AMA submission to consultation on MBA Guidelines: Telehealth consultations with patients

The AMA’s submission encourages the MBA to ensure that the Guidelines are sufficiently tight that the provision of high-quality care is not compromised by, for example, entrepreneurial providers seeking to exploit loopholes on the one hand; and the need to not inadvertently deny patients the ability to access care that might otherwise be difficult or impossible to obtain on the other. This latter group would include patients in rural and remote areas, those who are immune-compromised and those who may need to access particularly specialised or sensitive services.