Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for SB1234

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act. Provides that a person, institution, or agency that maintains a recipient's pharmaceutical records and communications regarding pharmaceuticals may disclose those records and communications, along with related payment records, to any medical practitioner who is providing medical care to the recipient. Effective immediately.

Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act. Provides that for purposes of treatment and coordination of care, State agencies, including the Department of Corrections, county jails, insurance companies, and integrated health systems, may disclose records of a recipient without the recipient's consent, if the recipient is in a program administered or operated by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services or the Department of Human Services to hospitals, physicians, therapists, emergency medical personnel and members of an interdisciplinary team treating a recipient with or without the recipient's consent. Provides that providers on an interdisciplinary care team treating a recipient may disclose the recipient's records without the recipient's consent to other members of the team. Provides that the records that may be disclosed are services rendered, providers rendering the services, pharmaceuticals prescribed or dispensed, and diagnoses. Provides that all disclosures must be made in a manner consistent with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Effective immediately.

Replaces everything after the enacting clause with provisions substantially similar to the bill except it provides: that for a recipient in a program operated or administered by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services or the Department of Human Services, the recipient's records may be disclosed without consent by county jails, insurance companies, integrated health systems, and State agencies (instead of county jails, insurance companies, and State agencies) to hospitals, physicians, therapists, emergency medical personnel, and members of an interdisciplinary team treating a recipient for the purposes of treatment and coordination of care; this type of disclosure must be consistent with existing federal and State laws and regulations and HIPAA (instead of consistent with HIPAA); and definitions of "integrated health system" and "interdisciplinary team". Effective immediately.

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