HEA 1263 Summary

• Amends IC 12-15-27-2 to require the Secretary of Family and Social Services to provide Medicaid, Healthy Indiana Plan, and Children's Health Insurance Program data to the Legislative Services Agency upon request for fiscal impact analysis and program evaluation, with identifiers redacted or substituted with unique numbers for privacy.

• Establishes new Chapter IC 25-1-9.5 effective July 1, 2016, defining telemedicine as delivery of health care services using secure videoconferencing, interactive audio with store-and-forward technology, or remote patient monitoring between a provider and patient in different locations.

• Requires providers (physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, and optometrists) offering telemedicine to establish a provider-patient relationship meeting minimum standards including patient identification, informed consent, medical history, diagnosis discussion, medical record creation, and a visit summary before issuing prescriptions.

• Prohibits telemedicine prescriptions for controlled substances, abortion-inducing drugs, and ophthalmic devices (glasses, contact lenses, low vision devices); allows prescriptions without prior in-person contact if applicable standard of care is satisfied.

• Requires out-of-state providers to certify in writing to the Indiana professional licensing agency that they agree to submit to Indiana court jurisdiction and substantive/procedural laws for claims arising from telemedicine services to Indiana patients.