Florida House Bill 793 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Failed on March 10 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-10 - Died in Health Quality Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Encourages state group health insurance program to offer health insurance plans that include telehealth coverage; authorizes AHCA to pay for certain telehealth services as optional Medicaid services; defines terms; establishes standard of care for telehealth providers; authorizing use of telehealth to perform patient evaluations; provides that telehealth providers, under certain circumstances, are not required to research patient's history or conduct physical exam before providing services; provides situations when use of telehealth is not deemed to be practicing medicine without a license; authorizes certain providers to use telehealth to prescribe specified controlled substances; provides construction; requires DOH to develop & disseminate educational materials to specified licenses; provides recordkeeping requirements; provides patient consent requirements; encourages certain insurers to include services provided through telehealth under certain conditions.

Telehealth

Sen. Ralph Massullo [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-10	House	Died in Health Quality Subcommittee
2018-03-10	House	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2018-01-09	House	Introduced
2017-12-08	House	Referred to Health Quality Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee
2017-11-22	House	Filed

S280 (Same As) 2018-03-10 - Died in Messages

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
110	123		Amended Code	See Bill Text
409	906		Amended Code	See Bill Text
456	4501		Amended Code	See Bill Text
627	0915		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/793
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/793/BillText/Filed/PDF