Telehealth Credentialing and Privileging: Minimizing Liability, Protecting Patient Privacy, Ensuring Quality Care
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will guide counsel to healthcare facilities and practitioners on CMS' rule and guidance for telehealth credentialing and privileging. The panel will outline the steps for providers to comply with the rule and ensure effective and confidential telehealth practices.
Outline
- CMS' rule on credentialing and privileging and lessons learned
- Requirements of CMS' rule
- Credentialing and privileging issues
- Regulatory compliance challenges
- Impact on healthcare facilities, entrepreneurs, and practitioners
- Revising medical staff bylaws and creating hospital policies
- Negotiating written agreements and minimizing risk exposure
- Monitoring telehealth practitioners to assess the quality of care
- Protecting patient privacy amid technological advancements
- Compliance strategies for new guidance and guidelines
- Understanding individual state requirements
- Evaluating the impact of new direction and guidelines
- Accommodating the use of telehealth technologies
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- Provisions to include in the agreement between the telehealth provider and the hospital
- Requirements for healthcare facilities and providers to implement the telehealth rule
- Steps for healthcare organizations to minimize the liability risks for the practice of telehealth through the credentialing, privileging, and monitoring of practitioners
Faculty
Christopher C. Eades
Attorney
Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman
Mr. Eades devotes his practice to medical staff governance, credentialing and peer review. As part of his practice, he... | Read More
Mr. Eades devotes his practice to medical staff governance, credentialing and peer review. As part of his practice, he regularly counsels clients on matters involving medical staff bylaws, accreditation standards, hospital licensure rules and the Medicare Conditions of Participation. Mr. Eades is routinely engaged by the firm's clients to assist with the drafting and implementation of Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement processes, peer review sharing arrangements, FPPE/OPPE processes and other medical staff policies and procedures addressing the conduct and competency of healthcare providers. Peer review confidentiality and peer review immunity are critical to effective hospital and medical staff quality review.
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