The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
001
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MEDICAID
(Cite as: 33 V.S.A. § 1901g)
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§ 1901g. Medicaid coverage for home telemonitoring services
(a) The Agency of Human Services shall provide Medicaid coverage for home telemonitoring
services performed by home health agencies or other qualified providers as defined
by the Agency of Human Services for Medicaid beneficiaries who have serious or chronic
medical conditions that can result in frequent or recurrent hospitalizations and emergency
room admissions. Beginning on July 1, 2014, the Agency shall provide coverage for
home telemonitoring for one or more conditions or risk factors for which it determines,
using reliable data, that home telemonitoring services are appropriate and that coverage
will be budget-neutral. The Agency may expand coverage to include additional conditions
or risk factors identified using evidence-based best practices if the expanded coverage
will remain budget-neutral or as funds become available.
(b) A home health agency or other qualified provider shall ensure that clinical information
gathered by the home health agency or other qualified provider while providing home
telemonitoring services is shared with the patient’s treating health care professionals.
The Agency of Human Services may impose other reasonable requirements on the use of
home telemonitoring services.
(c) As used in this section:
(1) “Home health agency” means an entity that has received a certificate of need from
the State to provide home health services and is certified to provide services pursuant
to 42 U.S.C. § 1395x(o).
(2) “Home telemonitoring service” means a health service that requires scheduled remote
monitoring of data related to a patient’s health, in conjunction with a home health
plan of care, and access to the data by a home health agency or other qualified provider
as defined by the Agency of Human Services. (Added 2013, No. 153 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)