(a) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of 30-14-14 of this code, modified by the West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 24, 2021, relating to the West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine (Licensing Procedures for Osteopathic Physicians, 24 CSR 01), 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 Osteopathic Medicine to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 29, 2021, relating to the West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine (Osteopathic Physician Assistants, 24 CSR 02), is authorized.
(c) 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 Osteopathic Medicine to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 24, 2021, relating to the West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine (Practitioner Requirements for Controlled Substances Licensure and Accessing the West Virginia Controlled Substances Monitoring Program Database, 24 CSR 07), is authorized.
(d) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of 30-14-14 of this code, modified by the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 15, 2021, relating to the Board of Osteopathic Medicine (Telehealth Practice and Interstate Telehealth Registration for Osteopathic Physicians and Physician Assistants, 24 CSR 10), 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”.