2014 Senate Bill 1096

Facilitate insurance coverage for telemedicine

Introduced in the Senate

Oct. 1, 2014

Introduced by Sen. Rebekah Warren (D-18)

To revise details of the state law authorizing a comprehensive health insurance regulatory regime, to accommodate health insurance coverage for “asynchronous store and forward action," defined as “transmission of a patient's medical information from an originating site to a health care professional at a distant site for review of the information by the professional at the distant site” at a different time. In other words, telemedicine.

Referred to the Committee on Insurance