Bill Text: IN SB0554 | 2013 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Telehealth and telemedicine services reimbursement under Medicaid.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-3)
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-13 - Public Law 204 [SB0554 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2013-SB0554-Engrossed.html
Citations Affected: IC 12-7; IC 12-15; noncode.
Synopsis: Telehealth and telemedicine services under Medicaid.
Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning to reimburse: (1)
a home health agency for telehealth services; and (2) a federally
qualified health center, a rural health clinic, a community mental health
center, and a critical access hospital for telemedicine services; under
the Medicaid program. Requires the health finance commission to
study issues concerning extending telehealth and telemedicine services
under the Medicaid program for noncritical access hospitals.
Effective: July 1, 2013.
Miller Patricia, Charbonneau, Grooms, Hershman, Tallian, Randolph
(HOUSE SPONSORS _ BACON, BROWN C, BROWN T, PORTER)
January 14, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Provider
Services.
February 7, 2013, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass; reassigned to Committee on
Appropriations.
February 21, 2013, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
February 25, 2013, read second time, ordered engrossed. Engrossed.
February 26, 2013, read third time, passed. Yeas 50, nays 0.
March 5, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Health.
March 18, 2013, amended, reported _ Do Pass.
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Medicaid.
(b) As used in this section, "telemedicine services" means a
specific method of delivery of services, including medical exams
and consultations and behavioral health evaluations and treatment,
including those for substance abuse, using videoconferencing
equipment to allow a provider to render an examination or other
service to a patient at a distant location. The term does not include
the use of the following:
(1) A telephone transmitter for transtelephonic monitoring.
(2) A telephone or any other means of communication for the
consultation from one (1) provider to another provider.
(c) The office shall reimburse a Medicaid provider who is
licensed as a home health agency under IC 16-27-1 for telehealth
services.
(d) The office shall reimburse the following Medicaid providers
for telemedicine services, regardless of the distance between the
provider and the patient:
(1) A federally qualified health center (as defined in 42 U.S.C.
1396d(l)(2)(B)).
(2) A rural health clinic (as defined in 42 U.S.C. 1396d(l)(1)).
(3) A community mental health center certified under
IC 12-21-2-3(5)(C).
(4) A critical access hospital that meets the criteria under 42
CFR 485.601 et seq.
(e) The office may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 necessary to
implement and administer this section.
(b) The definitions in IC 12-15-5-11, as added by this act, apply to this SECTION.
(c) The commission shall study during the 2013 legislative interim issues concerning extending telehealth services and telemedicine services under the Medicaid program for noncritical access hospitals, including private psychiatric hospitals.
(d) This SECTION expires December 31, 2013.
