Dear Telehealth Leader,
On Thursday, June 10th, the Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law (CTeL) is hosting a FREE Webinar, titled Credentialing and Privileging: the Latest Status!
CTeL is excited to announce its guest lecturers for this seminar will be: Dr. Karen Rheuban, Professor of Pediatrics, Senior Associate Dean for External Affairs and Continuing Medical Education and Medical Director of the Office of Telemedicine at the University of Virginia; and Jeannie Miller, RN, MPH, Deputy Director of the Clinical Standards Group in the Office of Clinical Standards and Quality at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Dr. Rheuban and Ms. Miller were instrumental in bringing together advocates in telehealth community and key policymakers at CMS to address the issue of credentialing and privileging of telehealth providers. These continued efforts have led to a CMS proposed rule change to the Medicare and Medicaid Conditions of Participation. These changes, if adopted, would streamline the credentialing and privileging process for telehealth providers across the country.
The seminar will focus on CMS' recent announcement regarding the proposed rule change for the the credentialing and privileging process for telehealth providers.
A summary of that proposed rule change, excerpted from the Federal Register Notice, is listed below:
"This proposed rule would revise the conditions of participation (CoPs) for both hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs). These revisions would allow for a new credentialing and privileging process for physicians and practitioners providing telemedicine services."
Please click here for the link to the Federal Register Notice.
Please mark your calendar for next Thursday, June 10th, for an informative presentation of credentialing and privileging and the impact this proposed rule change will have on telehealth providers.
Click here to sign up for the June 10, 2010 CTeL Washington Live! Brown Bag Telehealth Seminar!
WHAT: The June CTeL Washington Live! Brown
Bag Telehealth Seminar
WHEN: Thursday, June 10, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (EDT)
WHERE: Webinar/or in person at the offices of
Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP
1500 K Street, NW, Suite 1100
Washington, D.C. 20005
*Please RSVP if you are attending in person.
