Florida House Bill 167 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Failed on May 2 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-05-02 - Died in Health Innovation Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Defines "telemedicine services"; prohibits health insurance policy or Medicaid from requiring face-to-face contact between health care provider & patient as prerequisite to coverage or reimbursement for services; clarifies that use of telemedicine technology under supervision of another health care practitioner may not be interpreted as practicing medicine without license; authorizes DOH to adopt rules; requires department to repeal any rule that prohibits use of telemedicine; requires department to conduct study on options for implementing telemedicine for certain services; requires DOH to submit report to Legislature.

Telemedicine

Rep. Mia Jones [D]

Sen. Janet Cruz [D]

Sen. Darryl Rouson [D]

Rep. Alan Williams [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-05-02	House	Died in Health Innovation Subcommittee
2014-03-04	House	Introduced
2013-11-05	House	Referred to Health Innovation Subcommittee; Insurance and Banking Subcommittee; Appropriations Committee; Health and Human Services Committee
2013-10-11	House	Filed

S0070 (Similar To) 2014-05-02 - Died in Health Policy
H0751 (Similar To) 2014-05-02 - Died in Health and Human Services Committee
S1646 (Similar To) 2014-05-02 - Died in Appropriations

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/167
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/0167/BillText/Filed/PDF