160.989 Licensure Requirement for Providing Medical Advice Through Telemedicine:
MSSNY will urge the New York State Board of Medicine to require full New York State licensure for an individual providing medical advice through the technology of Telemedicine from in or out of state for patients under treatment in New York State. Such medical advice requiring full licensure would entail the performance of an act that is part of a patient care service initiated in this state and affecting the diagnosis or treatment of the patient. Excluded from this full licensure requirement would be traditional informal physician-to-physician consultations (“curbside consultations”) that are provided without expectation of compensation. MSSNY will recommend further monitoring and study of the areas of Telemedicine encompassing confidentiality of patient information, professional liability, coding and reimbursement, and will seek the development of legislation and/or regulation requiring the full New York State licensure of Medical Directors and physicians employed by managed care systems or other health insurers in or out of state who make decisions which affect medical care. (Council 10/24/96; Reaffirmed HOD 2014; Reaffirmed HOD 2024)
