Gain an understanding of telemedicine issues and legal challenges for medical service providers.
This topic is intended to provide you with an up-to-date overview of telemedicine legal and regulatory issues as well as basic strategies to practice legally and ethically. This material will not only outline national trends but also use state-specific examples to illustrate points. Topics included in this overview will include a basic introduction to definitions, interjurisdictional practice, informed consent, screening; other documentation; technology considerations with video conferencing, remote patient monitoring, boundary considerations and other potential liabilities; referrals; and reimbursement.
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Agenda
Introduction
- Terms and Definitions
- Interjurisdictional Practice for Delivering Clinical Services
- Privacy, Security and Other HIPAA/HiTECH Concerns
- Other Laws and Regulations (e.g., Informed Consent, Patient/Family Education, Continuity of Care, Mandated Reporting, Documentation)
Clinical Mistakes That Can Lead to Regulatory Board Violations
- Clinical Issues That Can Lead to Regulatory Board Violations (e.g., Ryan Haight and In-Person Assessment Requirements, Boundaries, Screening and Assessment, Definition of Professional Relationship, Handling Intrusions and Interruptions)
- Online Employers and How They Can Help or Hinder Your Professional Marketing Efforts
- Videoconferencing and Evidence-Based Practice
- Remote Patient Monitoring and Supporting Evidence-Base
Reimbursement Do's and Don'ts
- ICD-10
- CPT Codes
- Place of Service Codes (POS)
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OnDemand Course
This course was last revised on October 29, 2018.
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- CA MCLE 1.5
- Lorman Business Center, LLC. is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.5 CLE hours of participatory credit.
- WA CLE 1.5
- This program has been approved by the Washington State Board of Continuing Legal Education for 1.5 hours of A/V credit under the Law & Legal Procedure category.
To earn each credit Lorman offers through the OnDemand learning platform, you need to watch 100% of the program. Also, for certain credits you will need to fulfill additional requirements which will be displayed on the "credits" tab when viewing the course.
This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.
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Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D.
Telebehavioral Health Institute
- Executive Director of Telebehavioral Health Institute where she oversees the development and delivery of professional training in telehealth via an online, eLearning platform that has served clinicians from 73 countries who wish to learn legal and ethical issues related to telehealth
- Has trained more than 25,000 professionals seeking information about telehealth and telemedicine in the last two decades
- Author of four telehealth and telemedicine textbooks – and is now writing her fifth, which is for graduate students
- Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and leader in telemedicine consultation
- Served on a dozen professional association committees, task forces and work groups related to advancing telebehavioral health as well as establishing standards and guidelines for telebehavioral health at the American Psychological Association, American Telemedicine Association and the American Counseling Association
- Founder of the Journal of Technology in the Behavioral Sciences (JTiBS)
- Co-Founder and CEO of the Coalition for Technology in Behavioral Science (CTiBS)
- Chaired the CTiBS Telebehavioral Health Competencies Task Force
- Author of numerous peer-reviewed telehealth and telemedicine journal articles, including An Interprofessional Framework for Telebehavioral Health Competencies
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