Public Act 098-0768
 
SB3115 EnrolledLRB098 19600 ZMM 54793 b


  
    AN ACT concerning regulation.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Physical Therapy Act is amended  by 
changing Section 16.5 as follows:
 



    (225 ILCS 90/16.5)


    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016)

    Sec. 16.5. Advertising services. 

    (a) A licensee shall include in every advertisement for 
services regulated under
this
Act his or her title as it

appears on the license or the initials authorized under this 
Act.

    (b) It is unlawful for any person licensed under this Act

to use testimonials or claims of superior quality of care to

entice the public.  It shall be unlawful to advertise fee

comparisons of available services with those of other
persons 
licensed under this Act.

    (c) This Act does not authorize the advertising of

professional services that the offeror of such services is
not 
licensed to render.  Nor shall the advertiser use
statements 
that contain false, fraudulent, deceptive or
misleading 
material or guarantees of success, play upon the vanity or 
fears of the public, or
promote or produce unfair competition.

    (d) It is unlawful and punishable under Section 31 for any 
person
licensed under this Act to knowingly advertise that the 
licensee will accept as
payment for services rendered by 
assignment from any third-party payor the
amount the 
third-party payor covers as payment in full, if the effect is 
to
give the impression of eliminating the need of payment by 
the patient of any
required deductible or copayment applicable 
in the patient's health benefit
plan.

    (e) As used in this Section, "advertise" means solicitation 
by the licensee or
through another by means of handbills, 
posters, circulars, motion pictures,
radio, newspapers, or 
television or in any other manner.

(Source: P.A. 93-1010, eff. 8-24-04.)