IL SB0040

Expands insurance coverage for children under 19 with speech-language disorders (including stuttering) to include rehabilitative services in addition to existing habilitative services, defined as speech therapy that restores or improves skills for daily living that have been lost or impaired

Requires the Illinois Medicaid program to cover medically necessary rehabilitative and habilitative services for individuals under 21 with speech-language disorders, including stuttering, subject to federal approval, beginning July 1, 2025

Amends the Limited Health Service Organization Act to add Section 356z.15 (habilitative services for children) and Sections 356z.73, 356z.74, and 356z.75 to the list of Illinois Insurance Code provisions that apply to limited health service organizations

Insurance coverage provisions take effect January 1, 2027, while Medicaid provisions take effect July 1, 2025