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Directive Implementing Executive Orders 2-2020 and 3-2020 (expanded telehealth)

Directive Implementing Executive Orders 2-2020 and 3-2020 and providing for expanded telehealth

Governor Steve Bullock · Montana (State)

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Jurisdiction
Montana
Level
State
Authority
Mont. Code Ann. 10-3-104(2)(a); 10-3-118; 33-22-138
Issued
2020-03-20 Mar. 20, 2020
Effective
2020-03-20
End
End of the emergency; re-issued in substance Feb. 12, 2021 to June 30, 2021 (MT-021) (read as 2021-02-12)
In force
Mar. 20, 2020 to Feb. 12, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
Limitation types
Health care orders
Addressees
  • health care professionals
  • health insurers
  • licensing boards
Functions reached
  • TM telehealth under waivers
  • CL clinical intake (in-person visits displaced)
  • CB payers (parity)
Collection
Montana MT

Operative words

providing for expanded telehealth (title); health care professionals permitted to deliver telemedicine by all modes including audio-only with coverage 'equivalent to the coverage for services that are provided in person' (text as carried into MT-021)

Enforcement

Mont. Code Ann. 10-3-104(2)(a) suspension of board telehealth rules

Notes

Recites shortages of health care and mental health practitioners in a majority of Montana counties

Retrieval note

State file name carries '3 23 20'; the Directive is dated March 20, 2020.