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Center for Connected Health Policy
Iowa
Medicaid Program: Iowa Medicaid Enterprise (IME)
Program Administrator: IA Dept. of Human Services
Regional Telehealth Resource Center:
Great Plains Telehealth Resource and Assistance Center
University of Minnesota/Institute for Health Informatics
330 Diehl Hall
505 Essex Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(888) 239-7092
www.gptrac.org
STATE LAW/REGULATIONS MEDICAID PROGRAM
Definition of telemedicine/telehealth
“Telemedicine means use of a telecommunications No reference found.
system for diagnostic, clinical, consultative, data, and
educational services for the delivery of health care
services or related health care activities by licensed
health care professionals, licensed medical
professionals, and staff who function under the direction
of a physician, a licensed health care professional, or
hospital, for the purpose of developing a
comprehensive, statewide telemedicine network or
education.”
Source: IA Admin. Code, 751 7.1(8D) (2012).
Live Video Reimbursement
No reference found. No reference found.
Store and Forward Reimbursement
No reference found. No reference found.
Remote Patient Monitoring Reimbursement
No reference found. No reference found.
Email/Phone/FAX
No reference found. No reference found.
Online Prescribing
Pharmacists are prohibited from dispensing prescription No reference found.
drugs if the pharmacist knows or should have known
that the prescription was issued solely on the basis of
an Internet-based questionnaire, an Internet-based
consult, or a telephone consult, and was completed
without a pre-existing patient-provider relationship.
Source: IA Admin. Code, 657 8.19(124,126,155A) (2012).
A physician must be physically present with a woman at
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