The Alliance for Connected Care is in strong support of HB 4369, which would bring Illinois into the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC). This legislation is crucial to Illinois’ continued leadership on health care.
Enacting HB 4369 would bring to fruition Illinois’s commitment to expanding access to care. As part of Illinois’s Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) agreement with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the state committed to joining the NLC. That federal funding is at risk if Illinois does not enact NLC legislation by December 31, 2027. The General Assembly has a direct opportunity to protect its rural health care funding by passing this bill.
The Alliance believes NLC participation should be viewed as the essential foundation, but not the ceiling, for a state committed to expanding access through telehealth. After passing HB 4369, Illinois should consider adopting the Uniform Telehealth Act (UTA) model legislation developed by the Uniform Law Commission.
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