Telehealth rules in Michigan

1. 01 · Prescribing

   Every prescription travels electronically

   The state's electronic prescribing mandate reaches all prescriptions rather than controlled substances alone, so a non-controlled weight, skin or hair prescription is transmitted the same way a scheduled drug is. Paper becomes an exception to justify rather than a routine alternative.

   Source: Center for Connected Health Policy: Michigan

   Across the border

   • Ohio

     Ohio has no all-drug mandate and puts its distinctive limit elsewhere, requiring an in-person examination before a Schedule II prescription rather than governing how any prescription is sent.

     Source: Ohio Admin. Code 4731-11-09

   • Indiana

     Indiana leaves transmission alone and restricts the drug itself, barring opioids prescribed through telehealth except partial agonists used to treat opioid dependence.

     Source: Indiana Code title 25

   • Wisconsin

     Wisconsin imposes no transmission mandate of this breadth, and the sharpest constraint on a prescriber there is the private action a patient holds over a records disclosure made without consent.

     Source: Wis. Stat. 146.82

2. 02 · Practice

   No consent, no telehealth service

   Mich. Comp. Laws 333.16284 puts the duty in the negative: a health professional shall not provide a telehealth service without first obtaining consent. The service is prohibited rather than merely irregular where the consent is missing, and the consent is documented in the record.

   Source: Mich. Comp. Laws 333.16284

   Across the border

   • Ohio

     Ohio requires a telehealth provider to meet the same standards as in person and to give the patient defined information, framing the duty as content to deliver rather than as a prohibition on the service.

     Source: Ohio Rev. Code 4743.09

   • Indiana

     Indiana runs directly the other way, providing that a separate additional written health care consent for telehealth cannot be required, and accepting verbal or electronic consent instead.

     Source: Indiana Code title 16

   • Wisconsin

     Wisconsin makes consent recurring rather than prohibitive, asking providers to obtain and document it annually as an understanding of the patient's right to decline telehealth.

     Source: Center for Connected Health Policy: Wisconsin

3. 03 · Practice

   Remote care cannot be rationed harder

   Mich. Comp. Laws 400.105h stops the medical assistance and Healthy Michigan programs from imposing quantity or dollar maximums for services delivered by telemedicine that are more restrictive than those imposed on comparable in-person services.

   Source: Mich. Comp. Laws 400.105h

   Across the border

   • Ohio

     Ohio sets no equivalent bar on quantity limits, and its telehealth statute concentrates on the standard of care and on who may deliver the service rather than on how much of it a payer must allow.

     Source: Ohio Rev. Code 4743.09

   • Indiana

     Indiana's parallel provision is geographic rather than numerical, prohibiting distance restrictions and confirming that a telehealth-only provider needs no physical address in the state.

     Source: Indiana Code title 12

   • Wisconsin

     Wisconsin frames its limits around modality and relationship instead, defining a patient-initiated electronic visit as a seven-day thread with a provider the patient already knows.

     Source: Center for Connected Health Policy: Wisconsin

1. 01

   Direct or indirect consent

   The program rules accept either direct or indirect consent from the patient, provided it is properly documented in the record in accordance with applicable standards of practice.

   Source: Center for Connected Health Policy: Michigan

2. 02

   No general in-person requirement

   There is no state statute requiring a prior in-person visit before telehealth, so a brand's first-visit design is bounded by the clinician's standard of care rather than by a fixed modality rule.

   Source: Center for Connected Health Policy: Michigan

3. 03

   Some services keep a tether

   Therapy re-evaluations are the exception, requiring prior in-person evaluation or treatment by the same clinic, which matters for any brand delivering physical or occupational therapy remotely.

   Source: Center for Connected Health Policy: Michigan

1. 01

   The patient's state decides

   The insurance code ties the license to the state where the patient is located, which settles the question for a clinician sitting elsewhere without requiring a separate telehealth analysis.

   Source: Mich. Comp. Laws 500.3476

2. 02

   Two compacts, not many

   Membership covers the medical compact and the psychology compact, which is narrower than several neighbouring states and matters when a brand staffs counselling, therapy or nursing roles here.

   Source: Center for Connected Health Policy: Michigan

3. 03

   Nurse practitioners work under delegation

   The American Association of Nurse Practitioners classes this as a restricted practice state, so a nurse practitioner needs physician supervision, delegation or team management for at least some elements of care.

   Source: AANP: full practice authority brief

4. 04

   Limited licensure exceptions

   Limited licensure exceptions exist for particular professions with their own conditions, but there is no general telehealth credential that would let a clinician licensed elsewhere treat patients here.

   Source: Center for Connected Health Policy: Michigan

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