Is an exam required before a patient can be treated in Rhode Island?

These claims survey the unprofessional conduct section of the medical practice chapter, not a telehealth-specific statute, and should be read that way. What they establish is the standard the treatment itself must meet however it is delivered. Incompetent, negligent or willful misconduct in the practice of medicine is unprofessional conduct, and the statute says in terms that this INCLUDES the rendering of medically unnecessary services and any departure from, or failure to conform to, the minimal standards of acceptable and prevailing medical practice in the licensee’s area of expertise as determined by the board — and that the board need NOT establish actual injury to the patient to find it. Offering, undertaking or agreeing to cure or treat disease by a secret method, procedure, treatment or medicine is separately unprofessional conduct, as is making willful misrepresentations in treatments. The remote question is now surveyed, and it is answered in the board’s own rule rather than the statute. 216-ricr-40-05-1 § 1.5.9(H)(2) holds an online treatment or consultation recommendation — a prescription issued electronically included — to the same standards of appropriate practice as a face-to-face one, treats a prescription based solely on an online questionnaire without an appropriate evaluation as unprofessional conduct, and says an asynchronous evaluation without a contemporaneous real-time interactive exchange is not appropriate. What these claims do NOT survey is any intake requirement specific to cosmetic medicine; confirm that with the board or counsel.