Cross State Licensing
A person who engages in the practice of telemedicine without a license or permit issued under this Act shall be subject to penalties provided in Section 59. A person with a temporary permit for health care may treat a patient located in this State through telehealth services in a manner consistent with the person’s scope of practice and agreement with a sponsoring entity. An out-of-state person providing a service to a patient in IL through telemedicine submits himself or herself to the jurisdiction of the courts of IL. (Scheduled to be repealed Jan. 1, 2027).
SOURCE: IL Compiled Statutes, Chapter 225, 60/49.5(b) & (e) (Accessed Feb. 2025).
A health care professional treating a patient located in this State through telehealth services must be licensed or authorized to practice in Illinois. A health care professional with a temporary permit for full practice advanced practice registered nurse for health care, a temporary permit for advanced practice registered nurse for health care, or a temporary permit for health care may treat a patient located in this State through telehealth services in a manner consistent with the health care professional’s scope of practice and agreement with a sponsoring entity.
SOURCE: IL Compiled Statutes, Chapter 225, 150/10. (Accessed Feb. 2025).
Any person who was issued a temporary reinstatement permit by the Department pursuant to a proclamation issued by the Secretary or related action by the Director in response to the COVID-19 pandemic may continue to practice under his or her temporary reinstatement permit if he or she submits an application for restoration or reinstatement of his or her license to the Department on or before May 11, 2023. Any such person may continue to practice under his or her temporary reinstatement permit until the Department restores or reinstates the license or denies the application, at which time the temporary reinstatement permit shall expire. If the Department does not restore or reinstate the license or does not deny the application by May 11, 2024, the temporary reinstatement permit shall expire. If the person holding a temporary reinstatement permit does not submit an application for restoration or reinstatement to the Department on or before May 11, 2023, the temporary reinstatement permit shall expire on that date.
SOURCE: IL Compiled Statutes, 20 ILCS 2105/2105-400. (Accessed Feb. 2025).
An optometrist treating a patient located in this State through telehealth must be licensed under this Act. (To be repealed Jan. 1, 2027).
SOURCE: IL Compiled Statutes Chapter 225, 80/15.4. (Accessed Feb. 2025).
Telemedicine means the performance of any of the activities listed in Section 49, including, but not limited to, rendering written or oral opinions concerning diagnosis or treatment of a patient in Illinois by a person in a different location than the patient as a result of transmission of individual patient data by telephonic, electronic, or other means of communication. “Telemedicine” does not include the following:
- periodic consultations between a person licensed under this Act and a person outside the State of Illinois;
- a second opinion provided to a person licensed under this Act;
- diagnosis or treatment services provided to a patient in Illinois following care or treatment originally provided to the patient in the state in which the provider is licensed to practice medicine; and
- health care services provided to an existing patient while the person licensed under this Act or patient is traveling.
This section is scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027.
SOURCE: IL Compiled Statutes, Chapter 225, 60/49.5(c). (Accessed Feb. 2025).
Social Work (To be repealed January 1, 2028)
A person not a resident of IL is not prohibited from performing social work via telehealth in the state for a nonresident of the state for not more than 5 days in any one month or more than 15 days in any one calendar year, that had a previous established therapeutic relationship with the nonresident, and the person is authorized to perform such services under the laws of the state or country in which the person resides.
A person who is not a resident of this state is not prohibited from performing social work via telehealth in this state for a nonresident of this state currently attending a university or college in this state, that had a previous established therapeutic relationship with the nonresident, and the person is authorized to perform such services under the laws of the state our country in which the person resides.
SOURCE: 225 ILCS 20/4 . (Accessed Feb. 2025).
Dietian (To be repealed January 1, 2028)
No person may provide, offer to provide, or attempt to provide medical nutrition therapy, whether for remuneration, or hold himself or herself out as a licensed dietitian nutritionist or as a qualified provider of nutrition care services, including medical nutrition therapy, unless the person is licensed in accordance with this Act.
This Section does not prohibit the provision of medical nutrition therapy by: a person who is licensed to practice dietetics and nutrition under the law of another state, territory of the United States, or country and has applied in writing to the Department in form and substance satisfactory to the Department for a license as a dietitian nutritionist until (i) the expiration of 6 months after filing the written application, (ii) the withdrawal of the application, or (iii) the denial of the application by the Department.
SOURCE: 225 ILCS 30/15 (a) & (b). (Accessed Feb. 2025).
Physician & Physician Assistant
The Department may issue a temporary permit to an applicant who is licensed to practice as a physician assistant in another state. The temporary permit will authorize the practice of providing health care to patients in this State, with a collaborating physician in this State, if certain conditions are met.
SOURCE: 225 ILCS 60/66 & 225 ILCS 95/9.7. (Accessed Feb. 2025).
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