Insurance Bureau Bulletin Summarizes Telehealth Law

Legislation enacted in June eliminated the distinction between telehealth services and telephonic services, the Maine Insurance Bureau said in a recent bulletin. Telehealth services have been authorized for at least a decade, the bureau said. As a result of LD 791, however, telephonic services are considered a subset of telehealth, the bureau said in a statement Thursday. “This does not mean that all phone calls between patients and providers are now considered ‘telehealth’ for purposes of provider reimbursement,” the department said in Bulletin 459. “However, t...