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The visit / Fountain Hills

# What would getting care involve?

Think of the visit as a chance to describe a problem, hear the options and ask what happens next.

## Bring the question you want answered

Put the reason for your search in writing. Is it a health concern, a treatment name or an offer you saw?

Take a list of your medicines and any records you want to discuss with the person examining you. Note what you hope would change.

Ask what options fit that concern. Include the option of leaving the visit without a prescription.

## An online visit still needs an assessment

Telehealth is care given remotely rather than in the same room.

As of October 3, 2026, Arizona does not require each telehealth prescription to follow an in-person examination.

The examination still needs to fit the health concern. The person examining you must have permission under their licence to give that care. Rules for the exact medicine still apply.

Ask whether this person can prescribe the medicine and whether it needs an in-person examination.

Arizona requires the person giving medical care to decide whether remote care suits the situation.

A request on a website is not an examination. It also does not, by itself, mean a doctor has taken you on as a patient.

Ask how you can put your own questions to the person assessing you.

Open the sources for this answer

- [Arizona telehealth examination rules](https://www.azleg.gov/ars/36/03602.htm)

- [Arizona rule on choosing remote or in-person care](https://www.azleg.gov/ars/36/03605.htm)

- [Arizona medical examination requirements](https://www.azleg.gov/ars/32/01401.htm)

## Understand consent and any tests

Informed consent means hearing what is proposed and agreeing to it.

Arizona usually requires consent before telehealth care; spoken consent must be recorded, as of October 3, 2026.

Ask what a test would answer, where it would happen and whether it changes the cost.

The national medical-board group’s guidance says the person giving medical care must arrange needed tests or send the patient elsewhere for them.

That is guidance from a group of boards, not a separate Arizona law.

Open the sources for this answer

- [Arizona consent and privacy rules](https://www.azleg.gov/ars/36/03602.htm)

- [Medical-board guidance on remote evaluation](https://www.fsmb.org/siteassets/advocacy/policies/fsmb-workgroup-on-telemedicineapril-2022-final.pdf)

## Leave with a follow-up plan

Ask who answers questions after the visit. Find out how to contact that person and the price of another visit.

If a medicine is proposed, ask for its exact name, why it fits your situation and what problems to watch for.

Ask the pharmacy to explain the written instructions.

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