HB2267 Summary

• Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act to increase the income threshold for public health dental hygienist services from 200% to 300% of the federal poverty level for uninsured patients.

• Allows a dentist to supervise up to 4 public health dental hygienists under public health supervision agreements, in addition to the standard limit of 4 dental hygienists per dentist.

• Modifies the definition of "public health supervision" to permit treatment of patients without prior dentist examination if they are Medicaid-eligible or uninsured with household income not exceeding 300% of federal poverty level.

• Expands dental assistant duties to include coronal scaling and intracoronal temporization for eligible patients under expanded function training, limited to those 17 years or younger without periodontal disease.

• Updates reporting requirements for public health dental hygienists to the Department of Public Health Oral Health Section, with annual compilation and public disclosure of service data.