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Telemedicine in NJ: The Future of Healthcare I Deborah Nappi n our new digital age with sophisticated smart de- vices and high-quality transmission technology, we now have the capabilities to push through profound changes within the healthcare industry that will benefit both patients and health care providers while ensuring the same standard of care. On July 21, 2017 Governor Chris Christie signed into law Senate Bill S291, authoriz- ing New Jersey health care providers to offer telemedicine services to patients in New Jersey. According to the Act, this means that healthcare ser- vices may be provided to clients “using electronic communica- tions, information technology or other electronic or techno- logical means to bridge the gap between a health care provider who is located at a distant site and a patient who is located at an originating site”. The move to telemedicine services is progressive as physi- cians can now provide clinical

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health care from a distance. Telemedicine services can only be provided by licensed, certi- fied or registered health care professionals through interac- tive, real-time, two-way com- munication technologies. This specifically does not include audio-only telephone conversations, e-mail, instant messaging, faxing or texting. Telemedicine services for both primary and specialty care can be provided to new patients without an initial in-person visit, but will require identifica- tion of the provider and patient, and the provider must review the patient’s medical history and available patient medical records prior to the initial en- counter. This also applies to the issuance of prescriptions of most

medications, treatment and consultation recommendations. For both patient encounters and the prescribing of medication, a determination must be made that the same standard of care will be provided to the patient via telemedicine as would be provided with an in-office visit. For payments to the provid- ers, the Act requires that the various government payers, along with the private insur- ance payers provide coverage for telemedicine services on the same basis as services delivered in-person. However, it is stated that the reimbursement rate for telemedicine cannot exceed the in-person provider reimburse- ment rate. To begin with telemedicine continued on page 8A

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