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In this second Mark Five video, Mark Cushing, J.D. covers the complex subject of how Covid affected telemedicine VCPR policies. Fortunately, veterinary medicine was declared essential across all of the United States. Three different types of took actions that affected they did something about telemedicine VCPR policy:
- 17 states suspended their restrictions on creating a VCPR through telemedicine
- 10 states officially encouraged the use of telemedicine IF a VCPR was in place
- 3 states extended VCPR limits from 12 months to 18 months
Source: VVCA, November 4, 2020. Link. Will the changes stay in place or revert to pre-Covid policies? Cushing says we have 6 to 8 months of an actual laboratory in these 17 states in the United States. We also have the example from Ontario, Canada that has permitted the telemedicine VCPR for three years.
. . . for those three years there has not been one complaint, not one, that a pet was harmed or killed due to quote negligent use of telemedicine or the telemedicine VCPR.”