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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Vermont
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- 2020 Acts and Resolves No. 91; 8 V.S.A. § 4100k; 3 V.S.A. § 844 (emergency rules)
- Issued
- 2020-03-16 Mar. 16, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-16 'for the duration of the state of emergency' (read as 2020-03-16)
- End
- Rescinded and superseded by H-2020-06-E (Oct. 23, 2020) (VT-068 § 1(c)) (read as 2020-10-23)
- In force
- Mar. 16, 2020 to Oct. 23, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersOther
- Addressees
- all health insurance plans
- workers' compensation insurance carriers
- health care providers
- Functions reached
- TM telehealth
- IN insurance operations
- CL clinical intake (remote)
- CB payers
- Collection
- Vermont VT
Operative words
Where clinically appropriate, all health insurance plans and workers' 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' 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)
Notes
The rule recites the emergency 'declared... on March 16, 2020' (the declaration is dated March 13); § 5(b) store-and-forward provisions from May 1, 2020.
Retrieval noteCopy bears a 'WITHDRAWN OCTOBER 23, 2020' watermark; DFR listing gives the March 16, 2020 date.