of their location, through electronic or telephonic methods, such as telephone (landline or cellular), video technology commonly available on smart phones and other devices such as FaceTime, Facebook Messenger video chat, Google Hangouts video, or Skype, and videoconferencing... Section 9. A covered health care provider and/or covered entity subject to the requirements of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act, 740 ILCS 110, that uses audio or video communication technology to provide Telehealth Services to mental health and developmental disability patients may use any non-public facing remote communication product in accordance with Section 1 of this Executive Order for the duration of the Gubernatorial Disaster Proclamation.

Enforcement

20 ILCS 3305/7; Department of Insurance

Notes

The order that converted Illinois outpatient, behavioral and dental consultation to remote delivery by mandating coverage; in force by re-issue on every day of the third quarter of 2021.