§ 5-515 — Medical, dental, and pharmaceutical treatment and care

(a) At all times during temporary custody, detention or shelter care, the court may authorize a physician, a hospital or any other appropriate health care provider to provide medical, dental or surgical procedures or pharmaceuticals if those procedures or pharmaceuticals are necessary to safeguard the minor's life or health. If the minor is covered under an existing medical or dental plan, the county shall be reimbursed for the expenses incurred for such services as if the minor were not held in temporary custody, detention, or shelter care. (b) If a provider of temporary custody, detention, or shelter care has a contract with a pharmacy benefit manager or a contract with an insurance company, health maintenance organization, limited health service organization, administrative services organization, or any other managed care organization or health insurance issuer where a pharmacy benefit manager administers the provider's coverage of, payment for, or formulary design for drugs necessary to safeguard the minor's life or health, the contract with the pharmacy benefit manager and the pharmacy benefit manager's activities shall be subject to Article XXXIIB of the Illinois Insurance Code and the authority of the Director of Insurance to enforce those provisions. The provider shall have all the rights of a plan sponsor under those provisions.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 104-27, eff. 1-1-26 .)