Public Act 101-0371
 
HB0889 EnrolledLRB101 04337 SMS 51168 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 Insurance Code is amended  by adding 
Section 356z.33 as follows:
 
    (215 ILCS 5/356z.33 new)
    Sec. 356z.33. Long-term antibiotic therapy for tick-borne 
diseases.
    (a) As used in this Section:
    "Long-term antibiotic therapy" means the administration of 
oral, intramuscular, or intravenous antibiotics singly or in 
combination for periods of time in excess of 4 weeks.
    "Tick-borne disease" means a disease caused when an 
infected tick bites a person and the tick's saliva transmits an 
infectious agent (bacteria, viruses, or parasites) that can 
cause illness, including, but not limited to, the following:
        (1) a severe infection with borrelia burgdorferi;
        (2) a late stage, persistent, or chronic infection or 
    complications related to such an infection;
        (3) an infection with other strains of borrelia or a 
    tick-borne disease that is recognized by the United States 
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and
        (4) the presence of signs or symptoms compatible with 
    acute infection of borrelia or other tick-borne diseases.
    (b) An individual or group policy of accident and health 
insurance or managed care plan that is amended, delivered, 
issued, or renewed on or after the effective date of this 
amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly shall provide 
coverage for long-term antibiotic therapy, including necessary 
office visits and ongoing testing, for a person with a 
tick-borne disease when determined to be medically necessary 
and ordered by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all 
its branches after making a thorough evaluation of the person's 
symptoms, diagnostic test results, or response to treatment. An 
experimental drug shall be covered as a long-term antibiotic 
therapy if it is approved for an indication by the United 
States Food and Drug Administration. A drug, including an 
experimental drug, shall be covered for an off-label use in the 
treatment of a tick-borne disease if the drug has been approved 
by the United States Food and Drug Administration. 
 
    Section 10. The Health Maintenance Organization Act is 
amended  by changing Section 5-3 as follows:
 


    (215 ILCS 125/5-3)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1411.2)


    Sec. 5-3. Insurance Code provisions. 

    (a) Health Maintenance Organizations
shall be subject to 
the provisions of Sections 133, 134, 136, 137, 139, 140, 141.1,

141.2, 141.3, 143, 143c, 147, 148, 149, 151,
152, 153, 154, 
154.5, 154.6,
154.7, 154.8, 155.04, 155.22a, 355.2, 355.3, 
355b, 356g.5-1, 356m, 356v, 356w, 356x, 356y,
356z.2, 356z.4, 
356z.5, 356z.6, 356z.8, 356z.9, 356z.10, 356z.11, 356z.12, 
356z.13, 356z.14, 356z.15, 356z.17, 356z.18, 356z.19, 356z.21, 
356z.22, 356z.25, 356z.26, 356z.29, 356z.30, 356z.32, 356z.33, 
364, 364.01, 367.2, 367.2-5, 367i, 368a, 368b, 368c, 368d, 
368e, 370c,
370c.1, 401, 401.1, 402, 403, 403A,
408, 408.2, 
409, 412, 444,
and
444.1,
paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of 
Section 367, and Articles IIA, VIII 1/2,
XII,
XII 1/2, XIII, 
XIII 1/2, XXV, and XXVI of the Illinois Insurance Code.

    (b) For purposes of the Illinois Insurance Code, except for 
Sections 444
and 444.1 and Articles XIII and XIII 1/2, Health 
Maintenance Organizations in
the following categories are 
deemed to be "domestic companies":

        (1) a corporation authorized under the
Dental Service 
    Plan Act or the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act;

        (2) a corporation organized under the laws of this 
    State; or

        (3) a corporation organized under the laws of another 
    state, 30% or more
of the enrollees of which are residents 
    of this State, except a
corporation subject to 
    substantially the same requirements in its state of

    organization as is a "domestic company" under Article VIII 
    1/2 of the
Illinois Insurance Code.

    (c) In considering the merger, consolidation, or other 
acquisition of
control of a Health Maintenance Organization 
pursuant to Article VIII 1/2
of the Illinois Insurance Code,

        (1) the Director shall give primary consideration to 
    the continuation of
benefits to enrollees and the financial 
    conditions of the acquired Health
Maintenance Organization 
    after the merger, consolidation, or other
acquisition of 
    control takes effect;

        (2)(i) the criteria specified in subsection (1)(b) of 
    Section 131.8 of
the Illinois Insurance Code shall not 
    apply and (ii) the Director, in making
his determination 
    with respect to the merger, consolidation, or other

    acquisition of control, need not take into account the 
    effect on
competition of the merger, consolidation, or 
    other acquisition of control;

        (3) the Director shall have the power to require the 
    following
information:

            (A) certification by an independent actuary of the 
        adequacy
of the reserves of the Health Maintenance 
        Organization sought to be acquired;

            (B) pro forma financial statements reflecting the 
        combined balance
sheets of the acquiring company and 
        the Health Maintenance Organization sought
to be 
        acquired as of the end of the preceding year and as of 
        a date 90 days
prior to the acquisition, as well as pro 
        forma financial statements
reflecting projected 
        combined operation for a period of 2 years;

            (C) a pro forma business plan detailing an 
        acquiring party's plans with
respect to the operation 
        of the Health Maintenance Organization sought to
be 
        acquired for a period of not less than 3 years; and

            (D) such other information as the Director shall 
        require.

