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Maryland
Medicaid Program: MD Medical Assistance Program
Program Administrator: MD Dept. of Social Services
Regional Telehealth Resource Center
Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center
PO Box. 800711
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0711
(434) 906-4960 / (855) MATRC4U
www.matrc.org
STATE LAW/REGULATIONS MEDICAID PROGRAM
Definition of telemedicine/telehealth
“Telehealth means the use of telecommunications and “Telemedicine means the delivery of medically
information technologies for the exchange of information necessary services to a participant at an originating site
from one site to another, for the provision of health care by a consulting provider, through the use of technology-
to an individual from a provider through hardwire or assisted communication.”
Internet connection.”
Source: MD Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Maryland
Source: MD Health Occupations Annotated Sec. 2-101 (2012). Medicaid 2014 Telemedicine Provider Manual. September 2014, p.
8.
Telemedicine means, as it relates to the delivery of
health care services, the use of interactive audio, video,
or other telecommunications or electronic technology:
1. By a health care provider to deliver a health
care service that is within the scope of practice
of the health care provider at a site other than
the site at which the patient is located; and
2. That enables the patient to see and interact with
the health care provider at the time the health
care service is provided to the patient.
Source: Health General Code 15-105.2.
“Telemedicine means the practice of medicine from a
distance in which intervention and treatment decisions
and recommendations are based on clinical data,
documents, and information transmitted through
telecommunications systems.”
Source: Code of Maryland Admin. Regs. Sec. 10.32.05.02
“Telemedicine means the delivery of medically
necessary services to a patient at an originating site by
a consulting provider, through the use of technology-
assisted communication.”
Source: Code of Maryland Admin. Regs. Sec. 10.09.49.02.
Live Video Reimbursement
Maryland law requires private insurers to provide Reimbursement for telemedicine is required by Maryland
coverage for telemedicine services (subject to terms and Medical Assistance if the health care service is
conditions of contract), which includes live video. medically necessary and provided:
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