VA HB 1918

Title: Health insurance; coverage for audio-only telehealth services, definition.
Author: Amanda E. Batten

Summary
Health insurance; coverage for audio-only telehealth services. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage beginning January 1, 2024, for the cost of health care services provided through audio-only telehealth services, defined in the bill as counseling interventions designed to facilitate a patient's achievement of human development goals and remediate mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders and associated distresses that interfere with mental health and development by a mental health professional delivered to a patient via audio-only means when no other means of real-time two-way audio-visual or other telecommunications or electronic communications are available and operational to the patient or the patient does not have the capability to use such real-time two-way means of communication. The bill requires that prescribing of controlled substances via audio-only telehealth services comply with state requirements for prescribing controlled substances and all applicable federal law.

Status
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (15-Y 0-N)

Bill Documents
VA HB 1918 - Printed as engrossed 23104173D-E
2023-01-10 - VA HB 1918 (Printed as engrossed 23104173D-E)

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VA HB 1918 - Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104173D
2023-01-10 - VA HB 1918 (Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104173D)

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VA HB 1918 - House amendments adopted
2023-01-10 - VA HB 1918 (House amendments adopted)

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VA HB 1918 - House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
2023-01-10 - VA HB 1918 (House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted)

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VA HB 1918 - House committee amendments reported
2023-01-10 - VA HB 1918 (House committee amendments reported)

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