Texas Occupations Code - Section 111.004. Rules
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§ 111.004. RULES. The Texas State Board of Medical
Examiners, in consultation with the commissioner of insurance, as
appropriate, may adopt rules necessary to:
(1) ensure that patients using telemedicine medical
services receive appropriate, quality care;
(2) prevent abuse and fraud in the use of telemedicine
medical services, including rules relating to the filing of claims
and records required to be maintained in connection with
telemedicine medical services;
(3) ensure adequate supervision of health
professionals who are not physicians and who provide telemedicine
medical services;
(4) establish the maximum number of health
professionals who are not physicians that a physician may supervise
through a telemedicine medical service; and
(5) require a face-to-face consultation between a
patient and a physician providing a telemedicine medical service
within a certain number of days following an initial telemedicine
medical service only if the physician has never seen the patient.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, § 22, eff. April 1,
2005. Renumbered from V.T.C.A., Occupations Code § 107.004 by
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 728, § 23.001(69), eff. Sept. 1, 2005.
Section: 110.461 110.501 110.502 110.503 111.001 111.002 111.003 111.004 112.001 112.002 112.051 151.001 151.002 151.003 151.004
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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