---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 254c–18"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "254c–18"
heading: "Telemedicine; incentive grants regarding coordination among States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/254c-18"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter II — General Powers and Duties"
  - "Part D — Primary Health Care"
  - "Subpart i — health centers"
---

# §254c–18. Telemedicine; incentive grants regarding coordination among States

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may make grants to [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) professional licensing boards to carry out [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) under which such licensing boards of various [States](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) cooperate to develop and implement [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) policies that will reduce statutory and regulatory barriers to telemedicine.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** For the purpose of carrying out [subsection (a)](#a), there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2002 through 2006.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 330L, as added Pub. L. 108–163, § 2(e)(1), Dec. 6, 2003, 117 Stat. 2021.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section deemed to have taken effect immediately after the enactment of Pub. L. 107–251, see section 3 of Pub. L. 108–163, set out as an Effective Date of 2003 Amendments note under section 233 of this title.