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This bill enacts the uniform telehealth act, which establishes guidelines for the provision of telehealth services to patients located in Washington state. The key provisions include: 1. Defining important terms like "telehealth", "health care practitioner", and "professional practice standards." 2. Authorizing health care practitioners to provide telehealth services to patients in Washington, as long as they comply with the practitioner's scope of practice and professional standards in the state. 3. Allowing out-of-state health care practitioners to provide certain types of telehealth services to Washington patients, such as consultations and follow-up care. 4. Specifying that the location of care is the patient's location, and that venue for civil actions related to telehealth services is the patient's county of residence. 5. Giving disciplining authorities the ability to adopt rules to implement and enforce the act. 6. Amending an existing law to have the Collaborative for the Advancement of Telehealth review a proposal for out-of-state providers to register in Washington to provide telehealth services.

Health and Social Services

https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5481&Year=2023&Initiative=false