Sec. 15.1. Every group health insurance program or self-insurance health plan which provides coverage for services coming within the practice of optometry as defined in th.
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Sec. 15.1. Every group health insurance program or self-insurance health plan which provides coverage for services coming within the practice of optometry as defined in the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987, as now or hereafter amended, shall provide to each member a written notice that such member may elect for optometric services received to be reimbursed to either a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches or to an optometrist licensed in this State.
This Section applies only to persons who become covered by such group insurance program or self-insurance health plan after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1979.