Illinois Company Bulletin 2025-04

Springfield Office 320 W. Washington Street Springfield, Illinois 62767 (217) 782-4515 Chicago Office 115 S. LaSalle Street, 13th Floor Chicago, Illinois 60603 (312) 814-2420 Illinois Department of Insurance JB PRITZKER Governor ANN GILLESPIE Acting Director TO: All Health Insurance Issuers Writing Individual or Group Accident and Health Insurance, Health Maintenance Organization Health Care Plans, and Voluntary Health Services Plans FROM: Ann Gillespie, Acting Director DATE: February 28, 2025 RE: COMPANY BULLETIN 2025-04 – Applied Behavior Analysis (“ABA”) Licensure Update The Department of Insurance (“Department”) is issuing this Company Bulletin to inform issuers of recent guidance from the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (“DFPR”) that could impact provider credentialing and billing. DFPR’s Division of Professional Regulation (“DPR”) licenses a variety of health care professionals via their new online licensing system, CORE, including Behavior Analysts and Assistant Behavior Analysts. On February 26, 2025, DPR issued pertinent guidance that can be found on their website here and below: Behavior Analyst and Assistant Behavior Analyst licenses were added to IDFPR’s new Comprehensive Online Regulatory Environment (CORE) licensing system in January 2025. Our staff are working hard to process these applications. We appreciate your patience. To ensure our staff have adequate time to process the influx of applications along with other professional applications, IDFPR will not begin enforcement actions for unlicensed practices provided by Behavior Analysts and Assistant Behavior Analysts until Monday, April 21, 2025. The Department encourages issuers to recognize the impact of these licensure delays and make accommodations where appropriate to ensure impacted ABA providers and their behavior analysts can continue to deliver ABA services and ensuring covered enrollees do not encounter disruption or barriers to access to critical care they need. For questions regarding this Company Bulletin, please direct inquiries to DOI.InfoDesk@illinois.gov.