HB4260 - 104th General Assembly
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning business. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Practices Act is amended by adding Section 2MMMM as follows: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | (815 ILCS 505/2MMMM new) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 2MMMM. Hospital services advertising. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | (a) As used in this Section: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | "Hospital" means a hospital licensed under the Hospital | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Licensing Act or a hospital organized under the University of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Illinois Hospital Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | "Telehealth services" has the meaning given to that term | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | in the Telehealth Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | (b) Every hospital must advertise what services it | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | provides. Every hospital providing telehealth services must | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | specify that those services are provided via telehealth. Every | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | hospital must make clearly available on its website | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | information about what services it provides and what services | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | are provided via telehealth. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | (c) A person who violates this Section commits an unlawful | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | practice within the meaning of this Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
