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Remember to Receive Patient Consent for Telehealth Visits

Published on Tue Aug 01, 2023

Question: When doing a telehealth encounter, do you need to ask for telehealth-specific consent for the patient? California Subscriber Answer: During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), many of the regulatory requirements surrounding telehealth encounters were waived, and providers and patients could connect more easily, on widely available platforms like FaceTime, which were not necessarily compliant with HIPAA. Now that [...]
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