Curogram Blog

Telemedicine in South Carolina has been getting more and more accessible to citizens over the years. Even though there’s still no parity law in SC, Palmetto State is a true telemedicine pioneer.

The State of Missouri first enacted its telemedicine parity law in 2013. Since then, Missouri has worked towards improving the accessibility of remote healthcare in the state, which resulted in the 2016 statute that expanded telehealth access to schools and patient homes.

Most of the limitations regarding telemedicine practice in Tennessee were removed with the update of the parity law in 2016. The practitioners from the Volunteer State got the chance to expand their scope of work in terms of geographic locations and the types of services they provide.

New Jersey adopted a telemedicine parity law fairly recently. The law was passed after a year-long debate by New Jersey’s legislators and came into effect on July 21, 2017. 

North Carolina is yet to embrace all the benefits telemedicine has to offer. The Old North State is a little behind when it comes to parity laws, and the telemedicine champions have been busy with their attempts to convince the authorities that remote care would push the struggling healthcare system in the right direction.

Georgia was among the first states in the U.S. to embrace telemedicine as a valid form of providing patient care, back in 2005. Over the following years, Georgia’s legislators and the state’s Medical Board invested considerable efforts in improving the accessibility and availability of remote medical care to patients in the state.