The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Pennsylvania
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- 35 Pa.C.S. § 7301(f); licensing acts of the BPOA boards
- Issued
- 2020-03-18 Mar. 18, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-18
- End
- Continued by Act 21 of 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021 and by Act 73 to Mar. 31, 2022 (BPOA suspensions in effect Sept. 30, 2021) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Mar. 18, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersOther
- Addressees
- health care practitioners licensed under any BPOA board; out-of-State practitioners
- Functions reached
- TM telehealth
- CL clinical intake converted to remote
- HR out-of-State practitioner licensure
- Collection
- Pennsylvania PA
Operative words
Pennsylvania Authorizes Licensed Health Care Professionals to Provide Services via Telemedicine During Coronavirus Emergency... [the Governor granted the Department of State's request to allow practitioners] licensed under any of the Department of State's Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs (BPOA) licensing boards to provide services to patients via telemedicine during the coronavirus emergency.... Currently no Pennsylvania statute authorizes or prohibits the practice of telemedicine.
Enforcement
Notes
The Department's own summary of the suspension; for the physician, dental, behavioral-health and allied-health memoranda.