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State Medical Board of Ohio tells committee telehealth prescribing trends worry regulators; board outlines compacts and operational changes
Summary
State Medical Board Executive Director Stephanie Luca told the House General Government Committee the board is tracking rising telehealth prescribing trends, implementing an emerging-practice committee, and exploring use of automation and AI for complaint triage while noting confidentiality and out-of-state subpoena challenges.
Stephanie Luca, executive director of the State Medical Board of Ohio, provided the committee with an operational overview of the board and described new and growing regulatory challenges tied to telehealth and interstate licensure compacts.
Luca said the board licenses and regulates more than 103,000 health-care professionals, has roughly 83 staff across six departments, and has seen a 13% increase in licensees since 2019. She told the committee the board created an "emerging practice trends" committee in September 2024 to study rapidly changing care models — including ketamine clinics, telehealth prescribing, weight-loss medication practices, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and retail IV therapy — and that joint guidance with the Boards of Nursing…
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