HB 500 - AS INTRODUCED
2023 SESSION
23-0608
09/05
HOUSE BILL 500
AN ACT relative to prescribing opioids via telehealth medicine.
SPONSORS: Rep. Hakken-Phillips, Graf. 12; Rep. J. Murphy, Graf. 12
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill allows practitioners of telehealth medicine to prescribe opioids.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0608
09/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT relative to prescribing opioids via telehealth medicine.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Telemedicine; Out of State Physicians. Amend RSA 329:1-d, III to read as follows:
III. It shall be unlawful for any person to prescribe methadone hydrochloride, as defined in RSA 318-B:10, VII(d)(2) by means of telemedicine. Prescribing other [a] controlled [drug] drugs classified in schedule II through IV by means of telemedicine shall be done in accordance with paragraph IV [, except substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. Methadone hydrochloride, as defined in RSA 318-B:10, VII(d)(2) shall not be included in the exemption].
2 Definitions; Nursing; Telehealth. Amend RSA 326-B:2, XII(a)-(c) to read as follows:
XII.(a) "Telemedicine" means [the use of audio, video, or other electronic media for the purpose of diagnosis, consultation, or treatment] the use of audio, video, or other electronic media and technologies by a licensee in one location to a patient in a different location for the purpose of diagnosis, consultation, or treatment, including the use of synchronous or asynchronous interactions as defined in RSA 310-A:1.
(b) An out-of-state APRN providing services by means of telemedicine shall be deemed to be in the practice of medicine and shall be required to be licensed under this chapter.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person to prescribe Methadone hydrochloride, as defined in RSA 318-B:10, VII(d)(2) by means of telemedicine. Prescribing of other [a] controlled [drug] drugs classified in schedule II through IV [except for use in substance use disorder treatment] by means of telemedicine shall be done in accordance with the requirements of subparagraph XII(d).
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.