Georgia Telehealth Regulations and Laws

Georgia has robust minimum standards of practice while providing treatment or consultation recommendations via telehealth. Notably, patients treated by telehealth must be given the name, credentials, and emergency contact information for the Georgia licensed practitioner providing the treatment.

Georgia has robust minimum standards of practice for establishing the practitioner-patient relationship via telehealth. Notably, the practitioner must be able to examine the patient using technology or peripherals that are equal or superior to an examination done personally by a provider within that provider’s standard of care.

Georgia does not have any laws or regulations specific to prescribing non controlled substances via telemedicine. However, in most cases, providers working through telecommunication platforms generally cannot prescribe controlled substances.

Georgia does not specify any particular conditions or requirements for informed patient consent around telehealth visits.

Georgia does not specify any particular requirements for how a provider should verify patient identification before treating a patient via telehealth.

Georgia state law does not specify any particular conditions or requirements for medical records around telehealth visits.

Georgia is a member of the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC). The NLC allows nurses to practice in other NLC states without having to obtain additional licenses.

There is a payment parity law for telehealth administered in Georgia, which means that patients will pay the same rate they do for specific types of telehealth services that they do for in-person care.

In the state of Georgia, the healthcare providers allowed to offer telehealth services include:

• Physicians

• Physician assistants

• Mental health professionals

• Nurse practitioners

• Behavioral health specialists

• Social workers