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1		AN ACT concerning State government.
2		Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3		represented in the General Assembly:
4		Section 5. The Department of Healthcare and Family
5		Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
6		amended by adding Section 30 as follows:
7		(20 ILCS 2205/30 new)
8		Sec. 30. Health care telementoring.
9		(a) The Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall
10		designate one or more health care telementoring entities based
11		on an application to be developed by the Department of
12		Healthcare and Family Services. Applicants shall demonstrate a
13		record of expertise and demonstrated success in providing
14		health care telementoring services. Approved applicants from
15		Illinois shall be eligible for State funding in accordance
16		with rules developed by the Department of Healthcare and
17		Family Services. Funding shall be provided based on the number
18		of physicians who are assisted by each approved health care
19		telementoring entity and the hours of assistance provided to
20		each physician.
21		(b) In this Section, "health care telementoring" means a
22		program:
23		(1) based on interactive video technology that

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1		connects groups of community health care providers in
2		urban and rural underserved areas with specialists in
3		regular real-time collaborative sessions;
4		(2) designed around case-based learning and
5		mentorship; and
6		(3) that helps local health care providers gain the
7		expertise required to more effectively provide needed
8		services.
9		"Health care telementoring" includes, but is not limited
10		to, a program provided to improve services in a variety of
11		areas, including, but not limited to, adolescent health,
12		Hepatitis C, complex diabetes, geriatrics, mental illness,
13		opioid use disorders, substance use disorders, maternity care,
14		childhood adversity and trauma, pediatric ADHD, and other
15		priorities identified by the Department of Healthcare and
16		Family Services.