IL HB3879

Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall designate one or more health care telementoring entities through an application process requiring demonstrated expertise and success in providing telementoring services.

Approved Illinois applicants are eligible for State funding based on the number of physicians assisted and hours of assistance provided, with rules to be developed by the Department.

Health care telementoring is defined as an interactive video technology program connecting community health care providers in urban and rural underserved areas with specialists in regular real-time collaborative sessions.

Telementoring programs must be designed around case-based learning and mentorship to help local health care providers gain expertise to more effectively provide needed services.

Telementoring services may address adolescent health, Hepatitis C, complex diabetes, geriatrics, mental illness, opioid use disorders, substance use disorders, maternity care, childhood adversity and trauma, pediatric ADHD, and other priorities identified by the Department.