Lexology July 1, 2020
Last Thursday, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine (BORIM) approved its first permanent telehealth policy. The Board’s policy provides that: (1) a “face-to-face encounter” is not a pre-requisite for a telehealth visit; and (2) the same standard of care applies to both in-person and telehealth encounters. The Board had previously approved this policy on an “interim” basis in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on March 16, 2020.
This policy is an important step for the Massachusetts BORIM as it had previously hesitated to provide any formal guidance on the practice of telehealth. The only Board policy that nominally touched on telehealth was a prescribing policy adopted in 1989 that addressed so-called “pill mills.” The Board updated the policy over...
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