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STATE LAW/REGULATIONS MEDICAID PROGRAM

• Nurse practitioner
• Clinical nurse specialist
• Licensed practice nurse under supervision of
RN
• Physician assistant

Source: Code of VT Rules Sec. 13-170-770 & Dept. of VT Health
Access, Provider Manual, p. 152 (Jan. 1, 2015).

Individuals receiving Medicaid telemonitoring must:
• Have Medicaid as primary insurance or be
dually eligible with non-home bound status; and
• Have congestive heart failure; and
• Be clinically eligible for home health services;
and
• Have a physician’s plan of care with an order for
telemonitoring services

Source: Dept. of VT Health Access, Provider Manual, p. 152 (Jan.
1, 2015).
Email/Phone/FAX

No reimbursement for email. No reimbursement for email.
No reimbursement for telephone. No reimbursement for telephone.
No reimbursement for FAX. No reimbursement for FAX.

Source: Dept. of VT Health Access, Provider Manual, p. 116 (Jan.
Source: VT Statutes Annotated, Title 8 Sec. 4100k (2012). 1, 2015).
Online Prescribing

Providers may prescribe, dispense, or administer drugs No reference found.
or medical supplies, or otherwise provide treatment
recommendations if they first examine the patient in
person, or by the use of instrumentation and diagnostic
equipment through which images and medical records
may be transmitted electronically.

Treatment recommendations made via electronic
means, including issuing a prescription via electronic
means, shall be held to the same standards of
appropriate practice as those in traditional provider-
patient settings.

Source: VT Statutes Annotated, Title 18 Sec. 9361 (2012).
Consent

Originating site providers must obtain consent for store No reference found.
and forward tele-ophthalmology or tele-dermatology.

Patients will be informed of the right to receive a consult
with the distant-site provider, and will receive one, upon
request, either at the time of the consult, or within a
reasonable time after notification of the results of the
initial consult.

Receiving tele-dermatology or tele-ophthalmology

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