Adopted as Amended
2017-19
RESOLUTION
Subject: Physician to Physician Opinions
Submitted by: Greater Louisville Medical Society
Referred to: Reference Committee
WHEREAS, changing health care delivery systems and economic factors impact the
availability of highly qualified physicians most notably in specialized fields; and
WHEREAS, Kentucky is currently facing a significant shortage of physicians in the rural and
underserved areas of the state; and
WHEREAS, the need for efficient, cost-effective delivery of high quality medicine to rural and
underserved patient populations in Kentucky is more important than ever; and
WHEREAS, the requirement for any currently licensed out-of-state physician rendering a
physician-to-physician consultation via telemedicine to have a license to practice medicine in Kentucky
could curtail these types of consultations and, thus, limit rural and underserved patients access to high-
quality specialty care; and
WHEREAS, many states are now requiring physicians to have an interstate license, the
Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, in order to practice telemedicine in their states; and
WHEREAS, telemedicine is seen as a possible solution to the access of care issues currently
facing these patient populations; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the Kentucky Medical Association support allowing physicians licensed in
Kentucky to obtain opinions from physicians licensed in other jurisdictions without requiring the opining
physician to obtain a Kentucky license.
KMA House of Delegates
August 2017