Texas Mandates Licensure of Physicians Who Practice Telemedicine
ACR Bulletin
August 1995
Effective September 20, Texas law will require licensure for a physician physically located in another jurisdiction and who performs a patient care service in Texas, including the taking of an x-ray examination that would affect the diagnosis or treatment of the patient.
The only exceptions under the new law are those physicians who are in Texas for consultation with other Texas physicians and who have no place for seeing, examining or treating patients in the state.
Also excluded are medical specialists located in other jurisdictions who provide only episodic consultation services to physicians who practice in the same medical specialty, for instance, radiologists outside of Texas episodically consulting with Texas radiologists, or those physicians outside the state who provide services to a medical school.
Gov. George Bush signed the Medical Practice Act (H.B. 2669) into law on June 16. The new law becomes effective 90 days later.