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90_SB0314
New Act
5 ILCS 80/4.17 new
Creates the Telemedicine Licensure Act to require the
licensure of non-resident physicians who seek to provide
certain medical services to in-state physicians or patients
through electronic means.
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1 AN ACT to create the Telemedicine Licensure Act.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 1. Title. This Act shall be known as the
5 Telemedicine Licensure Act.
6 Section 5. Telemedicine.
7 (a) In addition to any provisions of the Medical
8 Practice Act of 1987 defining the practice of medicine, that
9 practice includes any arrangement for compensation whereby a
10 physician, regardless of his or her residency, provides
11 through electronic or other means of communication diagnostic
12 services or treatment to any resident of the State of
13 Illinois.
14 (b) In the case of electronically transmitted
15 radiographic images, no out-of-state physician may provide,
16 pursuant to an ongoing, regular arrangement, official written
17 reports of his or her diagnostic evaluations of those images
18 to an in-state physician or patient without a license issued
19 under the Medical Practice Act of 1987. This subsection does
20 not apply to non-resident physicians who, while located
21 outside of this State, provide a second opinion regarding a
22 patient of a physician who is licensed under the Medical
23 Practice Act of 1987 and is located in this State.
24 Section 10. Jurisdiction. An out-of-state physician
25 providing diagnostic services or treatment to an Illinois
26 patient submits himself or herself to the jurisdiction of the
27 courts of this State as to any cause of action arising from
28 those services.
29 Section 15. Violations. Any person who is found by the
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1 Department of Professional Regulation to have violated a
2 provision of this Act is subject to the enforcement
3 provisions of the Medical Practice Act of 1987.
4 Section 75. The Regulatory Agency Sunset Act is amended
5 by adding Section 4.17 as follows:
6 (5 ILCS 80/4.17 new)
7 Sec. 4.17. Act repealed on January 1, 2008. The
8 following Act is repealed on January 1, 2008.
9 The Telemedicine Licensure Act.
10 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
11 becoming law.