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ACCEPTED: Final Revisions to Telemedicine Standards
The Centers for medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recentlyapproved The joint commission s Final Revisions to require-ments related to the credentialing and privileging of telemedi-cine practitioners in hospitalsand critical access joint commission s initial Revisions , approved byCMS in response to its May 5, 2011, medicare Conditionsof Participation (CoP) Final rule, were published in theOctober 2011 issue of Perspectiveson pages 6 9. The revi-sions appear in the elements of performance (EPs) of theLeadership (LD) and Medical Staff (MS) Standards related tothe medicare CoP requirements. In all, the new MedicareCoP requirements remove barriers to the use of telemedicinefor medically necessary interventions and uphold The JointCommission s existing practice of allowing an originating site(where the patient is located) to use the credentialing andprivileging information from a distant site when making finalprivileging decisions for Telemedicine joint commission s Board of Commissioners hasaccepted the Final changes, which are effective Revisions are shown in the accompanying box below, withnew text underlinedand deletions noted in Revisions will appear in th
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently approved The Joint Commission’s final revisions to require-ments related to …
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