A physician licensed in another state may oversee or direct the delivery of skilled home care services provided by home health and home nursing agencies licensed in Illinois following care or treatment originally provided to the patient in the state in which the physician is licensed to practice medicine until care is transitioned to a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches in Illinois under the following conditions:
         (1) The out-of-state physician shall ask the patient
    
whether the patient has a primary care physician in Illinois. If the patient has a primary care physician in Illinois, the out-of-state physician shall contact the primary care physician and obtain the concurrence of that individual for ordering home health care services. The out-of-state physician shall make a notation of that contact in the patient’s medical record.
        (2) The transition period may not exceed 90 days of
    
skilled home care services except as provided by paragraph (3) of this Section.
        (3) The transition period may be up to 180 days of
    
skilled home care services for patients where home health services are needed to care for 2 or more medical conditions requiring intensive management by 2 or more physicians, with documentation supporting unsuccessful efforts in identifying an appropriate physician in Illinois within the initial 90-day time period.
        (4) Any significant change in the patient’s
    
condition shall be communicated by the Illinois licensed agency to the out-of-state physician and the patient’s Illinois licensed physician.
        (5) A copy of the license or evidence of licensure
    
by another state of the out-of-state physician must be retained in the patient’s chart.

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 210 ILCS 55/6.4

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.36
  • State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14
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