WEBINAR: CMS Hospital CoPs and TJC Telemedicine Standards
CMS Hospital CoPs and TJC Telemedicine Standards Telemedicine Credentialing and Privileging
Course Curriculum
CMS has conditions of participation (CoPs) interpretive guidelines for all hospitals regarding their telemedicine standards. The regulations and interpretive guidelines also affect hospitals accredited by the Joint Commission (TJC). This program will discuss the most problematic standards in the telemedicine interpretive guidelines.
The regulations cover the revised credentialing and privileging process for physicians and practitioners providing telemedicine services. The process is less burdensome and is now a smaller financial liability for hospitals. Attendees will learn about the regulations and interpretive guidelines as well as the responsibilities of the board, medical staff and hospitals to ensure compliance with the regulations.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Identify the CMS regulations and interpretive guidelines that are now part of the hospital conditions of participation (CoPs) on telemedicine credentialing.
2. Describe how CMS includes a mechanism for all hospitals to use proxy credentialing with Medicare-certified hospitals or other telemedicine entities.
3. Explain how a hospital must have a written agreement that specifies the responsibilities of the distant-site hospital to meet the credentialing requirements.
4. Identify the Joint Commission (TJC) leadership chapter standards on telemedicine.
Speaker
Sue Dill Calloway has been a nurse attorney and consultant for more than 30 years. Currently, she is president of Patient Safety and Healthcare Education & Consulting. She was previously the chief learning officer for the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation.