FL H0505

Requires health insurers, corporations, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for telemedicine services (interactive audio, video, or electronic media for diagnosis, consultation, or treatment) delivered on or after July 1, 2011.

Prohibits insurers from excluding services from coverage solely because they are delivered through telemedicine rather than face-to-face consultation, and requires reimbursement for diagnosis, consultation, and treatment services on the same basis as in-person services.

Allows insurers to impose deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance for telemedicine services only if they do not exceed the amounts applicable to the same services provided in-person, and prohibits separate annual or lifetime dollar maximums.

Authorizes physicians and osteopathic physicians to provide diagnostic services through electronic means directly to established patients who have previously had an in-person physical examination, except those practicing in pain-management clinics.

Effective January 1, 2012, makes eligible individuals with chronic conditions eligible for medical assistance providing health home services under the Medicaid state plan or waivers.