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215 ILCS 5/356z.70

    (215 ILCS 5/356z.70)
    Sec. 356z.70. Coverage of no-cost mental health prevention and wellness visits.

(a) A group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025 shall provide coverage for one annual mental health prevention and wellness visit for children and for adults.

(b) Mental health prevention and wellness visits shall include any age-appropriate screening recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force or by the American Academy of Pediatrics' Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents for purposes of identifying a mental health issue, condition, or disorder; discussing mental health symptoms that might be present, including symptoms of a previously diagnosed mental health condition or disorder; performing an evaluation of adverse childhood experiences; and discussing mental health and wellness.

(c) A mental health prevention and wellness visit shall be covered for up to 60 minutes and may be performed by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches, a licensed clinical psychologist, a licensed clinical social worker, a licensed clinical professional counselor, a licensed marriage and family therapist, a licensed social worker, or a licensed professional counselor.

(d) A policy subject to this Section shall not impose a deductible, coinsurance, copayment, or other cost-sharing requirement for mental health prevention and wellness visits. The cost-sharing prohibition in this subsection (d) does not apply to coverage of mental health prevention and wellness visits to the extent such coverage would disqualify a high-deductible health plan from eligibility for a health savings account pursuant to Section 223 of the Internal Revenue Code.

(e) A mental health prevention and wellness visit shall be in addition to an annual physical examination and shall not replace a well-child visit or a general health or medical visit.

(f) A mental health prevention and wellness visit shall be reimbursed through the following American Medical Association current procedural terminology codes and at the same rate that current procedural terminology codes are reimbursed for the provision of other medical care: 99381-99387 and 99391-99397. The Department shall update the current procedural terminology codes through adoption of rules if the codes listed in this subsection are altered, amended, changed, deleted, or supplemented.

(g) Reimbursement of any of the current procedural terminology codes listed in this Section shall comply with the following:

(1) reimbursement may be adjusted for payment of

claims that are billed by a nonphysician clinician so long as the methodology to determine the adjustments are comparable to and applied no more stringently than the methodology for adjustments made for reimbursement of claims billed by nonphysician clinicians for other medical care, in accordance with 45 CFR 146.136(c)(4); and

(2) for a mental health prevention and wellness visit

and for a service other than a mental health prevention and wellness visit, reimbursement shall not be denied if they occur on the same date by the same provider and the provider is a primary care provider.

(h) A mental health prevention and wellness visit may be incorporated into and reimbursed within any type of integrated primary care service delivery method, including, but not limited to, a psychiatric collaborative care model as provided for under this Code.

(i) The Department shall adopt any rules necessary to implement this Section by no later than October 31, 2024.
(Source: P.A. 103-535, eff. 8-11-23; 103-605, eff. 7-1-24.)