Samuel Rosenberg Co-Sponsored (Introduced) this Legislation.
Title: Authorizes Telehealth Practices
Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Jr.
Title: Authorizes Telehealth Practices
Vote to concur with senate amendments and pass a bill that authorizes certain health care practitioners to establish a practitioner-patient relationship through certain telehealth interactions under certain circumstances.
Authorizes a health care practitioner to establish a practitioner-patient relationship through a telehealth interaction, if the health care practitioner (Sec. 1):
Verifies the identity of the patient receiving health care services through telehealth;
Discloses the healthcare practitioner’s name, contact information, and type of health occupation license held by the health care practitioner to the patient; and
Obtains oral or written consent from the patient or the patient’s legal guardian.
Prohibits a health care practitioner from prescribing an opiate for pain treatment through telehealth, unless (Sec. 1):
The individual receiving the prescription is a patient in a healthcare facility; or
The governor has declared a state of emergency due to a catastrophic health emergency.
Requires a health care practitioner providing telehealth services to provide or refer a patient to in-person health care services or another type of telehealth service, if clinically appropriate for the patient (Sec. 1).
Title: Authorizes Telehealth Practices
Title: Authorizes Telehealth Practices
Title: Authorizes Telehealth Practices