(a) No vision care organization that issues, delivers, amends, or renews a vision care plan on or after the effective date of this Act shall issue a vision care plan contract that requires:
         (1) an eye care provider to contract with a plan that
    
offers supplemental or specialty health care services as a condition of contracting with a plan that offers basic health services; or
        (2) an eye care provider to contract with a vision
    
care plan as a condition to participation in a medical plan or in-network.
    (b) A vision care plan may enter into an agreement with a health care plan to deliver routine vision care services that are covered under the enrollee’s plan.

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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 161/40

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.

     (c) A vision care plan may act as a network regarding routine vision care services offered by a health care plan.