{"id":"VT-064","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Vermont","state":"VT","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Department of Financial Regulation, Commissioner Michael S. Pieciak","authority":"2020 Acts and Resolves No. 91; 8 V.S.A. § 4100k; 3 V.S.A. § 844 (emergency rules)","instrument":"Emergency Rule H-2020-02-E","title":"Coverage of Health Care Services Delivered Through Telehealth, Telephone, or Store and Forward Means","dateIssued":"2020-03-16","effective":"2020-03-16 \u0027for the duration of the state of emergency\u0027","end":"Rescinded and superseded by H-2020-06-E (Oct. 23, 2020) (VT-068 § 1(c))","startDate":"2020-03-16","endDate":"2020-10-23","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4"],"types":["HC","OTHER"],"addressees":["all health insurance plans","workers\u0027 compensation insurance carriers","health care providers"],"clause":"Where clinically appropriate, all health insurance plans and workers\u0027 compensation insurance carriers shall provide coverage for all health care services delivered remotely through telehealth or audio-only telephone by a health care provider at a distant site to a patient at an originating site to the same extent that the plan would cover the services if they were provided through in-person consultation... Health insurance plans and workers\u0027 compensation insurance carriers may require providers to use telemedicine when clinically appropriate, available, and feasible.","enforcement":"DFR insurance regulation and market conduct (8 V.S.A. § 11; 18 V.S.A. § 9401)","functions":["TM telehealth","IN insurance operations","CL clinical intake (remote)","CB payers"],"notes":"The rule recites the emergency \u0027declared... on March 16, 2020\u0027 (the declaration is dated March 13); § 5(b) store-and-forward provisions from May 1, 2020.","sourceUrl":"https://dfr.vermont.gov/sites/finreg/files/regbul/dfr-regulation-health-h-2020-02-e-telehealth-withdrawn.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":703513,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"VT","url":"/library/VT-064","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/VT-064","citation":"Department of Financial Regulation, Commissioner Michael S. Pieciak, Emergency Rule H-2020-02-E (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. VT-064)","stateName":"Vermont","related":["VT-068","VT-045"]}