Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 ILCS 51 Home Medical Equipment and Services Provider License Act. Section 35

    (225 ILCS 51/35)

    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)

    Sec. 35. Qualifications for licensure.

    (a) An entity is qualified to receive a license as a home medical equipment and services provider if the entity meets each of the following requirements:

        (1) complies with all applicable federal and State

    licensure and regulatory requirements;

        (2) maintains a physical facility and medical

    equipment inventory. There shall only be one license permitted at each address;

        (3) establishes proof of commercial general liability

    insurance, including but not limited to coverage for products liability and professional liability;

        (4) establishes and provides records of annual

    continuing education for personnel engaged in the delivery, maintenance, repair, cleaning, inventory control, and financial management of home medical equipment and services;

        (5) maintains records on all patients to whom it

    provides home medical equipment and services;

        (6) establishes equipment management and personnel

    policies;

        (7) makes life sustaining home medical equipment and

    services available 24 hours per day and 7 days per week;

        (8) complies with any additional qualifications for

    licensure as determined by rule of the Department.

    (b) The Department may request a personal interview of an applicant before the Board to further evaluate the entity's qualifications for licensure.

(Source: P.A. 90-532, eff. 11-14-97.)

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