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Health Care Availability and Access Committee
Filed: 3/11/2008
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LRB095 16742 AMC 47754 a |
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4602
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4602, on page 4, by |
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| replacing lines 2 through 8 with the following:
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| "(215 ILCS 5/356z.11 new) |
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| Sec. 356z.11. Shingles vaccine. A group or individual |
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| policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan |
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| amended, delivered, issued, or renewed after the effective date |
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| of the amendatory Act of this 95th General Assembly must |
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| provide coverage for a vaccine for shingles that is approved |
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| for marketing by the federal Food and Drug Administration if |
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| the vaccine is ordered by a physician licensed to practice |
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| medicine in all its branches and the enrollee is 60 years of |
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| age or older.".
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