Medical Practice Act: health care providers: qualified autism service paraprofessionals

The law brings these paraprofessionals within the Medical Practice Act’s telehealth requirements and professional-conduct framework when they provide authorized services.

What the law does ​

• Adds qualified autism service paraprofessionals to the definition of health care provider for the Medical Practice Act.
• Applies existing telehealth consent, documentation, confidentiality, and professional-responsibility rules to them.
• Makes noncompliance with the telehealth rules unprofessional conduct.

Who it affects ​

• Qualified autism service paraprofessionals.
• Patients receiving telehealth services from qualified autism service paraprofessionals.
• The Medical Board of California.