Definitions

Definitions A. The Division of Medicaid defines telemedicine as a method which uses electronic information and communication equipment to supply and support health care when remoteness disconnects patients and links primary care physicians, specialists, providers, and beneficiaries which includes, but is not limited to, telehealth services remote patient monitoring services, teleradiology services, store-and-forward, and continuous glucose monitoring services. B. The Division of Medicaid defines a continuous glucose monitoring service as: 1. The download, retrospective review and interpretation of blood glucose values by a physician, physician’s assistant or nurse practitioner when captured for more than seventy-two (72) hours on a continuous glucose monitor system, and 2. Adjunct monitoring, not an alternative, to traditional self-monitoring of blood glucose levels, supplying additional information on glucose trends that are not available from self-monitoring.