Jump into this sheet Boston care checklists A reading guide for Boston Find your sheet Check a licence Read the bill On this sheet The checklist Reading notes Source drawer All sheets A sheet from the Boston reading path Match the online visit to your location. For a Boston appointment by screen or phone, make the place and the assessment clear before the visit. Check the visit you will actually have Name your appointment location, including the state, before the visit. Ask how your health history and any needed examination will be handled. Ask who arranges an in-person visit if the screen is not enough. If travel changes your location, raise that change before the appointment. The patient’s location counts The medical board’s position as of September 30, 2026 places an online visit in Massachusetts if the patient is physically in the state. That is why a service asks where you are. Its office location does not answer the location question for your visit. A screen can be part of care The Massachusetts policy checked September 30, 2026 allowed an online visit to come before a meeting in person. Another law may still require an in-person visit first. The policy applies the same care standard to an online visit as to a visit in person. Telemedicine is another word for care delivered at a distance. Ask the service whether your care requires an in-person visit first and which rule applies. This guide cannot decide that for an unnamed treatment. The assessment still has substance The board’s prescribing policy, checked September 30, 2026, calls for an adequate health history, a fitting examination and recorded findings, including for online prescriptions. Ask how those parts fit into the proposed appointment. “I filled in a form” does not tell you what a clinician has reviewed or what they still need to ask. Next sheet · Compare the visit formats Open the source drawer These are medical board policies. Other applicable law can add requirements; the policy does not erase those requirements. Massachusetts board policy for telemedicine Massachusetts prescribing policy Keep reading Care routes A Boston guide to keep beside your questions; this site is no clinic or medicine shop. All the reading sheets Home Before you start First product check Person and licence Massachusetts visit checks Care routes Medicine details Specially prepared medicine Evidence checks Full cost Payment questions Follow-up plan Pause or get help Questions to take Prepare the visit Words to look up Official desks Read this sheet as text Text reading index Back to the top