HB5585 Summary

• Requires health insurance plans amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024 to provide coverage for home health services for the duration of medically necessary care.

• Adds home health services coverage requirements (Section 356z.53) to the Illinois Insurance Code and mandates compliance across state employee health plans, county self-insured plans, municipal self-insured plans, and school employee health plans.

• Updates health maintenance organizations, limited health service organizations, and voluntary health services plans to comply with the new home health services coverage mandate.

• Applies home health coverage requirements to the medical assistance program (Medicaid) effective with the statutory changes.

• Conditions all rulemaking authority on compliance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and Joint Committee on Administrative Rules procedures.