Temporary expansion of access to Telehealth Services to protect the public and health care providers
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This emergency order requires regulated health insurance carriers, authorized health benefit plans, and New Hampshire Medicaid programs to allow in-network providers to deliver clinically appropriate, medically necessary covered services through telehealth. It also establishes payment parity, COVID-19 cost-sharing protections, and no restrictions on eligible originating sites.
Requires applicable health plans to allow in-network providers to deliver medically necessary covered services through all telehealth modalities, including video, audio-only, and other electronic media.
Requires carriers to pay in-network telehealth services at rates no lower than the rates for corresponding traditional in-person services.
Requires coverage without copayments, deductibles, or coinsurance for medically necessary COVID-19 treatment delivered via telehealth by in-network providers.
Removes restrictions on eligible originating sites for telehealth services.
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