{"id":"IL-068","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Illinois","state":"IL","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor JB Pritzker","authority":"20 ILCS 3305/7(1), 7(8), 7(12); Illinois Insurance Code sec. 356z.22","instrument":"Executive Order 2020-09 (COVID-19 Executive Order No. 7)","title":"Telehealth: definition of Telehealth Services; health insurers required to cover telehealth services; confidentiality and technology accommodations for providers","dateIssued":"2020-03-19","effective":"2020-03-19","end":"Sections 9 and 10 re-issued monthly through Oct. 16, 2021 (EO 2021-23) and beyond; other sections into 2021","startDate":"2020-03-19","endDate":"2021-10-16","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["HC","OTHER"],"addressees":["health insurers and health plans","health care providers","mental health and developmental disability providers"],"clause":"Section 1. \u0027Telehealth Services\u0027 shall be defined to include the provision of health care, psychiatry, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, and related services to a patient, regardless of their location, through electronic or telephonic methods, such as telephone (landline or cellular), video technology commonly available on smart phones and other devices such as FaceTime, Facebook Messenger video chat, Google Hangouts video, or Skype, and videoconferencing... Section 9. A covered health care provider and/or covered entity subject to the requirements of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act, 740 ILCS 110, that uses audio or video communication technology to provide Telehealth Services to mental health and developmental disability patients may use any non-public facing remote communication product in accordance with Section 1 of this Executive Order for the duration of the Gubernatorial Disaster Proclamation.","enforcement":"20 ILCS 3305/7; Department of Insurance","functions":["TM telehealth under waivers","CL clinical intake (converted to remote)","IN insurance","CB patients and payers"],"notes":"The order that converted Illinois outpatient, behavioral and dental consultation to remote delivery by mandating coverage; in force by re-issue on every day of the third quarter of 2021.","sourceUrl":"https://www.illinois.gov/government/executive-orders/executive-order.executive-order-number-9.2020.html","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20211008192716/https://www.illinois.gov/government/executive-orders/executive-order.executive-order-number-9.2020.html","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":146857,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"IL","url":"/library/IL-068","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/IL-068","citation":"Governor JB Pritzker, Executive Order 2020-09 (COVID-19 Executive Order No. 7) (Mar. 19, 2020) (Ex. IL-068)","stateName":"Illinois","related":["IL-003","IL-005","IL-006","IL-004","IL-002","IL-007","IL-008","IL-001","IL-009","IL-010","IL-012","IL-014"]}