(a) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of 30-3-7 of this code, relating to the West Virginia Board of Medicine (Licensing and Disciplinary Procedures: Physicians, Podiatric Physicians and Surgeons, 11 CSR 01A), is authorized.
(b) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of 30-3E-3 of this code, modified by the West Virginia Board of Medicine to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 2, 2021, relating to the West Virginia Board of Medicine (Licensure, Practice Requirements, Disciplinary and Complaint Procedures, Continuing Education, Physician Assistants, 11 CSR 01B), is authorized.
(c) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of 30-3-7 of this code, modified by the West Virginia Board of Medicine to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on October 25, 2021, relating to the West Virginia Board of Medicine (Dispensing of Prescription Drugs by Practitioners, 11 CSR 05), is authorized.
(d) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of 30-3-7 of this code, relating to the West Virginia Board of Medicine (Continuing Education for Physicians and Podiatric Physicians, 11 CSR 06), is authorized.
(e) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of 60A-9-5a of this code, modified by the West Virginia Board of Medicine to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on October 25, 2021, relating to the West Virginia Board of Medicine (Practitioner Requirements for Accessing the West Virginia Controlled Substances Monitoring Program Database, 11 CSR 10), is authorized.
(f) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of 30-3-7 of this code, modified by the Board of Medicine to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on October 25, 2021, relating to the West Virginia Board of Medicine (Establishment and Regulation of Limited License to Practice Medicine and Surgery at Certain State Veterans Nursing Home Facilities, 11 CSR 11), is authorized.
(g) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of 30-3E-3 of this code, modified by the West Virginia Board of Medicine to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on October 25, 2021, relating to the West Virginia Board of Medicine (Registration to Practice During Declared State of Emergency, 11 CSR 14), is authorized.
(h) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of 30-3-7 of this code, modified by the Board of Medicine to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 16, 2021, relating to the Board of Medicine (Telehealth and Interstate Telehealth Registration for Physicians, Podiatric Physicians and Physician Assistants, 11 CSR 15), is authorized with the amendment set forth below:
On page seven, by striking out all of subsection 7.4 and inserting in lieu thereof a new subsection 7.4 to read as follows:
7.4 Nothing in this rule requires a practitioner to use telemedicine technologies to treat a patient if the practitioner, in his or her discretion, determines that an in-person encounter is required.;
And,
On page nine, subsection 8.4, by striking out the words “based solely upon a telemedicine encounter”.