THE LEGAL (IM)POSSIBILITY FOR HEALTH INSURANCE OPERATORS TO OFFER TELEMEDICINE TO THEIR BENEFICIARIES. Danilo Lacerda de Souza Ferreira, Luciano Pereira de Souza, Fernando Reverendo Vidal Akaoui

Abstract

This study aims to assess the legal possibility of health insurance operators to offer their beneficiaries medical care via telemedicine. The recent controversy brought about by the now revoked CFM Resolution No. 2,227/2018, with numerous demonstrations against and in favor of telemedicine, raised the need to analyze whether the revocation of the aforementioned regulation is an impediment to the offer of telemedicine or whether there is a legal possibility that gives shelter to health insurance operators. The work will present the emergence of telemedicine, with brief outlines of its historical evolution and the concepts brought by the World Medical Association and also the regulations issued on the subject in Brazil. Keywords: Legal Possibility; Health Plan; Telemedicine. Abstract: This study aims to assess the legal possibility of health insurance operators to offer their beneficiaries medical care via telemedicine. The recent controversy brought by the already repealed CFM Resolution No. 2,227 / 2018, with numerous manifestations contrary to and favorable to telemedicine, aroused the need to analyze whether the repeal of said regulation is preventing the provision of telemedicine or whether there is a legal possibility shelter health insurance providers. The paper will present the emergence of telemedicine, with brief lines of its historical evolution and the concepts brought by the World Medical Association and also the edited norms on the subject in Brazil.