215 ILCS 5/356z.57

(215 ILCS 5/356z.57)

Sec. 356z.57. Pediatric palliative care.

(a) A group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024 shall provide coverage for community-based pediatric palliative care and hospice care. This care shall be delivered to any qualifying child with a serious illness by a trained interdisciplinary team that allows a child to receive community-based pediatric palliative care and hospice care while continuing to pursue curative treatment and disease-directed therapies for the qualifying illness.

(b) As used in this Section, "palliative care" and "serious illness" have the same meaning as set forth in the Pediatric Palliative Care Act.

(Source: P.A. 102-860, eff. 1-1-23; 103-154, eff. 6-30-23.)