On January 23rd, the New York State (NYS) Office of Mental Health (OMH) released a proposed rule for public comment in the State Register with revisions to 14 NYCRR Part 596, which contains OMH’s regulations on telemental health services (formerly called telepsychiatry services). The new regulations:
- Expand the types of practitioners who can provide telemental health services;
- Allow services to be performed in additional types of patient and provider locations; and
- Permit additional OMH programs, including Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS) and Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), to provide services through telemental health.
The attached document summarizes these proposed regulations. Once the regulations are finalized, OMH will publish further guidance on how providers may comply with these regulations while providing telemental health services in the future. The regulations are available here. Public comment will be received until March 10th.