Resources

Three reference works and a growing set of state guides. This is the part of the site people bookmark.

The law, from the top down

Telehealth laws is the framework. It explains how federal and state rules fit together: who licenses clinicians, who regulates prescribing, where HIPAA applies, how Medicare and Medicaid set coverage, and where the corporate practice of medicine and fraud-and-abuse rules come in. Read it first if you are new to the legal side. Everything else assumes it.

Telemedicine laws by state is the national map. It is the successor to the state law surveys the original Telemedicine Today published, and the page that legacy academic citations still resolve to. It covers licensure, compacts, prescribing, consent, and Medicaid across the states at the level of pattern and exception.

The state guides

The state law guides go one state at a time and one level deeper: the actual statute, the board rule, the Medicaid policy, and the parity law, with the source linked. Each guide answers the same questions in the same order so states can be compared side by side. Guides are published only after they have been researched and sourced. States without a guide yet are marked as in progress.

The cross-state licensing tracker is a reference table for the interstate compacts. It shows which states belong to the physician, nursing, psychology, physical therapy, and counseling compacts, with the effective date and enacting bill read off each compact's own commission. Compacts that have not been verified against a primary source are marked as unverified rather than filled in from memory.

The glossary

The telehealth glossary defines the field's terms in plain English: the difference between telehealth and telemedicine, synchronous and asynchronous care, originating and distant sites, the modifiers and place-of-service codes, and the acronyms that policy documents assume you know. Link to it from your own training materials if it helps.

How these pages are maintained

Every resource shows a published date and an updated date. Volatile items, especially anything touching Medicare flexibilities or DEA prescribing, are written to describe the rule and tell you to verify current status rather than to assert a date that may have moved since the page was written. When a rule changes, the page is updated and the date moves.

If you find something out of date, tell us. Corrections are how reference pages stay reference pages.