• creates s. s. 456.4503, F.S.;
  

• requiring specified practitioners providing telemedicine services to patients in this state to be licensed in this state;
• providing certain exceptions for emergency services and consultations; authorizing non-Florida licensed physicians to meet alternative requirements;
• requiring pertinent records to be made available upon request;
• requiring other health care providers to be supervised by a telemedicine provider;
• providing continuing education requirements for telemedicine providers;
• establishing venue; providing applicability;
• authorizing the licensing boards to adopt rules;

• creates s. 456.4504, F.S.;
  

• providing standards and prohibitions for the provision of telemedicine services;
  
• prohibiting nonemergency prescribing of a legend drug without a physical examination;
• prohibiting the prescription of a controlled substance for chronic nonmalignant pain using telemedicine;
  

• creates s. 456.4505, F.S.;
  

• authorizing the use of telemedicine services in the diagnosis and treatment of the human eye;
  
• providing requirements for the use of automated equipment;
  
• requiring the owner or lessee of the automated equipment to maintain specified liability insurance under certain circumstances;
  
• prohibiting prescriptions for spectacles or contact lens based solely on the use of an autorefractor;
  

• creates s. 456.4506, F.S.;
  

• providing requirements for reimbursement of telemedicine services under the Medicaid program;
• requiring a report to the Legislature on the usage and costs of telemedicine in Medicaid by a certain date;
• providing for future repeal;

• amends s. 409.967, F.S.;
  

• prohibiting a managed care plan under Medicaid from using telemedicine providers that are not physicians;

• amends ss. 627.645 and 641.185, F.S.;
  

• prohibiting the denial of a claim for payment for medical services based on a medical necessity determination conducted via telemedicine unless the determination is made by a physician;
• providing an effective date.