ILLINOIS Health Insurance : requiring insurers to cover habilitative services for children : EasyToInsureME

ILLINOIS Health Insurance : Governor Pat Quinn signed a bill requiring insurers to cover habilitative services for children with a congenital, genetic or early acquired disorder up to age 19. At the carrier's request, providers must furnish medical records or other data necessary to substantiate that treatment is medically necessary and that the patient's condition is improving. As anticipated, individual market reform legislation passed the House with most of its provisions intact: establishing a 75 percent MLR in the individual and small group markets; authorizing development of a standard small group application and a standard health statement for individuals; and expanding the responsibilities of the Office of Consumer Health Insurance.