Understandably, no one is happy to hear that he or she is the subject of a license investigation by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR). However, as with any other worrisome situation, lack of knowledge about the process causes much of the trauma.
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Every employer is now required to provide sexual harassment prevention training to all employees each year. The IDHR has provided a model sexual harassment training program for 2020 that meets the minimum training standards in the new law.
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With that status comes the responsibility to meet the same continuing medical education (CME) requirements as all physicians under the Act and the rules.
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Because government is intended to work for its citizens, the public has the right to view certain documents that agencies create or receive in doing their work. In Illinois, the Freedom of Information Act expresses a clear policy “…that all persons are entitled to full and complete information regarding the affairs of government…access by all persons to public records promotes…transparency and accountability of public bodies…
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Illinois licensed physicians are included in a list of “mandated reporters” who must notify the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) when they have reasonable cause to believe that a child may be abused or neglected. All mandated reporters, including physicians, must now complete DCFS mandated reporter training under a recent amendment to the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act, effective January 1, 2020.[i]
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Although multiple laws go into effect in Illinois on January 1 each year, this year’s most notable was the legalization of adult recreational marijuana under the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. The law clearly intends to decriminalize the adult use of cannabis; however, other consequences of the law are not as well-understood.
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A holder of a medical license must notify the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) on a printed form if the licensee changes his/her name by marriage, court order, or dissolution of marriage.
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As the health care market experiences increasing demand for patient convenience, so grows the interest in health care services via telemedicine. Telemedicine under Illinois law means “rendering written or oral opinions concerning diagnosis or treatment of a patient in Illinois by a person in a different location than the patient …by telephonic, electronic, or other means of communication.” This could include physician-patient interaction by electronic mail, texting, video or telephone. Some services are, of course, better suited than others for this type of health care delivery.
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