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Texas

Medicaid Program: Texas Medicaid

Medicaid Program Administrator: Texas Health and Human Services Commission

Regional Telehealth Resource Center:
TexLa Telehealth Resource Center
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3601 4 Street, Ste. 2B440
Lubbock, TX 79430
(806) 743-4440/(877) 391-0487

STATE LAW/REGULATIONS MEDICAID PROGRAM
Definition of telemedicine/telehealth

Telemedicine is “the use of health care information "Telehealth service" means a health service, other than a
exchanged from one site to another via electronic telemedicine medical service, that is delivered by a
communications for the health and education of the licensed or certified health professional acting within the
individual or provider, and for the purpose of improving scope of the health professional's license or certification
patient care, treatment, and services.” who does not perform a telemedicine medical service and
that requires the use of advanced telecommunications
Source: TX Admin. Code, Title 25 Sec. 412.303. technology, other than telephone or facsimile technology,
including:
Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Telehealth is “the use of telecommunications and • Compressed digital interactive video, audio, or
information technologies for the exchange of information data transmission;
from one site to another for the provision of speech- • Clinical data transmission using computer
language pathology or audiology services to an imaging by way of still-image capture and store
individual from a provider through hardwire or internet and forward; and
connection.” • Other technology that facilitates access to health
care services or medical specialty expertise.
Source: TX Admin. Code, Title 22 Sec. 741.1.
Source: TX Government Code, Sec. 531.001 & TX Admin. Code,
“Telemedicine medical service--A health care service, Title 1 Sec. 354.1430 & TX Medicaid Telecommunication Services
initiated by a physician who is licensed to practice Handbook, pg. 9, (Jan. 2015).
medicine in Texas under Title 3, Subtitle B of the
Occupations Code or provided by a health professional Telemedicine is defined as a health-care service that is
acting under physician delegation and supervision, that either initiated by a physician who is licensed to practice
is provided for purposes of patient assessment by a medicine in Texas or provided by a health professional
health professional, diagnosis or consultation by a who is acting under physician delegation and supervision.
physician, or treatment, or for the transfer of medical Telemedicine is provided for the purpose of the following:
data, and that requires the use of advanced
telecommunications technology, other than telephone or • Client assessment by a health professional
facsimile technology, including: • Diagnosis, consultation or treatment by a
physician
• Compressed digital interactive video, audio, or • Transfer of medical data that requires the use of
data transmission; advanced telecommunications technology, other
• Clinical data transmission using computer than telephone or facsimile, including the
imaging by way of still-image capture and store following: (1) Compressed digital interactive
and forward; and video, audio or data transmission, (2) clinical data
• Other technology that facilitates access to transmission using computer imaging by way of
health care services or medical specialty still-image and store and forward; and (3) Other
expertise.” technology that facilitates access to health-care
services or medical specialty expertise.
Source: TX Admin. Code, Title 1 Sec. 354.1430

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