Page 3 State Telehealth Legislative Updates 2015

2015 State Telemedicine Legislation Tracking (as of 5/27/2015) *

Other Legislation
Legislated Medicaid Affecting
Legislated Parity for Coverage (primarily Telemedicine Access
State Private Coverage interactive video) or Coverage Notes
Michigan ✔

SB 253 - FSMB Compact; HF 850 - Allows for Medicaid
payment for intensive rehabilitative mental health
services via telemedicine; HF 1246, SF 1150, SF 981, HF
1638 - Telehealth parity under private insurance
(STATUS: SIGNED INTO LAW: 5/22/15); HF 1611 -
Authorizes reimbursement for telemedicine under
mental health demo; SF 1700 - restricts using
telemedicine to provide prescriptions for eyeglasses or
Minnesota ✔ ✔ Proposed contact lenses
Mississippi ✔ ✔

SB 230 - Out-of-state telehealth providers and MO
Medicaid; HB 319 - Amends Medicaid policies for
telehealth; HB 320 - School-based telehealth; HB 340 -
Adds school-based health centers to Medicaid
originating site list; HB 965 - Coverage and
reimbursement for home telemonitoring under
Medicaid; HB 1014 - Medicaid coverage of store-and-
forward for orthopedics, dermatology, ophthalmology
in cases of diabetic retinopathy, burn and wound care,
Missouri ✔ Proposed Proposed and maternal-fetal medicine ultrasounds
SB 77 - Repeal telemedicine license and amend
physician scope of practice (SIGNED INTO LAW
3/30/15); HB 429 - FSMB Compact; HB 587 (VETOED
BY GOVERNOR 4/27/2015) - Requires providers to be
physically present when providing certain abortion
Montana ✔ Proposed services

LB 518 - Establishes new health savings program under
Medicaid and includes telephone triage program; LB
37 - Telepharmacy; LB 257 - Telemedicine descriptions
for health plans (STATUS: SIGNED INTO LAW:
Nebraska ✔ Proposed 5/26/15); LB 258 - FSMB Compact
AB 115 - Telepractice standards for speech-language
pathology and audiology; AB 292 and SB 299 -
Telemedicine parity and licensure (STATUS: SIGNED
Nevada ✔ Proposed Proposed INTO LAW: 5/25/15)

SB 84 - Patient-practitioner relationship and APRN
practice standards; HB 232 - Establish community
mental health programs and include telemedicine in a
study on the suicide risk assessment, treatment and
management; SB 112 - Expands parity law to include
New Hampshire ✔ Proposed Medicaid managed care