Telehealth:  IPS helped ensure that the telehealth reimbursement that began during the pandemic, remain in place post-pandemic.

Collaborative Care Codes: IPS has helped with the implementation of the collaborative care bill. The system is up and running and new codes that integrate behavioral and physical health care are now being reimbursed.

Uniform Prior Authorization: IPS was successful at writing and advocating for the passage of legislation to streamline the prior authorization process.

Eating Disorders in Parity Law: IPS successfully lobbyied to add eating disorders to the list of mental illnesses covered by the Illinois Parity law.

Network Adequacy and Transparency Act: IPSbsuccessfully lobbied to require insurance company networks meet patients' needs with ample network service providers and updated provider directories.

Prescribing Psychologist: The fight continues for patient safety.  IPS consistently opposes expanding licensure of psychologists to prescribe medication and played a crucial role in the rule-making process of the current law, enforcing safe educational standards. As new amendments come up, IPS continues to stand for quality care and patient safety, and will work tirelessly to educate elected officials and the public on the dangers of expanding prescriptive authority to mental health professionals with inadequate medical training.

Step Therapy: IPS successfully lobbied to retain an insurance plan’s step therapy program, while providing for an exceptions process when clinically appropriate.  It also applies to medical exceptions procedures.

Prison Medicaid: IPS introduced, lobbyied for, and passed a bill that requires an offender's Medicaid benefits reinstated immediately upon discharge.