Access to care has expanded and telehealth has transformed care delivery and erased geographic boundaries. Since the NLC’s initial launch, advances in technology and an increasingly mobile nursing workforce and patient population have created the need to break down barriers to interstate practice.
The NLC includes important patient safety features such as facilitation of the sharing of licensure, investigative and disciplinary action information among member states. Along with a majority of state nurses associations, hospital associations and health care facilities in every state overwhelmingly support the NLC. Implemented in 2000, the NLC fosters public protection and access to care through the mutual recognition of one state-based license that is enforced locally and recognized nationally. Online Telehealth Applications – Please go to MQA Online Services to see if your profession application is online.Removing barriers to cross-border practice, the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) is an interstate agreement allowing a nurse to have one license and the privilege to practice in other compact states. Out-of-State Telehealth Provider Registration in Florida is for health care practitioners licensed outside of Florida ONLY.Ĭurrent Florida licensees are able to provide telehealth services to patients in Florida without additional licensure please do not apply for Out-of-State Telehealth Provider Registration in Florida. After making all of your selections from the drop-down menus click on the blue “Select” button.
Then from the “Choose a Board/Council” drop-down menu, select “Out-of-State Telehealth Providers.” Next, select your profession from the “Choose a Profession” drop-down menu. To apply online, login to the MQA Portal at Login Option – MQAServicesPortal (state.fl.us). Or in the “Documents” link at the bottom of the page. Complete the Out-of-State Telehealth Provider Registration application online, or submit the paper application, found at Out-of-state health care practitioners must be registered with the Florida Department of Health to perform telehealth services for patients in Florida. Signed by the Governor on June 25, 2019, this law became effective on July 1, 2019. The law also authorizes out-of-state health care practitioners to perform telehealth services for patients in Florida.
During the 2019, legislative session, Florida passed into law Chapter 456.47, Florida Statutes, which established standards of practice for telehealth services, including patient evaluations, record-keeping, and controlled substances prescribing.
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