CTeL Issues Credentialing and Privileging Report on Proposed Rule from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

On May 26, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled its long awaited proposed rule that would make changes in CMS’s Conditions of Participation (CoPs) as they apply to the credentialing and privileging of telehealth providers.

The CMS rule makes numerous changes in the CoPs that are intended to allow a streamlined procedure for the credentialing and privileging of telehealth practitioners at the originating site (location of the patient).  Most importantly, the proposed rule seeks to permit the originating site to use the credentialing and privileging decisions of the distant site (location of the practitioner) under certain circumstances.

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