Bill Text: MI SB1059 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Insurance; health insurers; telemedicine; include asynchronous store and forward action as method of interaction. Amends sec. 3476 of 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.3476).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-07 - Referred To Committee On Insurance [SB1059 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB1059-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 1059
June 7, 2018, Introduced by Senators WARREN, NOFS and HANSEN and referred to the Committee on Insurance.
A bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled
"The insurance code of 1956,"
by amending section 3476 (MCL 500.3476), as amended by 2017 PA 223.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 3476. (1) An insurer that delivers, issues for delivery,
or renews in this state a health insurance policy shall not require
face-to-face contact between a health care professional and a
patient
for services appropriately provided through telemedicine. ,
as
determined by the insurer. Telemedicine
services must be
provided by a health care professional who is licensed, registered,
or otherwise authorized to engage in his or her health care
profession
in the this state. where the patient is located.
Telemedicine services are subject to all terms and conditions of
the
health insurance policy agreed upon on between the policy
holder and the insurer, including, but not limited to, required
copayments, coinsurances, deductibles, and approved amounts.
Telemedicine services may be used to establish a physician-patient
relationship.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) "Asynchronous store and forward action" means the
transmission of a patient's medical information from an originating
site to a health care professional at a distant site for review of
the information by the professional at the distant site without a
synchronous interaction.
(b) "Distant site" means the location of the health care
professional when providing telemedicine services to the patient.
(c) (a)
After December 31, 2017,
"insurer" includes a
nonprofit dental care corporation operating under 1963 PA 125, MCL
550.351 to 550.373.
(d) "Originating site" means either of the following, as
applicable:
(i) The location of the patient when receiving telemedicine
services from the health care professional.
(ii) The location where the asynchronous store and forward
action originates.
(e) "Synchronous interaction" means a real-time interaction
between a patient receiving telemedicine services at an originating
site and a health care professional delivering telemedicine
services from a distant site.
(f) (b)
"Telemedicine" means the
use of an electronic media to
link
patients with health care professionals in different
locations.
To be considered telemedicine under this section, the
health
care professional must be able to examine the patient via a
real-time,
interactive audio or video, or both, telecommunications
system
and the patient must be able to interact with the off-site
health
care professional at the time the services are provided.the
use of interactive audio-visual or other telecommunications
technology by a health care professional to deliver health care
services, including prescriptions, between a distant site and an
originating site for diagnosis and treatment of a patient.
(g) "Telemedicine services" means health care services
provided through telemedicine, including services provided through
a synchronous interaction or asynchronous store and forward action.
