Does Arizona require telehealth consent?

The treating provider must obtain verbal or written informed consent, including electronically, before delivering care by telehealth. Verbal consent must be documented in the medical record. Emergencies and consultant image reads are exempt.

Arizona Telehealth Laws: Registration, Consent and Prescribing

Verified October 8, 2026 against the statutes and regulations cited below. Research, not legal advice. All states

What operators miss in Arizona

Payment parity covers audio-video visits for all services and audio-only visits only for behavioral health and substance use disorder services; it does not apply to visits on a payer-sponsored platform.
Arizona law bars using telehealth to provide an abortion.
Telehealth-only providers outside Arizona do not count toward a payer's network adequacy unless they also provide in-person care in the state or within 50 miles of its border.

Does Arizona have a telehealth registration for out-of-state clinicians?

Lets a clinician with a full, unrestricted license elsewhere treat patients located in Arizona by telehealth. The registrant may not open an Arizona office (outside a multistate group with an Arizona licensee) or see Arizona patients in person, and must report encounter counts annually.

Name: Out-of-state health care provider of telehealth services registration
Who can use it: Health care providers licensed in another state in professions Arizona licenses, registered with the comparable Arizona board

Citation: A.R.S. § 36-3606

When can an out-of-state clinician treat Arizona patients without a Arizona license?

Registration is not required for emergencies, consultation with an Arizona licensee who keeps authority over the patient, after-care for a procedure done in person in another state, a home-state primary care or behavioral health provider treating a non-resident, or fewer than 10 telehealth encounters a year.

Exception for follow-up care with an existing patient
Exception for consultation with a licensed physician

Citation: A.R.S. § 36-3606

Can a patient relationship start by telehealth in Arizona?

The examination needed before prescribing may be done by telehealth with a clinical evaluation appropriate to the patient and condition. Audio-only counts as telehealth only when audio-video is not reasonably available because of the patient's functional status or technology limits.

Citation: A.R.S. §§ 32-1401(27)(tt), 36-3601

What limits does Arizona put on prescribing by telehealth?

Boards may not require an in-person exam before prescribing, except for Schedule II drugs, which may be prescribed only after an in-person or audio-visual examination. Out-of-state registrants must register with the Arizona PDMP before prescribing a controlled substance.

Schedule II only after an in-person or audio-visual examination; out-of-state registrants must register with the Arizona CSPMP first.

Citation: A.R.S. §§ 36-3602(E), 36-3606(A)(2)

Does Arizona require its own controlled-substance registration?

Out-of-state telehealth registrants must register with the Arizona Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program before prescribing a controlled substance.

Do private payers in Arizona have to cover telehealth?

Private-payer telehealth coverage law
Explicit payment parity

Citation: A.R.S. § 20-841.09 and companion sections 20-1057.13, 20-1376.05, 20-1406.05

How does Arizona treat the corporate practice of medicine?

Adding Arizona to your telehealth practice?

A State Expansion Pack applies Arizona's rules to your service line and lists what changes in your workflow before the first visit. We also file telehealth registrations for physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Arizona Telehealth Laws