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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="1-902" title_number="1" title_name="Definitions; General Provisions" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Teletherapy">
  <text>A health care practitioner may use teletherapy if:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>The health care practitioner complies with  any regulations adopted under this subtitle; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>The health care practitioner:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Establishes a patient–practitioner relationship with the patient for whom teletherapy is being used;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>Provides for the privacy of communications made through teletherapy; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>Addresses, to the extent practicable, the need to maintain the safety and well–being of patients for whom teletherapy is being used.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
