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STATE LAW/REGULATIONS MEDICAID PROGRAM

Source: Utah Medicaid Provider Manual: Home Health Agencies,
p. 18-20 (Jan. 2015).

Patients must need more than two home health agency
visits per week. Telehealth home health services are
limited to diabetic monitoring and education.
The agency must provide at least two in-person visits
per week by a home health nurse, and may use
telehealth home health services only as a supplement to
the in-person visits.

Source: UT Admin. Code R414-42-3.
Email/Phone/FAX

No reference found. No reference found.
Online Prescribing

Providers must first obtain information in the usual No reference found.
course of professional practice that is sufficient to
establish a diagnosis, to identify conditions, and to
identify potential risks to the proposed treatment.

Internet-based questionnaires or interactions on toll-free
telephone numbers, when there exists no other bona
fide patient-practitioner relationship or bona fide referral
by a practitioner involved in an existing patient-
practitioner relationship, are prohibited.

Source: UT Code Annotated Sec. 58-1-501.
Consent
No reference found. No reference found.
Location

No reference found. Rural Health Clinics may serve as an originating site for
telehealth services. They are not allowed to serve as a
distant site.

Source: UT Rural Health Clinics and FQHC Medicaid Manual, pg.
6, (Apr. 2014).
Cross-State Licensing
An out-of-state physician may practice without a Utah No reference found.
license if:

• The physician is licensed in another state, with
no licensing action pending and at least 10
years of professional experience;
• The services are rendered as a public service
and for a noncommercial purpose;
• No fee or other consideration of value is
charged, expected or contemplated, beyond an
amount necessary to cover the proportionate
cost of malpractice insurance;

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