    (d) The provisions of Article VIII 1/2 of the Illinois 
Insurance Code
and this Section 5-3 shall apply to the sale by 
any health maintenance
organization of greater than 10% of its

enrollee population (including without limitation the health 
maintenance
organization's right, title, and interest in and to 
its health care
certificates).

    (e) In considering any management contract or service 
agreement subject
to Section 141.1 of the Illinois Insurance 
Code, the Director (i) shall, in
addition to the criteria 
specified in Section 141.2 of the Illinois
Insurance Code, take 
into account the effect of the management contract or
service 
agreement on the continuation of benefits to enrollees and the

financial condition of the health maintenance organization to 
be managed or
serviced, and (ii) need not take into account the 
effect of the management
contract or service agreement on 
competition.

    (f) Except for small employer groups as defined in the 
Small Employer
Rating, Renewability and Portability Health 
Insurance Act and except for
medicare supplement policies as 
defined in Section 363 of the Illinois
Insurance Code, a Health 
Maintenance Organization may by contract agree with a
group or 
other enrollment unit to effect refunds or charge additional 
premiums
under the following terms and conditions:

        (i) the amount of, and other terms and conditions with 
    respect to, the
refund or additional premium are set forth 
    in the group or enrollment unit
contract agreed in advance 
    of the period for which a refund is to be paid or

    additional premium is to be charged (which period shall not 
    be less than one
year); and

        (ii) the amount of the refund or additional premium 
    shall not exceed 20%
of the Health Maintenance 
    Organization's profitable or unprofitable experience
with 
    respect to the group or other enrollment unit for the 
    period (and, for
purposes of a refund or additional 
    premium, the profitable or unprofitable
experience shall 
    be calculated taking into account a pro rata share of the

    Health Maintenance Organization's administrative and 
    marketing expenses, but
shall not include any refund to be 
    made or additional premium to be paid
pursuant to this 
    subsection (f)).  The Health Maintenance Organization and 
    the
group or enrollment unit may agree that the profitable 
    or unprofitable
experience may be calculated taking into 
    account the refund period and the
immediately preceding 2 
    plan years.

    The Health Maintenance Organization shall include a 
statement in the
evidence of coverage issued to each enrollee 
describing the possibility of a
refund or additional premium, 
and upon request of any group or enrollment unit,
provide to 
the group or enrollment unit a description of the method used 
to
calculate (1) the Health Maintenance Organization's 
profitable experience with
respect to the group or enrollment 
unit and the resulting refund to the group
or enrollment unit 
or (2) the Health Maintenance Organization's unprofitable

experience with respect to the group or enrollment unit and the 
resulting
additional premium to be paid by the group or 
enrollment unit.

    In no event shall the Illinois Health Maintenance 
Organization
Guaranty Association be liable to pay any 
contractual obligation of an
insolvent organization to pay any 
refund authorized under this Section.

    (g) Rulemaking authority to implement Public Act 95-1045, 
if any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance 
with all provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure 
Act and all rules and procedures of the Joint Committee on 
Administrative Rules; any purported rule not so adopted, for 
whatever reason, is unauthorized. 
(Source: P.A. 99-761, eff. 1-1-18; 100-24, eff. 7-18-17; 
100-138, eff. 8-18-17; 100-863, eff. 8-14-18; 100-1026, eff. 
8-22-18; 100-1057, eff. 1-1-19; 100-1102, eff. 1-1-19; revised 
10-4-18.)
  
 
    Section 15. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by 
changing Section 5-16.8 as follows:
 


    (305 ILCS 5/5-16.8)



    Sec. 5-16.8. Required health benefits. The medical 
assistance program
shall
(i) provide the post-mastectomy care 
benefits required to be covered by a policy of
accident and 
health insurance under Section 356t and the coverage required

under Sections 356g.5, 356u, 356w, 356x, 356z.6, 356z.26, and 
356z.29, 356z.32, and 356z.33 of the Illinois
Insurance Code 
and (ii) be subject to the provisions of Sections 356z.19, 
364.01, 370c, and 370c.1 of the Illinois
Insurance Code.

    On and after July 1, 2012, the Department shall reduce any 
rate of reimbursement for services or other payments or alter 
any methodologies authorized by this Code to reduce any rate of 
reimbursement for services or other payments in accordance with 
Section 5-5e. 
    To ensure full access to the benefits set forth in this 
Section, on and after January 1, 2016, the Department shall 
ensure that provider and hospital reimbursement  for 
post-mastectomy care benefits required under this Section are 
no lower than the Medicare reimbursement rate. 
(Source: P.A. 99-433, eff. 8-21-15; 99-480, eff. 9-9-15; 
99-642, eff. 7-28-16; 100-138, eff. 8-18-17; 100-863, eff. 
8-14-18; 100-1057, eff. 1-1-19; 100-1102, eff. 1-1-19; revised 
10-4-18.)




Effective Date:  1/1/2020