Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-7. Telemedicine data reporting
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Each health insurer shall collect and provide to the office of the health insurance commissioner (OHIC), in a form and frequency acceptable to OHIC, information and data reflecting its telemedicine policies, practices, and experience. OHIC shall provide this information and data to the general assembly on or before January 1, 2022, and on or before each January 1 thereafter.
History of Section.
P.L. 2021, ch. 184, § 2, effective July 6, 2021; P.L. 2021, ch. 199, § 2, effective July 6, 2021.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-7
- Health insurer: means any person, firm, or corporation offering and/or insuring healthcare services on a prepaid basis, including, but not limited to, a nonprofit service corporation, a health maintenance organization, the Rhode Island Medicaid program, including its contracted managed care entities, or an entity offering a policy of accident and sickness insurance. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
- Telemedicine: means the delivery of clinical healthcare services by use of real time, two-way synchronous audio, video, telephone-audio-only communications or electronic media or other telecommunications technology including, but not limited to: online adaptive interviews, remote patient monitoring devices, audiovisual communications, including the application of secure video conferencing or store-and-forward technology to provide or support healthcare delivery, which facilitate assessment, diagnosis, counseling and prescribing treatment, and care management of a patient's health care while such patient is at an originating site and the healthcare provider is at a distant site, consistent with applicable federal laws and regulations. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3