(225 ILCS 51/10)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)
Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
(1) "Department" means the Department of Financial
and Professional Regulation.
(2) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Financial and
Professional Regulation.
(3) "Board" means the Home Medical Equipment and
Services Board.
(4) "Home medical equipment and services provider" or
"provider" means a legal entity, as defined by State law, engaged in the business of providing home medical equipment and services, whether directly or through a contractual arrangement, to an unrelated sick or disabled individual where that individual resides.
(5) "Home medical equipment and services" means the
delivery, installation, maintenance, replacement, or instruction in the use of medical equipment used by a sick or disabled individual to allow the individual to be maintained in his or her residence.
(6) "Home medical equipment" means technologically
sophisticated medical devices, apparatuses, machines, or other similar articles bearing a label that states "Caution: federal law requires dispensing by or on the order of a physician.", which are usable in a home care setting, including but not limited to:
(A) oxygen and oxygen delivery systems;
(B) ventilators;
(C) respiratory disease management devices,
excluding compressor driven nebulizers;
(D) wheelchair seating systems;
(E) apnea monitors;
(F) transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator
(TENS) units;
(G) low air-loss cutaneous pressure management
devices;
(H) sequential compression devices;
(I) neonatal home phototherapy devices;
(J) enteral feeding pumps; and
(K) other similar equipment as defined by the
Board.
"Home medical equipment" also includes hospital beds
and electronic and computer-driven wheelchairs, excluding scooters.
(7) "Address of record" means the designated address
recorded by the Department in the applicant's or licensee's application file or license file maintained by the Department's licensure maintenance unit. It is the duty of the applicant or licensee to inform the Department of any change of address, and such changes must be made either through the Department's website or by contacting the Department's licensure maintenance unit.
(Source: P.A. 95-703, eff. 12-31-07.)
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